Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This movie is so funny. It amazes me how many famous actors/actresses are in it. It's hilarious that they try to make it look like Chicago and various parts of the storm footage show palm trees! Some funny parts: Nancy McKeon saying vulnerable instead of vulnerable, the brother walking into the bank and asking quite matter of factly "what happened to Lindsay?", various images of obese people running from the storm, and pretty much everything Randy Quaid does. The special effects do not look real at all. If you watch this movie, go into looking for a laugh or two! It is pretty long going on for 174 minutes. Sometimes you think it won't end. But, all in all, it's fun for a cheesy film. If you're not looking for Academey Award winning quality acting - enjoy!

I will never again watch this thing. Currently it is on the SyFy channel with an hour left to go and I'm still trying to figure out how this thing even made t on air. Two storms are converging...big whoop Twister already did that and THAT movie was a heck of a lot better than this insanity. Who in the world says "Shot...with a gun!" What else would she be shot with? A pencil? And what in the world was little Miss Reporter thinking when she had to take the stairs up to her sister-in-law's apartment? Didn't they think a NORMAL person might think someone could be stuck in the elevator since the power was down? I'm not even going to comment on Diane West's character because I can't even think straight enough to make a comment.

Summary: A hodge podge of pseudo science, bad special effects and ill fitting stock footage doesn't make a good movie.Details: It stank. It really stank.I have nothing against Canadian made disaster movies set in the USA. Personally I'd like to see a Canadian disaster movie set in Canada some time, just to even the score. But if they are set in the USA they should look and sound like they are set in the USA. This had far worse American accents than usual. Jeff Sutton, who played Garth Benson the teen-age son of the diddling power company manager had such a STRONG Canadian accent that he couldn't keep in American for long enough to finish any of his dialog. I don't mean subtle points - I mean the stereotypical joke "ooot" for "out" sound.The stock clips used to make so much of the storm footage OBVIOUSLY weren't from near Chicago. The style of houses screamed deep South. The palm trees screamed Florida. It was comic.Many of the special effects looked like a computer game. To me the worst was the weather plane. It just looked really fake, like Microsoft Flight Simulator.A movie can get away with poor special effects and ill fitting stock footage if it has a good script and good actors. How many of us have seen wonderful classic movies that have poor staging by today's standards? The whole magic storm from Hades that was a mystic convergence of global warming just never made it. This one also fell flat on its rear end in the dialog department. It was both utterly serious deadpan and utterly unbelievable. It was emotionless. No highs, no lows. Add it horrid acting and you had a lead balloon of a movie.Save your time.

This is semi enjoyable as a piece of cheese, but that's about it.Honestly, the dialogue and most of the acting is downright laughable. Not to mention the obvious green screens.Thomas Gibson doesn't even attempt to sell any sort of performance whatsoever despite being the lead. The only ones who don't completely embarrass themselves in the acting department are McKeon, Dennehy, Quaid, Wiest and a few of the supporting players (the pregnant sister in law wasn't bad). Their dialogue might have been as dumb as the rest, but at least put in some sort of effort to try and rise above it.The first half was also just sort of boring. At least in the second half I was entertained by seeing how many secondary characters they could kill off.