"Into the Storm" is an impressive special effects show with tornadoes that are actually frightening. My home and neighborhood was struck by a F2 strength twister about 10 years ago and while that is a small to mid-sized tornado, I can attest that it is scary. It makes me wonder if it would be possible to make a movie about a big storm, complete with Horror-genre tone.

This contained some amazingly violent strikes by huge tornadoes ripping through a small mid-western city. I don't know why a city of its size would have an airport with jumbo jets sitting on the runway, but it sure looked cool.

The acting was awful and all of the characters were uninteresting. The build up to the big storm was almost non-existent and there was really no suspense to speak of. Some teenyboppers almost drown in the basement of an abandoned paper mill which was about the only real nail-biting segment of the movie. There was a shocking moment when a man gets lit on fire and is sucked up into a vortex. I laughed uncomfortably over the craziness of it. I absolutely despised two drunken idiots who somehow managed to elude certain death. This comic relief was not necessary and was ridiculous.

It's been said too many times before but it is possible to turn off your brain and take in the spectacle of disaster presented by "Into the Storm".