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Ayn BlackFox reviews: Metal Tornado
12 years ago
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Ayn BlackFox Reviews: Metal Tornado.
Netflix always knows how to bring out the best in me. I’m not sure if it’s that I’m just that predictable or am I just overly curious about things? Any who after being woken up by a crying baby at 4am who wanted her bottle of powered breakfast, I decide to get on Netflix to see if I can find something to entertain my brain once the house grandma came to retrieve the baby to play C.N.A for the next few minutes. After scrolling through the various menus of shows and movies previously watched by family member and the suggestions that followed, my mind stopped me at a movie that I had seen several times before but would always pass up to watch a show that fueled my space travel interest or something more…furry. That movie…was “Metal Tornado”.
Now seeing that Lou Diamond Phillips was starring in it, I excepted at least a B- performance along with the cast of others whose names I didn’t recognize like the voice actors from Call of Duty. Without a second more of thought, the play button was pressed and I curled with the blanket ready for the unexcepted and the barfs in case the movie was worst than I thought.
The movie started off quite strong, showing the issue if overused, “Energy Crisis” and a company who has found a way to remedy the issue. Cool! As they are talking how they are going to use the power of Solar Flares to charge a power station, I’m OK kind of cool in its own way. When they show the collector satellites, the science bug in starts buzzing like a Toyota engine at 8000rpms trying see if it was legitimately possible or just a bunch of Sci-fi, make-stuff-as-we-go kind of technology, ahem, Star Trek. I found interesting that how simple it seemed but yet so creepily complex like the instruction book for a smart phone. I was enjoying what the movie was offering, good effects, strong start to the story and decent actors. That was until within the ten minute mark, where “character of conflict” makes an appearance. Wait, 10 minutes into the movie and we already have a disaster? What the hell?
I have to give to the writers, they had me caught until that part and movie immediately lost 10 points of a possible score of 100. Despite this early movie death and spawn of the conflict that will be the centerpiece of the movie, I continued to watch hoping that there will something to make up for the rather odd spoiler. It tried it’s best until there was a father-son conflict and I let that sigh which meant, there went the neighborhood for this movie. I figured this kind of mixed conflict was always the down fall of a the story because it normally leads to some graphic scene that will be flooded with enough tears to put Niagara Falls out of business.
The next few scenes got interesting as the technology that was created to be the end of the energy crisis is put the use and like a coal train at 70 mph without it’s air brakes or anyway to stop the conflict starts and thanks to some cheap effects the true conflict is spawned, like it was a Final Fantasy summon called to wreck havoc on small town USA…in the case Pennslyvania. This where I start to hate writers who feel that the only way to keep the story strong is give us an overweight CEO who seeks more fortune and fame than Bill Gates and acts like a complete jack wagon. It makes you wonder who the guy from the earlier who met his demise is connected to the whole thing or was he just strung long to advance the plot’s conflict? Anyway, I suspected some connection would be made once Fatass McRichPants figures out what a monster he created from his own stupidity is about to do.
As the black ops style denials about the impending doom continue, story continues showing how our resident chaos bringer, building up its collection of part and power. Now people are starting to panic and it takes a bold Lou Diamond Phillips to go out and see what the hell is going on. It takes a few odd driving scenes and a couple of phones to love interest of the movie but let’s not go there, and they are able to locate the deadly spawn of metal. This was the only cool part of the whole movie, the destruction! I will admit the sole collection of metal objects was a little monotone but once it started building up, the fun began.
I was hoping for some outrageous death but the movie spared me the time just to tease with close shaves and reason’s I’m going to start wearing footgear in real tornadoes. However there was one interesting moment where someone becomes the next “as seen on TV” product but overall it was just walk in the wind. I have to hand to the producers for adding a creepy church minister, that me smile for a moment thinking as to what he really about to do. Anywho, the movie drags on a little her but they very untimely solution, not going to spoil this part.
After showing the Flubber CEO what was caused the whole thing, after he denied it so many times, he finally releases what he has down and scrambles to find a solution. As much I was ready for the climax of the movie, it kept on an edge a little as the solution quickly showed its weakness. I was “oh no that didn’t work as planned” but the movie quickly showed me it was going to rebound and faster than two virgins in the back of a car, the climax came and went in just a few seconds. Wait a second, where the falling action before closing the movie out? What happened across the sea? Where is all the celebration? Well damn “Metal Tornado” you just left me hanging on to the chair and you waste away the exposition in a few short minutes? So much for my hopes in seeing some good after the storm effects and some ruins of what used to be civilized life.
Overall this movie was OK. If they cleaned up of the acting and the effects, this would have scored much higher than it did but at least it wasn’t a pile of crap. Ended a bit to easily for such a strong start but overall I will say it’s worth the watch if you’re just curious kind or have a knack for middle budget movies.
Ayn BlackFox's rating 7 of 10
Enjoy!
Ayn BlackFox Reviews: Metal Tornado.
Netflix always knows how to bring out the best in me. I’m not sure if it’s that I’m just that predictable or am I just overly curious about things? Any who after being woken up by a crying baby at 4am who wanted her bottle of powered breakfast, I decide to get on Netflix to see if I can find something to entertain my brain once the house grandma came to retrieve the baby to play C.N.A for the next few minutes. After scrolling through the various menus of shows and movies previously watched by family member and the suggestions that followed, my mind stopped me at a movie that I had seen several times before but would always pass up to watch a show that fueled my space travel interest or something more…furry. That movie…was “Metal Tornado”.
Now seeing that Lou Diamond Phillips was starring in it, I excepted at least a B- performance along with the cast of others whose names I didn’t recognize like the voice actors from Call of Duty. Without a second more of thought, the play button was pressed and I curled with the blanket ready for the unexcepted and the barfs in case the movie was worst than I thought.
The movie started off quite strong, showing the issue if overused, “Energy Crisis” and a company who has found a way to remedy the issue. Cool! As they are talking how they are going to use the power of Solar Flares to charge a power station, I’m OK kind of cool in its own way. When they show the collector satellites, the science bug in starts buzzing like a Toyota engine at 8000rpms trying see if it was legitimately possible or just a bunch of Sci-fi, make-stuff-as-we-go kind of technology, ahem, Star Trek. I found interesting that how simple it seemed but yet so creepily complex like the instruction book for a smart phone. I was enjoying what the movie was offering, good effects, strong start to the story and decent actors. That was until within the ten minute mark, where “character of conflict” makes an appearance. Wait, 10 minutes into the movie and we already have a disaster? What the hell?
I have to give to the writers, they had me caught until that part and movie immediately lost 10 points of a possible score of 100. Despite this early movie death and spawn of the conflict that will be the centerpiece of the movie, I continued to watch hoping that there will something to make up for the rather odd spoiler. It tried it’s best until there was a father-son conflict and I let that sigh which meant, there went the neighborhood for this movie. I figured this kind of mixed conflict was always the down fall of a the story because it normally leads to some graphic scene that will be flooded with enough tears to put Niagara Falls out of business.
The next few scenes got interesting as the technology that was created to be the end of the energy crisis is put the use and like a coal train at 70 mph without it’s air brakes or anyway to stop the conflict starts and thanks to some cheap effects the true conflict is spawned, like it was a Final Fantasy summon called to wreck havoc on small town USA…in the case Pennslyvania. This where I start to hate writers who feel that the only way to keep the story strong is give us an overweight CEO who seeks more fortune and fame than Bill Gates and acts like a complete jack wagon. It makes you wonder who the guy from the earlier who met his demise is connected to the whole thing or was he just strung long to advance the plot’s conflict? Anyway, I suspected some connection would be made once Fatass McRichPants figures out what a monster he created from his own stupidity is about to do.
As the black ops style denials about the impending doom continue, story continues showing how our resident chaos bringer, building up its collection of part and power. Now people are starting to panic and it takes a bold Lou Diamond Phillips to go out and see what the hell is going on. It takes a few odd driving scenes and a couple of phones to love interest of the movie but let’s not go there, and they are able to locate the deadly spawn of metal. This was the only cool part of the whole movie, the destruction! I will admit the sole collection of metal objects was a little monotone but once it started building up, the fun began.
I was hoping for some outrageous death but the movie spared me the time just to tease with close shaves and reason’s I’m going to start wearing footgear in real tornadoes. However there was one interesting moment where someone becomes the next “as seen on TV” product but overall it was just walk in the wind. I have to hand to the producers for adding a creepy church minister, that me smile for a moment thinking as to what he really about to do. Anywho, the movie drags on a little her but they very untimely solution, not going to spoil this part.
After showing the Flubber CEO what was caused the whole thing, after he denied it so many times, he finally releases what he has down and scrambles to find a solution. As much I was ready for the climax of the movie, it kept on an edge a little as the solution quickly showed its weakness. I was “oh no that didn’t work as planned” but the movie quickly showed me it was going to rebound and faster than two virgins in the back of a car, the climax came and went in just a few seconds. Wait a second, where the falling action before closing the movie out? What happened across the sea? Where is all the celebration? Well damn “Metal Tornado” you just left me hanging on to the chair and you waste away the exposition in a few short minutes? So much for my hopes in seeing some good after the storm effects and some ruins of what used to be civilized life.
Overall this movie was OK. If they cleaned up of the acting and the effects, this would have scored much higher than it did but at least it wasn’t a pile of crap. Ended a bit to easily for such a strong start but overall I will say it’s worth the watch if you’re just curious kind or have a knack for middle budget movies.
Ayn BlackFox's rating 7 of 10
