Metal Tornado (2011) Movie Review, Trailer, Film Still and Poster

Canada 2010
Director: Gordon Yang
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Nicole de Boer, Stephen MacDonald, Greg Evigan, John Maclaren, Sean Tucker
Rating: -
Release Date: 22 July 2011
Running Time: 1 hour 31 minutes

The Movie Review

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METAL TORNADO
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Has anyone here actually watched this movie? It's actually different and a deviation is a good thing (and very welcomed) in a disaster genre. This Canadian TV movie is about a tornado that can suck all metallic objects! The movie opens with a dude got whacked computer chip board and then another dude almost got slain by flying chainsaw!

A scientist, Stephen Winters (Todd Duckworth), is figuring out how to create a new clean energy to overcome the World's energy crisis, unfortunately the experiment leaves a deadly error and he ends up got killed (the dude with the computer chip board above). However, the company who hired him, Helios World Inc, decides to go on with his flawed invention to suck up the sun solar flares and transform them into new clean energy. However, the error in the design gives way to 2% leakage which formed a magnetic field in a form of a tornado! But this 2% percent alone has the energy of 300 Mega Watts, enough to power 10,000 houses for a year!

But the ignorant people in Helios World are already overjoyed by the success and future lucrative deals that they dismiss any possible deadly errors, except for a responsible scientist named Dr. Michael Edwards (Lou Diamond Phillips) and his colleague/love-interest Rebecca (Nicole de Boer of NYC: Tornado Terror (2008)). As the rogue magnetic tornado moves along, casualties and destruction follows and now Michael and Rebecca have to think to stop this walking destruction agent before it enters a densely-populated cities and towns, including the lives of the people in Paris, France! What will they do?

There are many things that could've been tweaked to create more intensity and emotion in Metal Tornado, but unfortunately, the concept is the only thing that's keeping me interested. The amorous relationship between Michael and Rebecca should've been more developed, and oh my Nicole de Boer's performance is really really lacklustre, it seems someone forced her to be in the production. And Stephen MacDonald (as Michael's son) still has a lot more acting homework to do. But even if you won't care for what will befall to all the forgettable Tornado Fodder in Metal Tornado, the combination of editing, fast-pacing and interesting things that the Metal Tornado can do to civilization save the movie from being worst. The premise is very interesting, and it could've been a very memorable piece of cinema had it made with much bigger budget and more sophisticated CGI. But as a made for TV movie, Metal Tornado is a nice enough view in the afternoon if you are really into disaster pictures.