Keen with the extreme passion of studying tornado, Dr.Jo and her team of meteorological researcher created a device which has the capacity to measure the strength of the tornado. On one of such occasions she gets to put the device to test when a tornado hits Oklahoma.
Holds up against the noisy, busy, idiotically-scripted movies of today for all sorts of reasons [but] that does not excuse it from being a noisy, busy, idiotically-scripted movie in its own right.
Even more than with most of Michael Crichton's concoctions, this one conveys the overwhelming impression of a mechanical entertainment, a very high concept in which the characters and their problems seem like utterly arbitrary creations.
ESplatter
July 23, 2008
The action starts in the opening frame and never lets up.
An expert in making audiences squirm and twist, at making us feel the rush of experience right along with the actors, De Bont choreographs action and suspense so beautifully he makes it seem like a snap.