The Hurricane Heist (2018)

Gulfport, Alabama?! Goodness. Gulfport is in MISSISSIPPI.

This movie is nowhere near Alabama or Mississippi.. As a person who is from Mississippi this was by far one of the most God Awful settings as anyone who has ever been to the Gulfcoast they know that nothing in this movie was even close and very poorly portrayed anything as to how it really is to go through a Hurricane.. Gulfport doesn't even have a 6 lane highway nor does the beach look anything like what they showed.. absolutely disappointed.. sad to Say but the plot really sucked for these actors..

"The Hurricane Heist" did pretty poor business when it was released to theaters. While a number of factors probably doomed it, ranging from poor marketing to no big stars in the cast, I think the ultimate reason that did it in was that for the most part it's very generic and unoriginal. Oh, there are a few new things here and there, but they are throwaway moments, and the screenplay apart from those moments goes down a very familiar road. You'll be able to predict most of what happens long before it actually unfolds on the screen. The movie might still have been saved with some skillful directorial touches, such as good action and suspense. But the movie feels surprisingly boring, even when the title weather activity is at its most fierce. The dull direction probably explains why none of the cast manages to perform in a way that catches our interest or sympathy. In the end, what we have here is a very uninspired B movie, albeit one with slicker production values than usual.

Maggie Grace is Casey, a federal agent tasked with delivering old money to a federal building for destruction. Arriving in a convoy of trucks - sitting next to Ralph Ineson (the guy who does the voice for the Dacia car adverts: "We don't do frivolity," ), with soldiers in the back toting a some kind of gatling gun - at a heavily fortified treasury building, with a massive vault, filled with tonnes of cash. How ever the heist happens, they're going to need a good crew and a solid plan that goes to plan. And like so many other films of its ilk, all that planning gets derailed by a "fly in the ointment,".I actually liked the three main characters. Toby Kebbell (Dr. Will Rutledge) and Ryan Kwanten (Breeze Rutledge) work well together as brothers who've decided to deal with personal tragedy in different ways. Likewise Will and Casey have their own similar pain that seems to drive their shared mission to derail the bad guys plot.Yet the bad guys seem more one dimensional. "Money is honey", one of the not so subtle guys in an evacuated town says, less than ten minutes into the film. Given the type of film it is, you know they're going to meet some grisly, weather related, end.And Ben Cross (Dixon) acts like he's still the Vulcan Sarek from the 2009 Star Trek reboot! Yet, the real star of the film is the storm. The actors are more like cannon fodder for the special effects team to hurl things at at great speed. Sure, that does mean you have scenes where cars and trucks are picked up like Tonka toys, while the characters are able to move around without even eye protection, but was willing to give it some license for a bit of variety from the normal gun fights. And that's the weakness here. It might be a good film on Discovery or National Geographic, where they could explore the storm in more detail, but here the action is contrived to set pieces where the storm will defeat the will of the humans. It's a no brain, pop corn film.