Tornado Valley (2009)

The DVD cover art is very misleading, it depicts a tornado in city that hurls a car that is about to fall on an observing child, that never happens in the movie. What made me chuckle was the tag line "this movie will blow you away", the only thing this film does is blow my expectations away.This film is more about a family drama revolving around a tornado tragedy rather than something along the lines of a large scale disaster.While this film isn't bad it disappointing to me because of how the flashy DVD box cover art tricks the wandering eye. The tornado sequences is what allowed me to get through the film since that's what I've been wanting to see, for what the film is worth it's a decent drama film though it tends to stumble in some places.

I have seen worse than Twister Valley, but I did think that it was an awful movie with little if anything to redeem it. Visually, once you get past the choppy editing and the dully-lit production values, what really sank Twister Valley were the tornado effects, which are terribly cheap in look and perhaps even the worst tornado effects I've seen. The music fails to give any life or even tension to the film, likewise with the muffled sound effects. Add to that clichéd characters(even for Lifetime), stilted writing and a story that is predictable and maudlin and you have a furthermore bad movie. But the lack of atmosphere, suspense or tension also hindered it, as well as the acting, which is unnatural and not even showing any real sense of fright or any other emotion to what's happening. All in all, awful. 2/10 Bethany Cox

WOW!.. from the get go u will think.... "what the.." then... "get off n run stupid!..." then.. "just grab her little butt n run!!..." THEN......"why the hell am I still watching this?!.." The way the storm came over the trees WITHOUT displacing them in any kind of way is laughable! Maybe this is a comedy... Who knows.I do know this movie is lame from the beginning. I'd be embarrassed to be associated with this movie. I assume this is a 'foot in the door' for some new young actors to get their face out there or for some desperate actor taking on whatever role they can to grab some money to make ends meet.. Cause DAMN!!! really???!!XP

I wasn't really gripped by this film and my attention wandered. I think the plot goes something like this: Little girl who lost her mother to a tornado grows up to be a TV weather person. She returns home and deals with the past and the present. At the same time the government is tentatively setting up an agency to monitor tornadoes. It all comes together in the end for big tornado that once again threatens the now grown up girl and her loved ones.Bland TV movie like story is a great deal of talk bookended by a tornado at either end. For me the film was lost when the tornadoes turned out to be rather weak CGI effects that never really look threatening. One would have thought that a film about tornadoes would have spent some money on making them seem menacing, but thats not the case. The rest of the film is okay but you really won't care because there is no pay off with a threatening storm.I'm take a pass.