Rating: Half-Full

 

Cast: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton

 

Director: Jan De Bont

 

Writers: Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin

 

Producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Ian Bryce and Michael Crichton

 

Music by: Mark Mancina

 

Song: Humans Being

Performed by Van Helen

Music and lyric by: Anthony, Hager, A. Van Helen, and E. Van Helen

 

Rated: PG-13 for intense depiction of very bad weather

 

Quote: “I gotta go Julia. We got cows.”- Melissa

 

Fun Fact: A jet engine from a Boeing 707 was used to generate wind in some scenes.

Synopsis: After the tornado killed her father when she was a little girl, Jo Harding became a storm chaser. But her she and her husband Bill had a difficult marriage and is about to get a divorce. Jo invented DOROTHY, a device that will collect data from the tornado. But soon get in rival with Jonas Miller, who has a similar device. None of the devices were successful but the chase is on to get the data.

 

The Review: The tornado had sucked up the storyline, but I love the opening scene. The visual effects steals the show. It is the disaster movie of the 90’s.