When a deep sea oil drilling rig breaks into the mantel of
the Earth’s crust the sudden release of heat creates a chain reaction of
heating the surrounding water and changing the climate of the surrounding area
creating a super cyclone that threatens the Eastern seaboard. This is the premise behind Super Cyclone
(2012) in which Ming-Na Wen is Dr. Jenna Sparks, a meteorologist, who is
brought in with her colleague Dr. Percy Cavanaugh (Andy Clemence) to help the
military get a hold of the situation.
Along for the ride is Travis Verdon (Nicholas Turturo), a petroleum
engineer whose rig is responsible for the disaster. The three of them must battle a plague of
escalating disasters in the hopes of avoiding a super cyclone that will
devastate the eastern seaboard and usher in irreversible global climate
changes.
Written and directed by Liz Adams the film suffers from a
plot that should have been condensed to a thirty minute film rather than
fluffed up to a feature. Sparks,
Cavanaugh, and Verdon seem to go from one disaster to the next all due to their
own “stupidity.” Turturo and Wen have no
chemistry together whereas Wen and Clemence do (which is a shame since they
have only a few scenes together). This
is a tedious film that lacks focus despite its simplicity. It’s not nearly as entertaining as it should
be for this type of film.
Disaster films should at least be entertaining but this film
falls flat in every way including the bad CGI but most importantly the film
suffers from what plagues most of these types of films which is a lack of
believing that the main characters are actually whom they claim to be in the
film. You never believe Turturo is an
engineer and Wen was better off a doctor of medicine in the hit T.V. show E.R.
than as a meteorologist . All in all,
this is an easily forgettable film with little to offer even the most die-hard
of bad CGI, disaster flicks.
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