Metal Tornado

Just Plain Awful!!!
Okay, I watched this last night with my fiance and a buddy of mine. The opening credits hadn't even finished rolling and already I was apologizing to them for picking such a horrible stinker of a movie.

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Okay so the 3D graphics in this "movie" look like something that was made on someone's laptop in an afternoon using software from the 90's. Seriously, when you see the satellites and the energy collectors and the tornadoes, they are just so lame and goofy looking that you can't help but laugh at them!

The storyline is pretty stock and cookie-cutter. Some company has put all their money into this program and if it fails they'll go under. But at the VERY beginning there is this guy who is the head high science guy or something and he's shouting into the phone that the process is flawed and to shut the project down and if they don't that people will die. But they decide to ignore him, cuz after all what...

"I'm peaking over here!"
I appreciated that this movie never attempted to be more than it was, cheap popcorn fare. It isn't a masterpiece of Sci-Fi by any stretch. The plot is purely by the numbers, following the same formula that most of these movies do: bad science runs amuck with an ill-advised project that the military then has to come in and rectify. This is one of those dopey scenarios where everyone knows something crucial but they either hide the facts, dismiss the facts, or refuse to share the facts with anyone else. The disaster in question could have been solved immediately if all the right people just sat down and talked about it rather than waiting until things got out of control.
The FX is what you'd expect from computer work. The characters rigidly follow the usual stereotypes: a greedy boss (Greg Evigan), the reluctant hero (Lou Diamond Phillips), and the love interest who isn't a damsel in distress (Nicole Deboer). There's also the added tension of a slacker son, a widow who knows...

ROGUE MAGNETIC FIELD
This made for TV movie boasts the same fine quality production we have come to love in these masterpieces. Lou Diamond Phillips stars as a young looking Michael Edwards who works at Helios World. The company has a plan to extract energy from upper level ionic particles due to solar flares. (Light takes 8 minutes to travel from the sun to the earth. These flares take far less time.) Once captured, the energy is beamed to the earth as blue electromagnetic waves.

Unfortunately things don't go as planned. It creates an electromagnetic tornado that attracts anything metal, regardless of its magnetic properties...and chainsaws keep operating! While LDP is attempting to save the countryside of rural Pennsylvania he has to deal with the problems of single parenthood and trying to date fellow co-worker (Nicole de Boer).

The movie intensifies as LDP must hurry to come up with a way to save Philadelphia and France! Why do I not feel the intensity?

Fairly awful...

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