Storm (1999)

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

***SPOILERS*** Not all that bad direct to video movie involving the manipulation of storms and hurricanes by a rouge unit of the CIA.It's this playing God that in the end jeopardizes the city of Los Angeles when the person in charge of this black ops operation Gen. James Roberts, Martain Sheen, is found out, in what he's really up to, by the two top man running the project Doctors Ron Young & Daniel Platt, Luke Perry & David Moses. It turns out that Gen. Roberts has been involved in weather manipulation since he was in Vietnam and now he's doing it here in the US. This has cost over the years hundreds of people to be killed in a number of man made hurricanes, like Andrews in August 1992, that the General had created with this gadget of his, an in flight electro magnetic generator,in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.Working secretly with the major oil companies Gen. Roberts is now, without those under him knowing, planning to start up a major five category hurricane, or typhoon, on the west coast of Mexico. This mad plan on Gen. Roberts' part is to devastate that country and force it to both come to he US for emergency aid as well as stop, which is the real reason of Roberts plan, from nationalizing it's oil wells! An act that in effect would put the international oil companies, that Roberts is working for, out of business!Not as far fetched as you would think since manipulating the weather is a fool proof method of causing havoc on a nations population and military establishment without, being that it's an Act of God, those doing it being blamed for it! And thus rule out military retaliation by the targeted country.It's when both Dr. Young and Platt get wind, no pun intended, of Gen. Roberts insane plan of wiping out an entire Mexican town with it's thousands of inhabitants that they go into action in bringing his mad dream of both controlling the weather and thus the world to an end.Like a genie let out of a bottle once Gen. Roberts plan was set into motion it was almost impossible to stop it. Dr. Platt in refusing to both intensify and then guide, with the electro magnetic generator, the Pacific typhoon to make landfall is murdered, or orders of Gen, Roberts, by his co-pilot before he could guide the storm back to sea.***SPOILERS*** It's now up to Dr. Young who at the time is under arrest, in him being set up by Roberts in a hit and run accident, to both finish the job that the ill fated Dr. Platt started! With the now rampaging killer storm, with the out of control electro magnetic generator guiding it, heading straight for Los angles it's up to Dr. Young to keep it from making landfall and wiping the city off the map. It's also in Gen Roberts best interest to get Dr. Young freed to do the job or else he'll have to answer for the deaths of thousands of American citizens. What Roberts is also planning is to disappeared, or have murdered, Dr. Young after he completed his mission!Better then you would expect since we've been hit by a number of 3 4 and 5 category hurricanes, like depicted in the movie, over the last few years since the film "Storm Tracker" was released. Like were told in the movie, by non other then the deranged Gen. Roberts, that the weather can be the most effective weapon of mass destruction in history. In that its both impersonal and deathly effective at the same time. It was the very ironic fact that Gen. Roberts grandiose plan of using the weather to achieve his, and those who employ him, aims had finally been made public, by Dr. Young, that had him offed by the very people that he was working for!

Luke Perry, (Ron Young) is required to give his experience to a renegade Air Foerce General Roberts, ( Martin Sheen) who is involved in a top secret government operation in order to control all the weather of this entire country. The secret weapon is able to be launched from an aircraft into the eye of a massive weather front off California which has great winds of over 400 mph. This storm is headed for Los Angeles and there are many struggles that happen aboard this aircraft and many people fight against each other. There is even time for men and women to find love and close relationships. Great film from 1999, enjoy.

This movie is not worth the time taken to watch it. Luke Perry should stick to acting in soaps, where by he can relay on his looks to see him true the show. I would say that Martin Sheen was the most convincing of the whole lot and was a waste that he had agreed to act and degrade his name with such trash such as Storm. The story takes the line of an UN REAL plot where they are playing god by manipulating the weather. Special effects and acting is below par and like I said it is fit for the bin and no where else.

I think the summary says it all. I can't believe I rented it.I don't normally write scathing reviews of movies but I wasted six bucks and nearly two hours on it, so it has to be done.You might expect this kind of movie from Luke Perry, but I thought that Martin Sheen might have been above doing movies like this one.Generally, the standard of acting was terrible. Perry should stick to teeny-soaps, where acting is not a prerequisite. Whoever cast him as a meteorologist should be flogged to death with a wet cat.Sheen is better but still unconvincing in the role of the renegade Airforce officer.The special effects were so fake you could practically see the fishing line. The last minute double-cross in the plot could have worked except for the wooden acting which killed it.In conclusion it's a waste of perfectly good video tape. I give it a great big ZERO out of ten.