Yay! I found another fun Asylum movie. Like AIRPLANE VS VOLCANO, this one's a low budget cheese-fest of a B-movie, replete with stock footage, cheesy CGI and more overacting than you can shake a stick at...and yet it also happens to be amusing and a fair bit of fun, given the zero expectations that anyone familiar with the studio will bring to it.
Ming-Na (an attractive Chinese actress who supplied the voice of MULAN in the Disney movie) plays a top scientist who must spring into action when the titular weather phenomenon brings menace to the western seaboard of the USA. Meanwhile, an oil rig turns out to have been built on top of a volcano (don't you hate it when that happens?), which means there's all kind of disaster taking place constantly.
The level of drama is high, as is the level of cheesy acting, so I was laughing half the time. My favourite part of the movie sees Ming-Na and her colleagues embarking on a journey where they're confronted by seemingly every type of extreme weather event: hail, earthquakes, floods, cyclones, and of course burning fireballs from the heavens. It's all ridiculous but at the same time the narrative is so fast-paced that you don't have time to pay attention to how poor it is. That's why I liked it...
Ming-Na (an attractive Chinese actress who supplied the voice of MULAN in the Disney movie) plays a top scientist who must spring into action when the titular weather phenomenon brings menace to the western seaboard of the USA. Meanwhile, an oil rig turns out to have been built on top of a volcano (don't you hate it when that happens?), which means there's all kind of disaster taking place constantly.
The level of drama is high, as is the level of cheesy acting, so I was laughing half the time. My favourite part of the movie sees Ming-Na and her colleagues embarking on a journey where they're confronted by seemingly every type of extreme weather event: hail, earthquakes, floods, cyclones, and of course burning fireballs from the heavens. It's all ridiculous but at the same time the narrative is so fast-paced that you don't have time to pay attention to how poor it is. That's why I liked it...