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An American company inadvertently unleashes a magnetic vortex on an unprepared world.An American company inadvertently unleashes a magnetic vortex on an unprepared world.An American company inadvertently unleashes a magnetic vortex on an unprepared world.
Nicole de Boer
- Rebecca
- (as Nicole Deboer)
Stephen MacDonald
- Nick Edwards
- (as Stephen Macdonald)
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Did you know
- TriviaAlthough it's mentioned by any character, a tornado is measured by its destructive force with the Fujita's Scale. It was named after Tetsuya Fujita, who in 1971 in collaboration with Allan Pearson created a scale to differentiate a twister according the wind speed:
F0: 60-117 km/h or 45-72 mph (light damage).
F1: 117-181 km/h or 73-112 mph (moderate damage).
F2: 181-250 km/h or 113-157 mph (significant damage).
F3: 250-320 km/h or 158-206 mph (severe damage).
F4: 320-420 km/h or 207-260 mph (devastating damage).
F5: 420-510 km/h or 261-308 mph (incredible damage).
F6: 510-610 km/h or 309-379 mph (altough initially Fujita scale have five marks, in 1999 a tornado located in Bridge CreekMoore, Oklahoma, devastated with a force more powerful never seen before. It was the only one F6 registered in history, despite The United States National Weather Service officially maintains that the Bridge Creek-Moore tornado was a F5, not F6).
- GoofsThe "$" on the coffee sign at the gas station follows the number rather than preceding it. This is not how monetary amounts are written in Pennsylvania (where the story supposedly takes place), but is true in Quebec (where the movie was filmed).
- Quotes
Michael Edwards: We have an anomaly with the magnetic field.
- ConnectionsReferences Reba (2001)
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Another national embarrassment!
First of all, it's a stinker. Secondly, it's a Canadian stinker. Fans of science-fiction pretty well agree that nobody has ever made a good sci- fi movie and there is nothing in this movie to challenge that axiom. But this has the added handicap of being a bad Canadian sci-fi movie. The story line is silly and predictable. The acting is wooden and clichéd. But even being awful could be forgiven if they had not used the Ottawa Valley to masquerade as Pennsylvania. Have these people no shame? They drape American flags over obviously eastern Ontario architecture and then run credits at the end about all the government support. This must be as big a source of puzzlement to foreign audiences as it is of embarrassment to Canadian ones.I suppose the problem is that our brilliant movie people (directors and actors both) go to Hollywood, leaving only the hacks and greenhorns to slurp at the public trough while grinding out artless and unoriginal bumpfh like this and posing as artists. This movie made me bored. It made me embarrassed. And it made me mad!
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- rps-2
- Sep 14, 2011
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- Металевий торнадо
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- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1
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