You have some thousand year old entity who uses lightening to kill people. Why is not explained. Some guy shows up whose son was killed by this being and after being hit by the lightening he is immune to it. He builds a lightening rod structure on the top of a building trying to trap this being in a never ending void. There is also a woman whose son has been killed to open the movie and she is also immune. She has even faced the killer. There is the professor and his team who are tracking the storms but do not believe in the entity, well one does towards the end. He brings the shielded generator to the roof top because the one they have is not shielded. Kevin Sorbo plays the sheriff which is why I watched this movie. I really enjoy watching him. Anyway the contraption works, the killer is trapped in the void along with the old man. The mayor is a real piece of work. Typical smarmy small town politician. Not a bad movie all in all.

When I can't decide whether something is cliché, or if it's classic, I term it 'clichassic.' That much having been said, I found the dialogue of "Lightning Strikes" to be refreshingly unoffensive yet current, conscious and stirring, and the furthest thing from 'canned.' This is particularly important in an industry plagued with nonsensical artifices such as 128 mph kicks to the face at approximately .03 cm per second enhanced or replaced by an over-priced piece of software and a cameraman who can't hold still. For that matter, anyone who enjoys B-movies on the face value of laughing at B-movies would understand what I mean when I say this feature did not have me laughing. On the remote chance it is but a string of over-spun network-surplused-chatter -- which I am not suggesting nor do I have any reason to believe, it certainly is worth watching ... and at worst, well-conceived. A good 'listen.' That it has Kevin Sorbo in a serious part is simply a good sign and a healthy indicator of the state of the 'entertainment' industry. I fully intend to not only add "Lightning Strikes" to my personal collection, but to watch it again. Enjoy!

I would like to add a few more goofs to the ones already listed: Isn't it illegal to park in front of a fire-station?The sheriff's house is so far from town that you need a car to get anywhere (son is complaining that he can't go anywhere because his car still isn't fixed), but close enough that a half-dead woman from the hospital can reach it on foot in 5 minutes.If they are going to ride a van into a lightning storm, shouldn't they have tested it first?Why are they using a voltmeter? It is emphasized several times that it is extremely important to start the anti-lightning machine at the right "amperage": 1000 Amp's. And the machine is indeed started up at 1000 Volts.I have given it a 2 out of 10 because it was so funny.

The first 5 minutes of this movie caught my attention. It was downhill after that. Hunky Kevin Sorbo played the sad-eyed sheriff of a cardboard one-intersection town with an idiot mayor who sported cheesy bleached hair. Awful production values throughout. The townspeople strolled casually through the streets, ignoring the sidewalks, and even the annual Pumpkin Festival was held in the same intersection. The storm-chasing scientist and his two grad student assistants were morons. ****Spoiler**** The monster had potential, but there wasn't even the usual low-budget explanation for his existence. The crusty monster-hunter was interesting but underused. I stuck around for the well-telegraphed climax--waste of time.