Not only is this film completely unwatchable and morally depraved...it WAS made with scab labor. The workers on the production went on strike for fair wages and benefits like the actors and production people were getting. It was refused to them and they were locked out. Everyday the union actors drove past the former crew and new crew members were transported in blacked out vans. I believe the quality suffered quite dramatically. They shot the majority of the rest of the shoot in one location inside guarded gates. This film is very badly made and I think it is a fair review to look at what happened during the making of it.A previous reviewer made false claims of what happened I believe to mislead people... I don't think it is a coincidence that he shares the same name as an actor in the film.

The military is having a billionaire create a weapon that controls the weather. It can be used for both good or bad. Even though the makers feel its ready to go the military wants one more test. When the device is turned on to a large hurricane something goes wrong and the machine unleashes horrible weather across the globe.This is a two part miniseries that plays like a 3 hour movie on DVD. I have yet to quite figure out why this needed to be so long since the story pretty much kicks in in the first ten minutes and just goes. By the end of the first half the film is close to wearing out its welcome and odds are you're going to be groaning that there is another 90 minutes to go. The cast which has Treat Williams, James Van Der Beek, Luke Perry and John Larroquette is fine but the rest isn't. The script is too long, the effects are passable and the camera is constantly in moving even when it shouldn't be.Its completely unwatchable, but at the same time I would keep this in reserve for those times when you want something to fall asleep to when you're sick in bed.

I thought I had watched some pretty bad mini-series, but this one was, without a doubt, the worst show I've ever seen. There were no redeeming qualities, not even with any of the actors. Can you guys be so hard up for money you have to perpetuate such garbage? The first hour wasn't great, but it wasn't nearly as bad as the second hour, in which it seems as though the producers felt they had to add non-related scenes, just to prolong whatever they deemed suspense. Even the unbelievable would have been bearable, had it not been for the constant efforts to to inject too many mini-series within a min-series. The airplane scene was completely out of sync with any of the story....there were no characters on the plane that were any part of the rest of the show, so there was no emotional investment in any of the passengers. As a matter of fact, this min-series was so disjointed, there's no emotional investment in any of the characters! Should you get the opportunity to watch this, my advice is don't!

There's supposed to be world wide extreme weather, and, if you wait long enough, the movie occasionally addresses that. Usually, however, it's a poor man's version of Oliver Stone's conspiracy tales. Also, the director tries to bedazzle you with a smoke and mirror approach, deluging the screen with cutesy-cutesy gimmickry.There's a rogue in the government who's heading an agency that's covertly conducting experiments to harness and control the weather. He's (naturally) a hawkish fanatic, who wants to use nature's power to blast everybody to smithereens. He has a bunch of puppets: a dumb 4-star general, some dumb scientists, an endless supply of dumb assassins, and a dumb script. Things get out of hand; (what else is new?) and this guy (when he doesn't play golf or romance a girl in his sinisterly dark office) ignores warnings that the experimentation is dangerous. You don't mess with Mother Nature, you know. But he doesn't care.The constant use of gimmickry, in place of solid directing, is harder to overlook than the goofy plot line. Whenever somebody's having a phone conversation, (and I mean every single time) this director cranks out split-screens: sometimes, two, sometimes three, sometimes four scenes at once. Often, one or more of the windows shows something that has nothing to do with anything. Then, there's the falsely accused guy chase. Every time he's running, they flash over-exposed shots into the sun, even though this is supposed to be taking place in the middle of the biggest rain storm of the century. If this is supposed to be the innocent guy's view, then he needs new glasses.The second-in-line scientist guy, who has no clue what he's doing, says the same line over and over (namely, that he has no idea what he's doing) when talking to the conspiracy leader. There are several disconnected stories, all with people continuously yelling at each other. A couple reconciling, an EMT with a pregnant wife, a female cop who has dumb superiors, and conspirators offing more victims than the lethal weather does.With all its problems, it's still somehow watchable, if only to laugh at. The actors try their best with the mess they're given, and the whole thing is a mindless diversion. It's certainly a better watch than some of the other summer replacement programming out there.