Review of NYC: Tornado Terror

Despite it looking the contrary, I don't take pride in criticising the majority of the SyFy channel's movies. Not all of them are bad actually, but even the best ones have flaws to them. While Tornado Terror is nowhere near SyFy's worst, it is down there among their many terrible movies. I have seen worse editing, but that is saying very little as it is very hackneyed here, and the lighting is dull even for a disaster movie. The special effects are also really awful, crude and very fake-looking and further suffer from heavy over-use. The script is unbearably corny, where I could have been biting my nails or admiring an intelligent line I was laughing unintentionally at the cheesiness at some of the one-liners. The story suffers from being very sluggishly paced and predictable in structure. This and how the effects are used throughout are the reasons why Tornado Terror feels so diluted on the suspense factor. The characters are irritating and not much is done to develop them, while the direction is sloppy and the acting leaves an impression that the actors had forgotten their acting lessons, if even that. On the whole, just terrible with no redeeming values. 1/10 Bethany Cox