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malaise

(268,701 posts)
Wed Mar 14, 2018, 01:33 PM Mar 2018

Jeff Masters reviews The Hurricane Heist - best freaking laugh on the internet

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/hurricane-heist-movie-bad-meteorology-category-17-level

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The Hurricane Heist is a highly improbable but somewhat entertaining weather disaster movie--complete with impressive CGI special effects and bad meteorology--married to a mediocre bank heist movie, featuring shootings, explosions, and car chase scenes. The main character is Will, a Ph.D. Alabama meteorologist (played by British actor Tony Kebbell with a very bad Alabama accent). Will drives an armored weather chase vehicle dubbed “The Dominator”, which turns out to be remarkably impervious to both Category 5 hurricanes and bullets. Will teams up with tough ATF agent Casey to foil a bank robbery and rescue Will’s estranged brother, Breeze (!), who is taken hostage by the bad guys. The robbery occurs during the cover of Hurricane Tammy, which is expected to be a Category 2 hurricane when it hits the coast of Alabama, but ends up being a Cat 5—as predicted by our hero Will, but nobody else. (Spoiler Alert: If he’s such a great meteorologist, how come he never talks about the hurricane’s storm surge, and ends up getting totally surprised by it? Serves him right when the storm surge trashes his beloved “Dominator”! Also, what was he thinking when he tried to climb a 3-story high communication tower in the eyewall of a Category 5 hurricane? OK, OK, I guess it’s just because he’s a total stud, as demonstrated when he leaps from speeding vehicle to vehicle while racing though the eye of Hurricane Tammy).
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