500 MPH Storm
- kinetic
- inventive
- epic-stakes
Neutral, breathless, measured action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →When an energy experiment goes haywire, a rash of massive hurricanes rips across North America. A high school science teacher must get his family to safety before the hurricanes merge, creating a "hypercane" with the power to wipe the US off the map.
Our read · 500 MPH Storm (2013) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · tv-movie entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of 500 MPH Storm
What watching it is actually like.
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