The main reasons for seeing any disaster movie are the effects and the destruction they wreak, and on these fronts Into The Storm absolutely delivers for its ($50 million) budget. The central father/son relationship veers perilously close to The Day After Tomorrow, and for the most part there is an attempt to treat the tornadoes with a more somewhat realistic approach that the obvious touchstone of Twister. However, there are distracting inconsistencies on two levels that undermine the overall effectiveness of the film: the first-person strategy - at times hugely effective in placing the audience right in the action - sits awkwardly with more generic disaster movie tropes, and tonally the film lurches all over the place (in a short space of time early on, the film lurches from family drama to Jackass to cheesy promo video to teen romance, for example), where clearly - with a script fix - a more grounded and consistent approach would have been very successful here. As with most disaster movies, the actual characters make very little impression, but the sheer power of the effects (both CGI and exemplary sound) creates interest.
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