Marshal Phipps You thought sharks into tornadoes was crazy, wait until you see this. Under the name of Tornado Warning (not to be confused with the 2002 film) on the original DVD packaging and in a re-release under the name of Alien Storm (why it was re-released in the first place beats me) this film delivers cheesy fun that has a good mix of drama, comedy, and suspense about aliens taking the form of tornadoes and the attempts by the government and main characters to stop them.The tornadoes destroying Chicago reminded me of Category 6: Day of Destruction, whether it was coincidence or not I found it to be nice.I had some difficulty finding a region 1 DVD, when I bought it and watched the film again to refresh my memory since it's been over a year since I've seen it I felt like I got my moneys worth.

Frank Kneepkens I was in doubt to review this. It's so bad, I may have not enough words to reach the minimum for an IMDb review. Acting was terrible, like high school stage. I quit watching at (I think) near the end when they would signal the aliens with some recording from a laptop, or something. It's just an insult to the intelligence of the watcher. If you make SciFi, please make it somewhat plausible, that's what it's all about with SciFi. What the script writes came up with in this "movie"... it goes beyond common sense, together with the unrealistic setting and very poor CGI (only some alien light enhanced tornado, multiple times, that's all you see) it is a waste of time to watch this.

carl-monroe I watched because, Hey I'm a big fan of Kari Wuhrer, no matter what she is playing in. Well, she actually hasn't But, really she had two different outfits on when she got in the car she had white top and blue jeans, get's out the car and has a pink top and black pants...come on who is in charge of wardrobe..CUT!! But, seriously all and all not great, but not exactly horrible.. The special effects were good, the storyline was original.. The acting was OK, it's SYFY what do you expect, those of us that like Sci-Fi watch it because we like the idea of it all, not because of the realism.. So sit back and if you watch the movie, just watch it for what it is.. Entertainment...

Clay Loomis We all know the drill on SyFy channel movies. You can't compare them to anything other than previous SyFy channel movies. With shoestring budgets and B & C grade actors (mostly C), they crank out their "original" movies with regularity and zero surprises.Alien Tornado did not break this tradition. This one was just slightly on the low side of the scale. The script was ridiculous, the characters thoroughly unappealing (I'm used to that), and the CGI SFX were only average. Now that home PC's with the latest processors can do the third level CGI that SyFy utilizes, you'd think they'd use the savings to ramp up the writing or actor expenditures. They don't. This one didn't even have any former stars in a cameo role.The only reason to watch these things is because you're stuck at home and nothing else is on. And, of course, because you can figure out the plot by the first commercial break, and after that you can leave the room for a few minutes at any time and not worry about missing anything vital to the story.This one was so completely silly and contrived that even hard core fans of SyFy movies will be disappointed. Not to worry. They'll be punching out another one in a few weeks. Ice Twisters vs. Alien Tornado perhaps? Paul Birkett wrote both. You know he's thinking about it.{EDIT: On May 2nd 2012, this movie already had a name change. I guess the producers didn't like our IMDb comments.}