whpratt1 Luke Perry, (Ron Young) is required to give his experience to a renegade Air Foerce General Roberts, ( Martin Sheen) who is involved in a top secret government operation in order to control all the weather of this entire country. The secret weapon is able to be launched from an aircraft into the eye of a massive weather front off California which has great winds of over 400 mph. This storm is headed for Los Angeles and there are many struggles that happen aboard this aircraft and many people fight against each other. There is even time for men and women to find love and close relationships. Great film from 1999, enjoy.

MetalGeek As a confirmed "B" movie lover (and someone who wishes to amass a large DVD collection as cheaply as possible), I regularly haunt the "Dollar DVD" rack at my local Wal-Mart searching for low-budget gems. My latest acquisition is "Storm," (A.K.A. "Storm Trackers," according to the front of the DVD box), a late-90s made-for-TV disaster movie starring onetime teen heart throb Luke Perry (of "90210" fame) and Martin Sheen. (!!) How can you go wrong with that powerhouse combo? I expected a laugh riot when I sat down to watch this one, but I have to admit, it was far better than I expected (barring a few cheesy moments, particularly in the last fifteen minutes or so). Perry plays a meteorology professor (aided by a hippie assistant played by Marc McClure, best known as Jimmy Olsen in the '70s "Superman" films) whose experiments with storm technology are deemed too dangerous by his university and result in him losing his job. Fortunately for him, just as he's packing up his office, he's approached by a government representative who offers him a job working on a hush-hush military project headed by an Army general (Sheen), whose objective is to actually control the direction of powerful storms. Perry joins up immediately and at first thinks he's working on a project that will not only save lives (by diverting dangerous storms away from populated areas) but also bring much needed rain to drought stricken parts of the world. Of course, it doesn't take him long to figure out that the true aim of the project is something more sinister, and that Sheen's character intends to use storm control as a defensive weapon. The last half of the film then descends into predictable disaster-movie chaos, as the research team attempts to steer a hurricane into Mexico but loses control of it so that it heads directly for downtown Los Angeles. Perry then attempts to re-gain control of the storm from an airplane before it can flatten L.A. (and endanger his girlfriend, a local TV news reporter out in the thick of the chaos). Most of the L.A.-set disaster scenes are rather underwhelming due to the low made-for-TV budget (most of it seems to be cobbled together out of old Weather Channel storm footage) aside from one funny bit in which a wind-blown hunk of the Hollywood sign nearly flattens a TV news crew. The climactic battle between Perry and a government goon in front of an open airplane cargo door (with the hurricane raging right outside) is downright silly, particularly when Perry leaps OUT of the plane and ONTO the storm controlling device (!!) in order to re-program it and divert the storm away from Los Angeles. Yeah, okay, suuuuuuuure, that MIGHT happen...if you totally disregard the laws of physics. Aside from the occasionally hilarious lapses in logic and cheap looking special effects, STORM TRACKER was a fast-paced adventure story that had pretty decent performances by its stars (Sheen is totally slumming in this flick of course, but nobody can play a blustering, obsessed military type quite like him) that turned out to be entertaining enough action melodrama, especially since I only paid a buck for it. My fellow Dollar DVD aficionados (and I know there are a lot of you out there) can pick this one up with confidence.

leandros The Storm is so cheesy, so fake that it's not even funny to watch. Terrible special effects, not only feeling fake, but looking fake too. Aside of terrible acting, we get to watch unconvincing plot too. To summarise: a disaster movie with almost no casualties, and with a happy ending.

Caltex Storm was one of the worst films I had seen since Airborne. It was actually painful to watch and I would have preferred to get a root canal without pain killers than see this hunk of junk. Quite simply Storm is not worth the film it was printed on. The special effects were really bad to the extent where you could see the wires coming from the plane. The waves looked as if they were the ripples which my goldfish make when they fart in the water it was that cheap.