The Hurricane Heist is a throwback khổng lồ the overblown action thrillers of yesteryear -- và a thoroughly middling example of why they don"t make "em like this anymore. Read critic nhận xét
The rural town of New Hope, Ala., has a pair of super-sized problems heading its way: There"s a hurricane bearing down on the Gulf coastline, & there"s a team of 30 well-armed mercenaries intent on looting the local treasury facility. Show More
Rating: PG-13 (Destruction|Action|Language|Sequences of Gun Violence|Some Suggestive Material)
Genre: Action, Mystery và thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 9, 2018 wide
Release Date (Streaming): May 29, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $6.1M
Runtime: 1h 43m
Distributor: Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures
Production Co: Signature Pictures, Foresight Unlimited
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)
Cast & Crew
Toby Kebbell
Will
Maggie Grace
Casey
Ryan Kwanten
Breeze
Ralph Ineson
Perkins
Melissa Bolona
Sasha
Christian Contreras
Moreno
Jamie Andrew Cutler
Clement Rice
Ben Cross
Dixon
Ed Birch
Frears
Natacha Karam
Cassie
Mark Rhino Smith
Deputy Baldwin
Stuart Mc
Quarrie
Niles
Rob Cohen
Director
Jeff Dixon
Screenwriter
Scott Windhauser
Screenwriter
Byron Allen
Executive Producer
Carolyn Folks
Executive Producer
Jennifer Lucas
Executive Producer
Mark Borde
Executive Producer
Chris Charalambous
Executive Producer
Mark De
Vitre
Executive Producer
Carlos Davis
Executive Producer
Anthony Fingleton
Executive Producer
Alastair Burlingham
Executive Producer
Charlie Dombek
Executive Producer
Tamara Birkemoe
Executive Producer
Jenna Sanz-Agero
Executive Producer
Chris Conover
Executive Producer
Norman Merry
Executive Producer
Peter Hampden
Executive Producer
Namit Malhotra
Executive Producer
Gregory Gavanski
Executive Producer
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For reasons that I am at a loss to explain, I seem lớn have become this website"s go-to guy when it comes khổng lồ dealing with films based around the goofiest possible permutations of what the MPAA, in their classic justification for the PG-13 rating bestowed upon “Twister” (1996), once described as “an intense depiction of very bad weather.” In the last couple of years, I have found myself grappling with no fewer than three chapters in the apparently endless “Sharknado” saga và the equally deathless “Geostorm,” films offering up the chance khổng lồ watch actors trying khổng lồ keep a straight face while pretending to lớn be startled by the cheesy-looking CGI effects added in later. The only reason that I bring up my bona fides in this particular area is so that when I tell you that “The Hurricane Heist” is one of the dumbest variations of the weather-based kích hoạt thriller subgenre that I have ever seen, you can be rest assured that I know what I am talking about.
The film opens with a prologue phối in 1992 that features two young Alabama brothers, Will và Breeze, attempting to lớn escape the destructive force of Hurricane Andrew with their father. Suffice it to lớn say, it does not go well and Dad gets crushed by a water tower while his sons look on in horror—just so you know that the younger Will is suitably traumatized, he at one point sees the clouds actually morph into a giant screaming skull. A quarter-century later, Will (Toby Kebbell) is a brilliant government meteorologist who is nevertheless terrified by bad weather while Breeze (Ryan Kwanten) has remained in their hometown of Gulfport lớn run Dad’s towing và repair ship while spending his days in a drunken stupor. Alas, another superstorm, dubbed Tammy, is bearing down on Gulfport. And while his superiors pooh-pooh his dire warnings, Will rides back into Gulfport lớn get Breeze out in time before Tammy hits landfall và sets the cottonwoods screaming.
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Meanwhile, a plot is underfoot by a group of miscreants lớn steal over $600 million in old currency slated for destruction from a U.S. Treasury facility. Now you & I might think that the imminent arrival of the killstorm of the millennium might cause even the most intricately planned heist to be scrubbed with no sense of shame. However, not only does this outfit press on with their plans, it turns out that the ringleader, disgruntled Treasury employee Perkins (Ralph Ineson), has actually devised the entire caper around just such an event. Sadly, he makes the mistake of spending too much time focusing on the big picture và the one person who can possibly foil his plan, fellow agent Casey (Maggie Grace), slips through his hands with the piece of critical information that he needs to lớn make off with the money. Eventually, Maggie & Will come together and try to thwart Perkins’ plans before the awesome force of Tammy can kill them all.
Granted, it is unlikely that anyone going into “The Hurricane Heist” hoping for a sweeping crime drama on the level of something lượt thích “Heat.” But even by the less rigorous critical standards one might logically apply lớn this film, it fails pitifully in its efforts khổng lồ reach them. For starters, the whole conceit of the film is so absolutely absurd that even those with a taste for action nonsense will find it khổng lồ be far too silly lớn get behind. Hell, “Hard Rain,” one of the many films that it flagrantly borrows from, is one of the dumbest kích hoạt extravaganzas ever made but even it comes across as plausible in comparison to lớn this—both films involve heists that take place during terrible meteorological conditions but at least the criminals in that film weren’t counting on the bad weather. Making matters worse is that screenwriters Scott Windhauser & Jeff Dixon were apparently so proud of the concept that they never quite got around to lớn realizing that having an entire film take place during a hurricane would wreak havoc with the visual storytelling—there are plenty of gunfights and car chases on display but as they are all filtered through the torrential rain & wind strong enough to lớn move one of Morrie’s wigs, it is almost impossible to figure out what is going on up on the screen amid all the clutter. (To be fair, it does inspire one deathless line of dialogue from one of the bad guys: “All we needed was one little hurricane and you screwed it up!”) Then again, the storytelling is just as clumsy in the few moments when the characters get out of the rain—one transition is handled so badly that I was convinced for a few minutes that an entire chunk of the film had been accidentally dumped along the way.
“The Hurricane Heist” was directed by Rob Cohen, a filmmaker who tends lớn specialize in insane kích hoạt spectacles, some of them entertaining (such as the first films in the “Fast & the Furious” và “XXX” franchise), some of them less so (“Daylight” và “Stealth” among them) và at least one (the talking rồng epic “Dragonheart”) that has defeated me every time I have attempted lớn watch it all the way through. While I will concede that he is probably the perfect filmmaker for this particular material, his work here is nevertheless pretty pitiful throughout. The whole thing has the chintzy look of a direct-to-video “Die Hard” knockoff that somehow managed khổng lồ get theatrical play and even his “A Small Circle of Friends” had better staging than the kích hoạt on display here. His direction of the performances is just as listless & uninspired as everything else. I have to lớn say, I never dreamed that Cohen would ever make a film dumber và shabbier than his previous effort, the Jennifer Lopez sexploitation effort “The Boy Next Door,” let alone accomplish that goal with his very next film.
In this review, I have cited a number of earlier films that “The Hurricane Heist” baldly & badly rips off. One additional title that came to lớn my mind when I was watching it was Brian De Palma’s underrated 1998 conspiracy thriller “Snake Eyes.” That film, you may recall, was mix inside an Atlantic đô thị casino that was being buffeted by an approaching hurricane. Originally, De Palma filmed a finale in which the hurricane finally hit & wreaked havoc but he famously dumped that footage & shot a new ending when he determined that it was just not working. If only Cohen had taken his lead & cut out all the hurricane-related material from his film as well. Granted, the over result of that would have been a film with a running time of about seven minutes but trust me, viewers of that hypothetical version would still be getting the better over of the deal than anyone sitting through “The Hurricane Heist” in its wretched entirety.
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