You know a film is going to be bad when the blurb on the back doesn't even match what's in the film. The back of the DVD cover says a supergenius creates a machine to control the weather only for the machine to go all HAL on him so he's gotta to figure out how to outsmart it. Sadly this isn't the case. Instead the supergenius is working as a cop in Washington D.C. and its his stark raving bonkers daddy who having been denied funding for a machine to control the weather, uses it to wreak revenge on those who denied him funding.
Cue varous D.C. monuments being destroyed by lightning storms, tornadoes and blood rain while the supergenius, his brother and what I think is his girlfriend, who was Daddy's intern in a strictly scientific sense, try to stop their daddy from killing any more people. Not that it helps them to save the daughter of Senator Aldritch, who's now at the top of daddy's hitlist.
After this we get some emotional angst where the brother writes about what's going on under the aegis of Senator Aldritch. Girlfriend tells supergenius she prefers guys into guns and interior design to his brother. Supergenius wants nothing to do with Daddy, while Brother wants to try and save him and get girlfriend to fall in love with him, not Supergenius. At this point I switched off and started watching something called Domination street, which is a fictional series about a Dominatrix and her everyday life.
Anyway back to the film, Daddy decides to set off some sort of superstorm using the electric grid to create electromagnetic waves while quoting the Bible and Shakespeare. He then takes out the Air and Space Museum (I've been there; it's worth a visit) using lots and lots of hailstones. A news reporter gets caught out in it but still manages a quick report. Nice to see she has dedication. By this point in the film anything famous in Washington has gone to pot and the Senator gets very mad and shouts at Supergenius and his pals
After this Brother goes off to find Daddy who's decided to hit poor old Washington with a snowstorm and dropping tempratures. Supergenius comes up with some maths to divert the storm's path so it's over water in a scene that's not only full of technobabble but also enough fancy symbols to make you wonder why Supergenius was hiding away as a cop. News Reporter meanwhile is about to get caught out by the storm but then her role's a cameo one so who cares?
Supergenius decides to send some tornadoes the way of Daddy, who's been found by Brother and is now arguing it out with Daddy who makes him the Lord Vader Father and Son can rule together offer while some missiles are sent towards Chesapeake Bay. They go off in what looks like a nuclear detonation which diverts the storm. Twisters are meanwhile wrecking the powerplant Daddy's been holed up in, sending poor old Daddy over the side of a ledge though Brother is able to pull him out. The Senator calls off the twisters and gets interviewed by News Reporter. Supergenius and Girlfriend mourn Daddy and Brother, but the last scene shows the brother who appears to have gone over to the dark side which might come up in the hopefully never to be made sequel.
This one is not a good bad film, it's just bad. The script's lousy, the News Reporter might as well not be there, the only decent acting is from the Senator and Colonel Neilson, both of whom have way to small a role in what is trying to be a family fun disaster movie. So it only gets a measly minus two out of five. One to avoid if possible.
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