Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Tim Samuels This move is so terribly made in pretty much every way of film making from the story to eh really bad superimposing of effects to the foam balls that are supposed to be hailstones. its really bad in every sense. The well known actors in this movie MUST have had something to owe to someone to be in this movie. you can obviously tell they were half-assing their way through it. I would say don't watch it but honestly if your bored and want something to watch for a good laugh Watch Frozen Impact; I was laughing through pretty much all off this movie. this was made for the PAX Network which proves they have no idea how things work because they green lit this. I'ts so bad its good. you wanna laugh, watch this piece of crap.

vchimpanzee In Rutland, Vermont, Jason needs a liver transplant. His obnoxious sister Marie is jealous of the attention he receives, but she's basically a good person. The kids' mother Christy is a doctor, and their father Dan is a paramedic.Marie wants to go rock climbing with her friends but her overprotective mom says no (this is understandable considering Jason's need for a new liver is the result of a rock-climbing accident). Jason, a talented magician, wants to go to Pete Crane's car dealership to entertain the kids while their parents bid on cars at an auction. His parents worry about him trying to do too much, but his father secretly lets him go, provided his sister watches him. Marie reluctantly agrees, but when she drops Jason off, she goes to be with her friends.A liver is found for Jason, but his mother can't find him to tell him. And the plane carrying the liver crashes in a storm. Can the liver be located? Can it be brought to the hospital in time? Can Jason be found? All sorts of complications get in the way, including the new hospital administrator Karen. She considers following procedures to the letter to be the more important than patient care. She insists that any uninsured patient be shipped off to the nearest hospital that will take people who can't pay.All of this makes for an entertaining and exciting TV-movie, the sort of thing CBS showed nearly every Sunday until a few years ago. I really liked this family, and if this had been turned into a TV series, I would have watched it.Oh, one more detail. The plane crashed because a storm system that created the worst hailstorm in U. S. history. The hailstones were the largest on record. And, of course, the hail shows up where needed without warning and disappears just as quickly. If needed, the hail shows up in the same place again, even if it's a few hours later, just to make sure the film remains exciting.And with that added information, the movie becomes a ridiculous mess. Even Marie expresses frustration with the plot's silliness (okay, maybe I'm exaggerating, but that sure seems like what happened).It is true that most of the movie's inspiring moments required some sort of catastrophe, including the best acting the film has to offer--some great scenes involving Stacy Keach as the once-cantankerous car dealer and Myles Jeffrey as the courageous and likable Jason. They are forced together by ... you guessed it.The other actors playing the family members do a capable job. Good enough for TV, anyway. Nicole Paggi is adorable, and her character shows a lot of determination, forced to take charge by ... more consequences of this bizarre storm. She even gets to be funny a couple of times, although I don't know whether comedy would be appropriate in the situations. I don't care--I liked it. Oh, and no matter what she goes through, her pretty face and hair remain perfect.Linda Purl is inspiring as the idealistic doctor (though after a while her hair does look like she's been through a crisis, which is realistic), but I will have to start listing some real problems. Keith Robinson has some fine moments as a cameraman who thought he was covering a fluff story but finally gets a chance to cover some real news. Colleen Porch as his journalist partner, however, is quite terrible. And what can I say about Ann White as the by-the-book administrator? Wanting to send people out into that dangerous storm? Her makeup looked great. Dr. Lilith Sternin-Crane herself couldn't have looked more in need of a tan.Also, Kenneth Kimmins does a good job as the ambulance dispatcher--he believes this storm deserves a name, like hurricanes have, so he calls it "Medusa".Now, about the negatives. I've mentioned some already, but they weren't related to this movie's apparent attempt to capitalize on the "storm of the century" craze. Oh, wait. This came before "10.5" and "Category 6". Regardless, there's no way hail could cause this much damage. The visual effects make it all too obvious models are being used. Especially the way one house is destroyed. It looks like it's being crushed with a big blue hammer in front of a blue screen. Oh, don't forget to add flames! If that's not enough, the reaction of the townspeople is even stranger. What happened? Where are they? Did they all leave? No, some are still at the hospital. But no one seems to be acting like it's the "storm of the century". And as exhausted as Christy gets, it isn't exactly "M*A*S*H" or "ER". And where are the emergency vehicles? Don't disasters result in calling in fire trucks and ambulances from all over? And in every other hailstorm on record, wasn't there at least some rain? Or lightning? I'm sure weather and science experts would have plenty to attack here.As a story of the courageous attempt to save a boy's life, this movie is quite good. As a disaster movie, it's a disaster.

tropic_pirate Well, if you have nothing yo do... you can rent this movie and watch it for fun. This movie is one of those movies that we heard in jokes, it's so bad that in the end is funny. The "special effects" are not what they called, the story is too predictable and the actors... well, you may see it. I saw this movie in video club, I rented and my first thought was: "oh, this must be a special edition in DVD of an old movie" and then you check the box of it and it says that this movie was made in 2003. If you see the clothes, cars and the TERRIBLE (in both senses) snow that seems more like spheres made of paper; you think that if I were the director I'd prefer to do no movie, instead of make this thing. But after all, I must admit it, I have a lot of fun watching it, I suggest that the genre Comedy appears on this screen.

Pro Jury There are a few positive elements to mention here... Nicole Paggi is completely hot. Nicole Paggi and Myles Jeffrey play brother and sister, and in real life they look alike enough to make playing brother and sister seem fairly realistic. Last, the older actors do a very good job with what they have to work with.Unfortunately, there are many negative aspects to mention. Very poor production values -- the special effects and the hospital ER/operating room sets were very weak. The editing was poor. At times there is a lack of continuity between cuts.Myles Jeffrey can't act yet, and his eye movements during times when other actors are feeding him lines are distracting.There is a Georgia accent, a Long Island accent, a Left Coast accent... but no Vermont accents.The story and plot come with more holes than Swiss cheese. Annoyingly, each of the many brief periods of hail falling is paired with a character spontaneously confessing some deep dark secret to whoever is near. Hail attack / confession, hail attack / confession, repeat five or six times, etc. Watch this expecting it to be a small town high school play production, and you might not seem all that bad.