the rix mix

Category 6: Day of Destruction Among the most ridiculous dialogue & "plots" ever shown on TV. There were no likable characters except for Randy Quaid as storm chaser "Tornado Tommy,' playing pretty much his nutball character from "Independence Day." Worst was Brian Denehy as head of the Severe Weather Bureau; his job was to sit around his office doing nothing but grimly reminding us how bad the storms were & take calls from Tommy. Despite the entire city of Chicago being without power, with evacutions, fire, explosions, gridlock, panic & finally F6 tornados, all of the main characters quickly drove around the city at will, even when high winds wrecked every car but the ones they were driving. Cell phones that didn't work the first time the power went out worked perfectly when the whole system was fried at the height of a hurricane - which curiously had little rain until the movie was almost over. Decent special effects that never lasted long enough to be scary were combined with actual weather film footage. Rather than ride on a rim, one of the "heroes" stopped to change a flat tire while racing to save his dying daughter, airlifted out by US Air Force pilot, along with the pilot's pregnant wife, who risked his plane & crew. As they took off in the "eye" of the storm, one said that the backside of the hurricane was even stronger. We didn't get to see that. Like Independence Day & other disaster movies, millions of innocent people died, but in our storyline only the bad guys died ... &, apparently, Tornado Tommy, sucked up SUV & all into a twister, screaming, "We're going for a riiiiiide." As I get sucked into this garbage.
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