I was flicking through channels one Sunday afternoon when I came across The Final Storm and decided to give it a look. Married couple, Tom and Gillian Grady and their son Graham live on an isolated farm. Gillian and Graham are watching the news on television which is filled with images of riots and chaos due to freak storms and the breakdown of order due to global upheaval. During the night in the middle of a vicious storm, a stranger turns up on their doorstep, hurt and seemingly disorientated. Okay, so what went wrong. It started off quite promising, bleak atmospheric and with a sense of impending doom. The isolated settings worked and the music really helped set the mood. Luke Perry was quite good as Silas and Steve Bacic as Tom and Lauren Holly as Gillian where just fine. But it was the actual storyline that I had problems with. First of all the story didn't seem to know whether it was a thriller, a supernatural or an end of the world movie. It started off with a eco end of the world scenario, then became a biblical end of the world story, then became a psychological thriller. Then back to end of the world story again. Uwe Boll should have picked one theme and stuck to it. The trouble was that none of the themes were truly explored. Not the thriller, or the end of world. There were some good moments, the trip to their neighbours to discover that they had disappeared and the deserted town people only with a few crazies. Once again, it was never explained why everyone was gone except for a handful of men. If the town had been evacuated, why did they stay? Why where the Gradys not evacuated as well if that was the case. There are too many plot points left dangling and the story could have been better without the predictable dangerous stranger storyline. It should have concentrated more on the apocalyptic aspects of the movie. It was a okay film that if handled differently, could have been great.
Review of The Final Storm
