Category 7: The End of the World

This is a continuation of Category 6: Day of Destruction. Tornado Tommy makes a comeback, being one of the most interesting characters from the first film. The last film dealt primarily with Las Vegas, St. Louis and Chicago. This time we go for world-wide destruction!

This time Paris gets hit first. It's a different weather center this time, though. A guy is in Paris speaking to a group of people warning them that the same type of weather systems were due to hit France.

Paris after it's hit by the storms.

Then there's the personal stories, like in the first film. A cop's sister is made Director of FEMA. She also will run into the bureaucratic process opposing the truth. There is also the ignored-scientist-who-really-knows-what's-going-on theme.

The relationship between the sister and the disgraced scientist, his daughter and the sister's son is stretching things a whole lot. There's also a crackpot evangelist preacher and his wife who are making loads of money from people concerned about what is going on and giving their money to the guy's prayer service. (This is a part of the movie that could have definitely been left out; it takes too much of the movie's time and doesn't really fit the movie at all. One of the guys working for the preacher goes crazy and causes loads of trouble.)

There's also another unneeded plot theme. The FEMA director's son is seeing the disgraced scientist's daughter, and there's another guy at the school that is a rich punk and pushes the kid around. This later involves a plot with various crooks involved and it's just too much and too unnecessary.

What's left of the Great Pyramids after that area gets hit by a storm.

Things get worse as the storm that hit Chicago moves east and a storm from the south heads towards it to join up. Then there's another utterly unnecessary plot line where a bunch of crooks highjack some buses to get money for the hostages.

New York gets hit not by just a storm and tornadoes, but by a massive storm surge (in effect a tidal wave). The northern storm turns south, and the south storm is headed for Washington DC where both storms could collide.

The storm from above.

The second half of the film has an even larger proportion of unnecessary plot lines. A greedy power exec tries to stop the main characters from shutting down the power in Washington, DC, but he pays the price for his stupidity. Shutting the power is the only way to stop the superstorm.

The DVD comes in two parts. If you subtracted all the unnecessary plot lines, though, the movie could very probably have been cut in half, and it would have been a much better movie for it.