This was truly a horrid example of Hollywood trying to make a blockbuster without heart or attention to storyline. Every moment of this film is an effort toward making a "spectacular", and not a moment is spent making film. Highlights include, a cow getting swept past a truck that is not swept up by the same wind, "evil" storm chasers in black trucks (yes, evil and in black trucks) who are "in it for the money" (what money?!??!), and a silly scene where apparently, you can run inches ahead of an F5 tornado ("The Finger of God")and suffer no harm. The writers make tornadoes into intelligent evil entities bent on destroying and killing...instead of just violent weather that is hard to predict. One scene has our heroes chased by a tornado, seemingly out to get them in an almost Three Stooges-type sequence where nothing goes right in their efforts to escape. It's silly, contrived, and the special effects aren't enough to make this watchable (I've no idea how people can enjoy a movie only for it's special effects). Trucks get thrown, houses explode, and cows float by...producers thought this would be enough for the "mindless masses" to fork over $9 at the box office. I was one of the suckers that did! Unless you are mindless, don't watch.