Lightning: Bolts of Destruction
Lightning: Bolts of Destruction
PG | 08 November 2003 (USA)
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A meteorologist and her family work feverishly to find a way to extinguish a storm that threatens to destroy mankind.

Reviews
StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.
Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Catherina If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
mason_612 I watched this Canadian-made (BC) TV movie all the way through, just to see how bad it could get. I was not disappointed. This is the kind of movie that insults your intelligence, even if it is a work of fiction. This Canadian says that this is the kind of stuff that gives all Canadian movies a bad name. The "science" stuff was pure junk, with the final solution to preventing the end of the world coming from a 15-year old kid with a generator made of scotch tape and pop cans. The family problem sub-plot was totally superfluous, with his mother worrying about her lack of compassion etc, right at the time of crucial execution. We find out that the teenage whiz-kid is actually her sister's son, but we never find out, and no ever mentions his father. WE are left to assume that his adoptive father maybe is actually his real father, or not. Sorry, 2 out of ten, no more
jamkw57 I thought Cabin Boy was the worst movie I had seen, until this one. Manquito was even better. This movie was made according to the disaster movie formula to the letter. One person figures out the danger, antagonist too worried about money or career to heed warning. Doesn't even heed warning not to go outside. In the middle of the disaster the heroine tells her son, "You are adopted and oh, by the way, the world is about to end." The ending is very predictable. The acting is terrible and so is the plot.And the craziest thing in the movie is that the fighter pilots for the US air force look like they are wearing storm trooper costumes from Star Wars. But, I did learn that there is positive lightning and negative lightning.
carflo As drama, Lightning: Bolts of Destruction wasn't too bad. It was a typical low budget TV disaster movie: fun to watch with lots of lightning fx. The story was ok and the acting was fairly good.The science however:*******************MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW**************************Give me a break, please. Sun spots cause a giant super cell thunderstorm with positive lightning - more powerful than regular lightning - to form all over the world and combine into one huge storm. This will cause the jet stream to dip down to earth and cause an immediate ice age which, along with the lightning, will destroy civilization and most of humanity?????????!!!!!!!!!!!! Which is stopped by an giant EM pulse put out by a R&D power station at the magnetic north pole that reverses the earth's polarity????????????!!!!!! I may be a lit major who specialized in pre-modern British poetry - but even I see all the holes as big as the Grand Canyon in this scenario. Credulity is lying on the floor whimpering in pain. 5/10 - mostly for the pretty lightning effects and decent acting.
gmcdouga-1 Interesting concept, tho a lot of time was wasted on the usual academic in-fighting and the sub-plot of Pacula raising her sister's son was not really necessary to the plot and, in my opinion, distractd from it.