Review by Jon Donnis
I wanted to check out Supercell mainly because it was one of the last films that Anne Heche starred in before her untimely death. And despite the fact the god awful Alec Baldwin also stars, I thought I would check it out regardless.
West Texas and we start by watching a young boy's father during a dangerous storm chase in West Texas, of course for this film to mean anything, the father has to die. He does indeed die when he gets caught up in a tornado.
We then jump 10 years into the future and Anne Heche's plays Dr. Quinn Brody, the widow of the aforementioned killed father. Her son William Brody (Daniel Diemer) is now grown up and wants to be like his dad. And his ultimate dream is to chase and witness a great storm, as well as to better understand the motivations of his father.
Unfortunately Alec Baldwin is also in this film, luckily he doesn't appear in the first 30 minutes, but he is in the rest, he plays a stuck up owner of a tour company, his name is Zane Rogers. He is in the business of storm chasing for the money.
Eventually a load of people chase a storm, its gets bad, and to be honest I lost interest in this film long ago.
It is truly one of the dullest films I have ever watched in my life. Only the last 15 minutes or so have any kind of interesting storm action. Twister, this is not.
Alec Baldwin is as vile on screen as he is in real life, at least he never killed anyone making this film.
The characters are all uninteresting, the story is ok, but the low budget means that everything is crappy CGI and green screen.
Everything is predictable, the dialog could have been written by a first year student at high school.
The Good
Alec Baldwins character gets killed, so you can kind of enjoy that, although he does get a nice moment to scream just as the tornado takes him away.
The general story idea is half decent.
The Bad
The writing, the acting, the directing, the visual effects, and the film is WAY too long at about 95 minutes. This film should be no longer than 75-80 minutes, and even that would still be a slog to watch.
Overall
The worst film of 2023 by far. I score Supercell a 2/10
Avoid. Do not waste a moment of your time on this trash.
If however you have kidnapped a terrorist and want to torture him, you can get the film at Apple TV - https://apple.co/3YWkI5w
