FRIDAY FILM BEAT: Into the Storm

How can I put this one? Clumsily scripted and populated with forgettable characters, Into the Storm has little to offer beyond its admittedly thrilling special effects, but the special effects work is basically flawless, and you absolutely get what you arguably came to see. You want big-screen images of insanely large-scale tornadoes and big-scale devastation and disaster carnage? Into the Storm gives you plenty of rock-solid disaster porn. Don't let the not-so-flash reviews (a 20% approval rating with an average score of 4.3/10 based on 127 reviews at Rotten Tomatoes, and a score of 44 out of 100 based on 30 reviews at Metacritic) fool you.