Movie Title: Hurricane Heist
Grade: C-
Rating: PG-13,
1 hour 43 minutes
1 hour 43 minutes
In a Nutshell: The title pretty much sums up the entire movie.
Am I the only one who is wondering if this movie was just an excuse to play the song Hurricane Heist: Rock You Like a Hurricane
If you love weather-based disaster movies and don’t mind a lot of dumb stuff, it can be a fun ride and like a lot of director Rob Cohen’s movies, a guilty pleasure. (Think The Fast and the Furious
)
Am I the only one who is wondering if this movie was just an excuse to play the song Hurricane Heist: Rock You Like a Hurricane
If you love weather-based disaster movies and don’t mind a lot of dumb stuff, it can be a fun ride and like a lot of director Rob Cohen’s movies, a guilty pleasure. (Think The Fast and the Furious
) 
Tips for parents:
- Profanity
- Destruction, shooting, explosions
- People in peril
- Crime
Uplifting theme:
- Family
- Honor
Things I liked:
- The movie starts when Hurricane Andrew hit in 1992. I remember it very well, because we were living in Georgia at the time and my husband drove down to Florida with a bunch of other guys from our church to help the people down there. He returned with photos of unbelievable destruction. It was truly heartbreaking.
- Good stunt work.
- A few twists.
- I think this was the very first time I’ve EVER seen characters take a minute to go to the bathroom in the midst of all the action and commotion. ha ha
- Maggie Grace does a great job. It was nice to see her empowered and capable after being drugged and helpless in Taken
.
Things I didn’t like:
- None of the characters seem like real people. Lame.
- Some really awful Southern accents. Sometimes it’s hard to even know what people are saying.
- Some of the special effects look really fake.
- Cliched, stupid villains.
- Cliched line, “Do you trust me?”
- There is mention of the American terrorist Timothy McVeigh and his bombing of the federal building. Some of the characters buy fertilizer and some other items at a garden supply store, while talking about how easy it is to create a bomb. Gee, thanks for giving more wackadoodles out there the idea.
- Dumb dialogue.
- The ending was super abrupt.
- Why did they dub over the voice of the little boy who played the young Toby Kebbell’s character? If they didn’t like Leonardo Dickens, why did they cast him?
- Supposedly, they spent $40 million dollars on this film. Really?
Funny lines:
- “You know, I think you’re a little psychotic.” – Perkins (Ralph Ineson)
“I think you’re a little bit right.” – Casey (Maggie Grace)
- “I’m out of bullets!” – Casey
“How’d that happen?” – Will (Toby Kebbell)
“I shot them all.” – Casey
“I fricken love Monday, you weirdo.” – Casey to Will
Interesting lines:
- “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absences of fear.” Perkins, quoting Mark Twain
- “Money is honey.” – Perkins
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