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August 15, 2014
At the Movies: Mother Nature deserves better than this movie
By JOCELYN NOVECK
AP National Writer
AP National Writer
“Into the Storm” is a movie that addresses the fearsome power of nature. Alas, it also addresses the fearsome power of a bad script to distract us from the fearsome power of nature.
Add to that a set of cardboard characters, and what you have is a movie that should have dispensed with the humans and dialogue altogether, and been a documentary. If, of course, the storms were real. Which they aren't.
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