The Echelon disaster

Movie
German title	The Echelon disaster
Original title	Stormageddon
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2015
length	89 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Nick Lyon
script	Neil Elman
production	Neil Elman, Anthony Fankhauser
music	Chris Ridenhour
camera	Gustavo Petersen
cut	Jason Goldberg
occupation
John Hennigan : Adam / Kelso Eve Mauro : Molly Joseph Gatt : Cain / Able Robert Blanche : Agent Gates Ricco Ross : Agent Travers David Shatraw : Charles Weeding Adrian Paul : Brian McTeague David Preston : Agent Wilson Jon Mack : Agent Smith Robert Craighead : Billy Jeff Kaake : Captain Meadows John Ierardi : Captain Pratt Mercy Malick : Carrie Lila Dupree : First Officer Alan Heitz : Hank Branton Box : Major Marshall Daniel MK Cohen : Miles

The Echelon disaster (Original title: Stormageddon ) is an American science fiction - disasters - TV movie from the year 2015 . The film, directed by Nick Lyon , was produced for Syfy by Los Angeles- based film studio CineTel Films , where it premiered on November 18, 2015. Almost without exception, with negative ratings, sales of DVD and Blu-ray versions of the film in Germany began on April 28, 2016.

action

"Echelon", a self-learning computer program developed by the United States that is intended to study, imitate and predict human behavior and is used for espionage purposes, over time gains an autonomy that can no longer be controlled and begins to move into the Hacking networks of the military and secret services. Directed against its creators, Echelon manipulates drones and satellites and escalates the situation when it penetrates the systems of DARPA , an agency of the US Department of Defense, and manages to control the weather, which in the form of gigantic storms and earthquakes has destructive and fatal consequences. With the question of how to stop a practically omnipotent opponent and how it could get that far, ex-agent Adam and Molly, the daughter of the Echelon inventor, set about the program, which is also supported by the unknown Cain will counteract.

reception

Although The Echelon Disaster received poor reviews, the film's obvious "trash factor" was mostly welcomed. The critics of TV Spielfilm , for example, give TV Spielfilm a symbolic “thumbs down”, but judge that “der Stuss”, despite “cheap tricks and banal dialogues” at least gets past you at great speed ] ". As a conclusion they draw: "Amusing junk, told reasonably briskly."

“[…] [You]… try… to create a halfway exciting story, the basic idea of ​​which is not that far off. The fear of the state-of-the-art computer systems taking control is used to create a horror scenario here, which is carried by a few good (and some not so good) actors. [...] John Hennigan, as ex- WWE fighter, provides a bit of speed during a few interspersed fight scenes, while (most) computer effects are pretty poor. [...] As a mix of Terminator and all the disaster works of the last few years, it is quite acceptable and reasonably well acted. [...] "

- Timo Wolters : blu-ray-rezensions.net

On kino.de one speaks of an "absolutely exemplary disaster-horror trip" with "broadly sown, ... but not always convincing [the] special effects [s]".

Web links

• The Echelon disaster in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Echelon disaster in the online film database
• The Echelon disaster on the CineTel Films website
• The Echelon disaster at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Certificate of Release for The Echelon Disaster . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
2. ↑ The Echelon disaster at tvspielfilm.de
3. ↑ Timo Wolters: The Echelon Disaster - Blu-ray Review. In: blu-ray-rezensions.net. Retrieved September 24, 2016 . 
4. ↑ The Echelon disaster at kino.de