Storm Hunters
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Storm Hunters |
| Original title | Into the storm |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Steven Quale |
| script | John Swetnam |
| production | Todd Garner |
| music | Brian Tyler |
| camera | Brian Pearson |
| cut | Eric A. Sears |
| occupation | |
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Storm Hunters ( English for storm chasers , original title Into the Storm ) is an American disaster film from 2014. Directed by Steven Quale . It opened in theaters in the United States on August 8, 2014.
action
A group of teenagers are sitting in a car as a tornado approaches. A boy gets out to take a film. When the group realizes how fast the storm is approaching, it is already too late; they are seized by him and killed.
In Silverton, Oklahoma , senior high school graduates are preparing for the graduation ceremony . Gary Morris, the vice-principal, has his sons make videos in which graduates and other people make predictions about their lives in 25 years, only to open them as time capsules and view them later . At the same time, Pete, an experienced tornado filmmaker, has been trying to catch a tornado with his team for a year without success. He would like to go into its eye with a special armored vehicle. When they hear of a storm area that is brewing more and more, they decide to go to Silverton to film. Once there, they find that the storm cell has weakened and partially dissolved, only to suddenly strengthen again, to become a severe hailstorm and form a tornado that is heading for high school. The graduation ceremony takes place there in the open air; at the last moment, the participants can escape to a storm protection area.
Morris' older son Donnie had skipped the party to help Kaitlyn with a documentary video about an old paper mill. In the building they are caught by the storm and trapped in rubble. A water pipe breaks and their basement is slowly filling up so that they are in danger of drowning. Gary meets Pete's team in town, they get caught in another tornado, and when Gary arrives at Pete's meteorologist and saves her life, the team decides to help Gary at the factory. At the last moment they manage to save the two young people.
In the meantime, a much larger tornado is forming that threatens to razed the city to the ground. The citizens have sought protection in high school, but the protection area there is insufficient for a class F5 tornado . Because all cellular networks are down, Pete's team goes to school, the citizens flee in school buses. Some are cut off by an overturned high-voltage pylon.
Those cut off from all escape routes seek refuge in a sewer. However, its gate is destroyed by the tornado. In this situation Pete sacrifices himself by driving his special vehicle in front of the gate and first securing it with its special feet and finally with a winch. Pete is then drawn into the eye of the tornado. He films this with his special camera and then dies. The group survived; afterwards, several survivors expressed themselves happily and gratefully in videos. A group of drunken amateur filmmakers who behaved unreasonably throughout the film also survived to some extent unscathed.
background
Storm Hunters was produced by Broken Road Productions , New Line Cinema, and Village Roadshow Pictures . Filming took place in Michigan in Detroit , Pontiac and Rochester . The film was released in theaters in the United States on August 8, 2014. With an estimated 50 million US dollar production costs, he recorded more than 17 million dollars opening weekend. The film was shown in Germany and Switzerland from August 21, 2014, and in Austria from August 22, 2014. In Germany, 42,932 cinema-goers saw the film in 350 cinemas in the opening week, making it 14th in the German weekly charts.
The film is staged in found footage style.
synchronization
| actor | German speaker | role |
|---|---|---|
| Richard Armitage | Torben Liebrecht | Gary Fuller |
| Sarah Wayne Callies | Natascha Geisler | Allison Stone |
| Matt Walsh | Peter Flechtner | Pete Moore |
| Nathan Kress | Christian Pointer | Trey Fuller |
| Alycia Debnam-Carey | Luisa Wietzorek | Kaitlyn Johnston |
| Arlen Escarpeta | Marcel Collé | Daryl Kerley |
| Jeremy Sumpter | Ricardo Richter | Jacob Hodges |
| Kyle Davis | Tommy Morgenstern | Donk |
| Jon Reep | Tobias Müller | Reevis |
| Scott Lawrence | Oliver Siebeck | Director Thomas Walker |
| David Drumm | Peter Groeger | Chester Campbel |
| Frank Zieger | Uwe Jellinek | Kenny Hurst |
| Steve Garagiola | Erich Rauker | news reporter |
reception
- With box office box office profits of over US $ 150 million worldwide, the film was able to bring in three times its production costs, making it a great success. Most of the criticism of the film is negative, including Ralf Krämer from Die Welt . In his opinion, the film fails because of the thinness of the story as well as the acting. The film would only be designed for showmanship.
“Director Steven Quale accumulates bombastic effects and highly emotional moments based on the content principle. He lets as much happen as possible so that it is not noticed during the film that he will have been forgotten immediately after leaving the cinema.
Because the conceptual highlight of only cutting Storm Hunters from the material of the protagonists who are constantly filming themselves and each other is ironically so perfectly implemented that this not insignificant achievement should probably only attract the media theorists in the audience. "
- Markus Keuschnigg from the press also rated the film negatively: “[Quales] Storm Hunters is more of a digital trick demo than a fictional film; even the solid acting achievements do not change that” is his conclusion.
- The Stuttgarter Zeitung comes to the following conclusion:
“This could almost be something if not all the characters were painted so gruesomely, all dialogues sounded banal and all actions resembled the stereotypes of lousy TV series. So one only hopes again that the storm will please everyone as soon as possible. "
Awards
Golden Trailer 2014
- Best sound editing
Web links
- Into the Storm in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Into the Storm atrotten tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Storm Hunters . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2014 (PDF; test number: 146 194 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Storm Hunters . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b Markus Keuschnigg: “Storm Hunters”: These tornadoes don't grab us. DiePresse.com , August 22, 2014, accessed on August 28, 2014 .
- ↑ Storm Hunters. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on August 28, 2014 .
- ^ Into The Storm (2014) - Box Office Mojo . Retrieved November 5, 2014.
- ↑ Ralf Krämer: Cows, do you want to fly forever . In: The world . August 22, 2014. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
- ↑ Film review "Storm Hunters": Much wind about nothing. Stuttgarter Zeitung , August 21, 2014, accessed on August 28, 2014 .