Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Breakneck
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Simple
- Violence
- Mild
- frantic
- visceral
- foreboding
- action movie night
- disaster movie marathon
What critics said
Critics broadly agreed that the film delivers impressive tornado effects and disaster spectacle but is weakened by thin characterization and conventional storytelling.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The story is presented through found-footage material associated with storm chasers, students, and people documenting the tornado outbreak.
Silverton is successively ravaged by tornadoes while residents, students, and storm trackers struggle to survive the escalating outbreak.
The film emphasizes unprecedented cyclones, devastation, vortex imagery, and large-scale visual effects.
The entire town of Silverton becomes trapped in a single day of tornado assaults, with shelters, streets, and public spaces transformed by danger.
Films like Into the Storm, and why
Twister
Both are tornado-centered disaster films combining storm chasers, escalating natural peril, and spectacle-driven action.
Cloverfield
Both use found-footage aesthetics and large-scale disaster spectacle to place ordinary people inside an escalating catastrophe.
The Day After Tomorrow
Both are ensemble disaster thrillers focused on survival, family bonds, and visually spectacular natural destruction.
San Andreas
Both foreground extreme weather, survival decisions, and contemporary effects-driven disaster filmmaking.
Movie Details
- Director
- Steven Quale
- Release Date
- 2014-08-06
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 (2235)
Cast
- Richard Armitage
- Sarah Wayne Callies
- Matt Walsh
- Max Deacon
- Alycia Debnam-Carey
- Nathan Kress
- Arlen Escarpeta
- Jeremy Sumpter
- Lee Whittaker
- Stephanie Koenig
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Howdy Amazon Channel
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Into the Storm about?
- As tornadoes reduce an Oklahoma town to a survival maze, storm chasers and residents confront the perilous allure of witnessing nature at its most destructive.
- What is Into the Storm like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Into the Storm as breakneck, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as simple.
- Is Into the Storm violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Into the Storm as mild.
- What did critics think of Into the Storm?
- Critics broadly agreed that the film delivers impressive tornado effects and disaster spectacle but is weakened by thin characterization and conventional storytelling.
- Which films are like Into the Storm?
- Films with a similar feel include Twister, Cloverfield, The Day After Tomorrow, and San Andreas.
- How long is Into the Storm?
- Into the Storm runs 89 minutes.
- Where can I watch Into the Storm?
- In United States, Into the Storm streams on Howdy Amazon Channel.
