It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Blistering performances.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

You have some thousand year old entity who uses lightening to kill people. Why is not explained. Some guy shows up whose son was killed by this being and after being hit by the lightening he is immune to it. He builds a lightening rod structure on the top of a building trying to trap this being in a never ending void. There is also a woman whose son has been killed to open the movie and she is also immune. She has even faced the killer. There is the professor and his team who are tracking the storms but do not believe in the entity, well one does towards the end. He brings the shielded generator to the roof top because the one they have is not shielded. Kevin Sorbo plays the sheriff which is why I watched this movie. I really enjoy watching him. Anyway the contraption works, the killer is trapped in the void along with the old man. The mayor is a real piece of work. Typical smarmy small town politician. Not a bad movie all in all.

I found this film was like a roller coaster of emotions. Will lightning strike? Will it be blue lightning? Is it going to split a car in two. Is it going to kill that boy? Will a generator with a lot of negativity allow the rod to conduct electricity? Is it really an alien living in "lightning space" who comes down in bolts and murders hapless people? All these questions were answered perfectly well in this straight to TV movie, and these are questions that I have often asked myself in my 34 years of life.Unfortunately, the question "why this town" was never answered, but thankfully, we are left open for a sequel whereby Donovan fights the alien dude in the lightning realm.

I would like to add a few more goofs to the ones already listed: Isn't it illegal to park in front of a fire-station?The sheriff's house is so far from town that you need a car to get anywhere (son is complaining that he can't go anywhere because his car still isn't fixed), but close enough that a half-dead woman from the hospital can reach it on foot in 5 minutes.If they are going to ride a van into a lightning storm, shouldn't they have tested it first?Why are they using a voltmeter? It is emphasized several times that it is extremely important to start the anti-lightning machine at the right "amperage": 1000 Amp's. And the machine is indeed started up at 1000 Volts.I have given it a 2 out of 10 because it was so funny.

I respect the opinions of other reviewers on IMDb, but sadly, from time to time, you spot a tendency for the writers of these movie reviews to follow the leader. If the first guy says a movie is lousy, the rest play copy cat. I'm going to play Devil's Advocate for this film. It is not a bad movie. It is an entertaining movie. The plot is a little predictable (small town setting; pumpkin festival bringing in the tourists; rugged Sheriff trying to protect the citizens; stupid Mayor squashing Sheriff's effort to warn the citizens; professional monster hunter in town to deal with the menace) and it is not much of a stretch to surmise the script's inspiration was Jaws. It is obviously a low budget film and most of the actors have thin resumes. But if you are looking for a Saturday afternoon fun session sitting around with the guys knocking back a few beers, and this flick comes on the SyFy Channel, ignore the naysayers who wrote such negative reviews, and give this film a try. It will reward you with a couple of hours of solid entertainment.