You won't be disappointed!

Sorry, this movie sucks

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

But that isn't saying much. Please see my review for "Category 6" for further comments.I half expected to see Randy Quaid's character come back to life, due to plot predictability. But I did NOT see it coming when he and Shannen Doherty's character kissed. BIG yuck factor!The Lindy Booth character was poorly scripted and acted as the cheesy journalist assigned to write obits then uncovers the end-of-days plot at a mega church.Good to see Tom Skerritt back on the screen, even if it was a campy redo of his "Top Gun" character.I've not seen Category 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5. But based on the amount of re-edited scenes and various cameos, I suspect the makers of these movies were trying to accomplish what their message was: save energy by recycling. They certainly recycled enough scenes and actors in parts 6 & 7!Oy!

I've seen this movie last night and I find it completely waste of time. The story flow is bad. The common sense is bad (e.g. the twister pull most of the building including cars up to the sky easily but as to the human... it take it takes a long long time). And to make it worst, why the hell do the terrorist want to kidnapped those people in a very dangerous situation like this??? Even if they succeeded, maybe all their others relatives might be dead by now (hello..we are talking about category 7 here) so.. who will save them poor people? The government? well, we all can see that the government themselves are in big trouble.AND the worst part is the ending! All it says is "We are talking about category 7" and the movie ends. This is just totally wrong!

For years movie studios have pushed out variations of blockbuster movies, For example, "Twister" hit the big screen and "Night of the Twisters" hit the family channel and "Tornado" hit (can't remember which channel) but I have to say that BOTH the cheaper produced movies far outweighed the so called block buster that was twister.As seen with the 3 war of the worlds movies released in the same year as each other, I feel the asylum productions release was a far better variation than the Spielberg release. It's the same as "Asteroids" far outweighed "Armageddon" and "deep impact" as well.It seams cheaper cast and cheaper budget provides for more "story" rather than fx, Which is generally a good start, less cgi and more plot, gets the point across, You can sell a movie with a few pretty faces and pack it with fx But it'll always lack a good plot.Category 7, was as good as Category 6 And their BOTH a Wake up call for are small insignificant little world Which where destroying slowly but surly. Well worth a watch, if you wish to see how the world's weather will evolve… Which it already is : /Looking at previous comments I can but wonder about the future of our fair planet, I'm far from a Greenpeace or recycling fanatic But I can see how the worlds changing (very fast to) It's a shame others are blind to the environmental changes around us, From "The day After Tomorrow" and "Category 7" And everything on the current weather & news channels I can but wonder if the world is just blind or has gone insane.People don't worry about floods nor what comes with it, Australia is feared for spiders, but as the world heats up…. They'll survive in your country, meaning boxes of fruit clearing customs will have a surprise inside (that's still alive due to the climate) and when the floods & heat come, piranha can swim pretty far, and will be able to live in such a climate, as for sharks : / lol when the ice caps melt (which they are) you'd be surprised what they'll bring. If these types of movies are not a wake up call, I don't no what is : /This movie isn't great but it does show you something, And it clearly makes its point, those who don't see it, need a wake up call....

This was the perfect DVD to watch on a Friday night after everybody else had gone to bed. Since I watched with headphones I got to really enjoy the sound effects.No, this was not LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT. If I'd wanted a serious drama I know just where to find them at the video store.The movie had Brilliant Scientists, Brave Pilots, Adorable Children, Amoral Politicians, Greedy Televangelists, Fearless Hurricane Chasers, Killer Frogs, Evil Kidnappers, and one Senator Who Places the Public Good above Personal Safety. Wow. And the character you'd most like to see fried by lightning in front of a large crowd does get fried by lightning in front of a large crowd.The characters you expect to live do live, the characters you expect to see die do die. And three nasty characters who richly deserve this ignoble fate are last see being sucked through the roof or doorway, their arms and legs waving wildly.Paris is destroyed (heck, we're had at France anyway). Mount Rushmore is doomed. Not only is the Statue of Liberty destroyed: it's destroyed twice. At the beginning of the New York sequence we see news footage of tsunami waves smashing Lady Liberty, then just before the end of the New York scenes it's destroyed again and this time part of the statue flies inland and narrowly misses two characters. Oddly enough, the 'science' in this science-fiction scenario seems plausible to this old cowboy. Rising heat from cars and the generating of electricity in cities (or, I guess, reflected off the roofs of mobile homes or sands of the Egyptian desert) add extra power to these super storms. The idea that cutting the electric power to Washington D.C. can completely stop a storm in its tracks seems odd, but this isn't real life.This is a world where two sympathetic characters can see a full size mobile home lifted off the ground and fly toward the air toward them and survive because they're standing behind a light pole. You don't have to read that sentence again. It's just what it says. And a pilot flies from San Antonio to Washington D.C. in what I figure to be about twenty minutes.Remember the old Flash Gordon serials. Flash and Dale would be trapped in the pathway of a lava flow and then To Be Continued would flash on the screen. The next week would start with the narrative "After escaping from the lava flow, Flash and Dale continued their pursuit of Ming the Merciless," and the story would go on.Power poles completely deflect the impact of full size mobile homes. People walk, run, drive cars and hold conversations in a 200 mile per hour wind. This only proves my theory that movies are way better than real life.The special effects are pretty decent. This wasn't one of those $200 million projects. No shot is held long enough for us to see the seams in the special effects. The scene in Paris is especially well done, concentrating most of the action around the brilliant colors of a carnival at night. The flooding of New York is surprisingly convincing. There's one scene of a reporter standing in front of a destroyed building that doesn't look all that great- just shows you that holding a shot for too long lets people see too much.In the early part of the 20th century a lovely lady named Sally Rand was a sensation dancing nude carrying huge fans. She'd move them so quickly that nobody ever saw more than decency would allow. Her motto was The Hand Is Quicker than the Eye. That's what editing is about in modestly budgeted sci-fi movies.And there are three bonuses here.First, and most important, it's good to see key roles played by older actors. Randy Quaid is well into his fifties, and Tom Skerrit and Robert Wagner are both in their seventies (although I think that Wagner has had lots of work done- Lord knows what he looks like at seven in the morning).Second, the story deals with some nice themes about the relationships between adult children and their parents.Best of all, the central character is the gorgeous and brilliant Director of FEMA, played by by Gina Gershon who survived playing the evil Crystal in SHOWGIRLS so nothing can daunt her. The idea of a smart person heading up FEMA is more science fiction than any other story element at play here.The movie lost two points because it's about an hour too long. The footage with the kidnapped children being chased after escaping their kidnappers runs way too long, as does a scene with a homicidal follower of the evangelists.Good popcorn movie. I can't wait for the sequel to come out on DVD>