Kristoffer Tabori

(On Cable TV, June 2020) No, just no. Maybe you will someday spot this film in a listing somewhere and think, “a mayor saving her small town from a deadly rain of meteors? That sounds interesting!” but no. It is not. Keep in mind that Anna’s Storm is a low-budget straight-to-video 2000s movie with the effects, acting, directing and cinematography appropriate for its class. In other words: it’s terrible, it always looks terrible and every time someone says or does something, you’ll be reminded that it’s terrible. Special effects may sometimes suggest that any movie can now recreate the 1970s disaster film genre, but that’s an illusion—you need a lot more to succeed, including basic filmmaking competence. Director Kristoffer Tabori is doing his thing here—another in a long list of undistinguished and terrible TV films. The premise makes absolutely no sense, with several insistent waves of meteors repeatedly hammering the same town over several minutes/hours—in complete disregard for physics. But the rest of Anna’s Storm isn’t any better. It all becomes tiresome in the way most of these films become. Just no.