View of Terror (TV Movie 2003)

View of Terror: Directed by Louis Bélanger. With Shannen Doherty, Michel Francoeur, Jayne Heitmeyer, Sean Tucker. A stalker picks up the scent of a beautiful young woman.

“Even though there are a lot of movies or miniseries out there created on a low-budget, they often can surprise you by having a good script, acting or an original story line. Specially in the sci-fi genre, where you can get more extreme in the fantasy part, I tend to give a movie more slack.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis mini-series however annoyed me after the first 10 minutes. The idea starts out OK, a secret military project has created a device to manipulate the weather. Early in the start of the series it gets activated and it will be obvious to you that you can find better special effects on you-tube made by 10-year old. OK, bad effects, I can live with that.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThen it all gets worse, a lot of characters get introduced which totally do not contribute to the story in any way. They needed a setting to show us how this bad weather effects the general public, so they introduce not 1 or 2 but 3 complete side-stories which could have been taking from any bad drama series on TV. In addition, the editing was so terrible that they pasted the scenes of the boredom after each other, letting you watch up to 20 minutes to irrelevant stories. The worse of these being a woman of course who is pregnant and gets trapped in a nasty place..guess what happens.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe second part that annoyed me is that this movie did not get any (or very bad) review before actually shooting it. Any film student could have filtered out the cliché parts, bad sequencing and put a more scientific realistic view to this concept. They most likely would have done it for free.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut then the worst part. The actors that accepted a role for this piece of crap. They often do not realize the damage they cause to their own career, instead itu0026#39;s only the money they are interested in.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eLuke Perry: Maybe not my biggest fan as 90210 certainly is not my genre but still, Iu0026#39;ve seen him take on some pretty good roles for example The 5th Element and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He has set a certain standard in the movie industry for himself. A standard we come to expect when advertising a movie featuring him. Iu0026#39;m pretty sure he didnu0026#39;t even read the script, such fail.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eJames van Der Beek: Maybe the only one that took his seriously. The character he portraits has potential, maybe not completely original but non the less, it could have made a fine character for any SF series. I feel his disappointment in ever excepting this role.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDavid James Elliott and his JAG buddy Patrick Labyorteaux: I guess their JAG money ran out. Again actors, stop taking roles blindly just for the money, you can do better than this.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAll together: bad directing, mediocre acting, very bad script, worst editing and terrible effects. All on a very promising idea.”