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If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Summary: A hodge podge of pseudo science, bad special effects and ill fitting stock footage doesn't make a good movie.Details: It stank. It really stank.I have nothing against Canadian made disaster movies set in the USA. Personally I'd like to see a Canadian disaster movie set in Canada some time, just to even the score. But if they are set in the USA they should look and sound like they are set in the USA. This had far worse American accents than usual. Jeff Sutton, who played Garth Benson the teen-age son of the diddling power company manager had such a STRONG Canadian accent that he couldn't keep in American for long enough to finish any of his dialog. I don't mean subtle points - I mean the stereotypical joke "ooot" for "out" sound.The stock clips used to make so much of the storm footage OBVIOUSLY weren't from near Chicago. The style of houses screamed deep South. The palm trees screamed Florida. It was comic.Many of the special effects looked like a computer game. To me the worst was the weather plane. It just looked really fake, like Microsoft Flight Simulator.A movie can get away with poor special effects and ill fitting stock footage if it has a good script and good actors. How many of us have seen wonderful classic movies that have poor staging by today's standards? The whole magic storm from Hades that was a mystic convergence of global warming just never made it. This one also fell flat on its rear end in the dialog department. It was both utterly serious deadpan and utterly unbelievable. It was emotionless. No highs, no lows. Add it horrid acting and you had a lead balloon of a movie.Save your time.

Mind numbing foolishness, but entertaining in its own zany way.For some reason in made-for-TV disaster flicks, the lead characters and their families all seem to have personal problems bigger than the natural disaster. Conveniently, during the crisis. Lots of problems. Usually dumb problems. It's not enough to show millions of people getting clobbered by hurricanes and tornadoes. No, families need to be in crisis too for some reason.Many such contrived subplots come your way in Category 6, ranging from infidelity to a pregnant woman being stranded on a stalled elevator. One character does all the following: learns of her dad's infidelity, involves herself with a goony looking boyfriend, is involved in two robberies, is stalked, gets locked in a building during a power outage, is held as a hostage, and even gets shot. Plus, she whines a lot.Schlock stock characters are in abundance: nervy TV news person, evil corporate jerk, crazed tornado chaser (Randy Quaid), etc. Quaid's over acting is a re-do of his ID4 character, only cranked up another ten notches. He yells constantly, gambles his neck for no reason, and generally looks like he could use a lobotomy. Along the way he endangers the lives of some stereotypical foreign tourists. They, like you, are completely confused at what they're seeing.When the film occasionally deals with the crisis, it becomes so weird that it's funny. CGI is a farce: people and objects seem to be two feet off the ground long before the funnel cloud is anywhere near them! Electric short circuit bolts go right through victims and come out the other side. Many things explode for no reason. There were probably more, but by this time I was laughing so hard I didn't notice.It's only fair to note that that the actors appear enthusiastic (not counting the teens) and they make the most of the script. The film ends up being watchable in a detached "ok it's nonsense, but it's fun nonsense" sort of way. I'll give it a 5, just for the laughs.

I'll admit that having heard all these negative things about this 2 part movie, that it wasn't all that bad. It certainly wasn't as bad as I had expected but it also really wasn't too much good either.The movie is filled with many stupid silly plot-lines. They are so all formulaic that none of them offers any surprises. On top of that, the dialog in the movie is absolutely horrible. At times it even manages to become laughable. This is the sort of typical dramatic disaster movie that features many characters in it, of which none really ever work out as an interesting or engaging one.This movie isn't about natural disasters, this is about people and their personal problems. Now is that anything new or interesting? I mean, I've I wanted to follow a story like this I would watch a soap opera in stead. It's the sort of mistake "Deep Impact" and disaster movies in general often make. The movie at times tries to put in morale in about the environment and global warming and such but all those things come across as forced and look silly because of that in the movie.It seems to take for ever before the introduction and build-up in the story stops. There is a lot of talking about natural disasters but not enough of it gets actually shown on the screen. The movie is too long on its drama.The use of news archive material of bad weather conditions and tornadoes is too obvious. It makes the movie seem even more cheap and silly. There are some good actors in the movie but even they can't make the movie work out fully- or the dialog. Randy Quaid, Dianne Wiest and Brian Dennehy are no small time actors. Guess they also regret being in this, looking back at it.But the movie does a good job at keeping the pace high, even though when nothing is happening. For a made for TV production this really wasn't all that bad. I mean, I have seen far worse attempts. The movie was overall good looking, despite of the weak and cheap special effects. But I don't really see what's the big deal about it, since the special effects get never featured that prominently in the movie. I therefor also feel that some of the negativity toward this movie is for most part unjustified. Not that it deserves raving criticism but its a decent attempt that does not bore but just becomes too silly and unlikely in parts.5/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

I think "category 6: day of destruction" was very unrealistic. The digital effects where like a children's cartoon. The actors didn't act realistically, for example, when the girl was shot she acted like she got tomato sauce splatted on her. The movie was boring but I watched it because it was on. The only interesting character was Tornado Tommy, he was funny!Please keep the special effects real.I liked the comment: "What did we do to p.i.s.s-off Mother Nature?"I don't know what else to write to fill up the 10 lines. What else can I say the movie is so boring, I think my comment will be equally boring.