A stranger named Silas flees from a devastating storm and finds refuge with Tom and Gillian on their farm. While struggling with the Storm, Silas seems to be the only one who can help Tom and Gillian to find their son but there are other more dangerous forces out there, that are waiting for the three.
Da hat also unser Uwe tatsächlich eine Art Endzeit Apokalypse Film gedreht, der leider überhaupt nix zu erzählen hat.
Schwere Unwetter mit nicht enden wollenden Regen und Stürmen durchziehen den Erdball. In alldem findet sich Familie Grady wieder bei denne mitten in der Nacht ein unbekannter Mann aufschlägt. Der befürchtet nicht nur das Ende der Welt, sondern hat eine dunkle Vergangenheit mit ihrem Wohnort.
Wie für Boll üblich findet man hier einige bekannte Namen wie Lauren Holly, Luke Perry und Steve Bacic. Die agieren auch vollkommen in Ordnung, selbst wenn die Dialoge echt nicht viel hergeben.
Ansonsten ist der Film wirklich durchzogen von Langeweile, denn vom Ende der Welt bekommt man gar nicht mal viel mit. Das wird uns kurzerhand…
Uwe Boll has directed over 30 films at this point, this is one of them. The premise is that a mysterious stranger (Luke Perry) shows up at a families door during a terrible storm. Instead of sending him away they decide to keep him around as a guest, and Perry quickly gets to work fixing things up and acting kind of whacko much to the consternation of the husband (Steve Bacic) who seems to be the only one with any sense in this movie.
Right off the bat I was pissed off at this family. This dude shows up with no explanation of who he is or where he's coming from and he gets treated like a hotel guest, and…
On top of having to deal with the Biblical apocalypse unfolding around them, an isolated family must contend with the arrival of a mysterious stranger named "Silas" who starts making himself a little too at home. At first he's more of an annoying presence as he helps himself to the family's food and begins doing work around their property despite no one asking him to, but quickly turns creepy by trying to play father and husband while butting heads with the actual man of the house. To make things weirder the wife and son seem completely unfazed by their guest's actions even when they clearly cross the line. It is briefly implied that there are some familial issues going on…
Uwe Boll, Lauren Holly & Luke Perry in an end of days apocalyptic storm drama? Fuck yeah!
85 minutes later....
* l feel cheated. Bugger all storm. Needs a whole lot more storm.
* Luke Perry wore a bow tie & Newsboy cap throughout for NO CONCEIVABLE REASON (chopping wood, fixing the roof, burying dead things.)
* No Uwe, The Rapture is NOT the new " ...and then l woke up.
What the fuck did the storm have to do with anything in the plot of this movie?
Coming from master director Uwe Boll, it won't surprise anyone that this movie sucked. Big time. The script felt like three people wrote three different movies (although there's only one credited screenwriter) and then just decided to slap their crap together into one, big, incoherent mess of a film.
Bei Uwe Boll bin ich ja meist etwas zurückhaltend aus persönlichem Grund, weil ich mit dem Mann schon mal zu tun hatte und ich ihn menschlich sehr spannend fand. Trotzdem kann ich, gerade bei Werken wie diesen hier, verstehen warum viele in ihm so einen schlechten Filmemacher sehen. Ich war hierbei zunächst verwundert weil die Handlung fast so aussieht als sei es ein Film über eine Naturkatastrophe, erweist sich dann aber als Mysteryfilm mit biblischen Bezügen. Für mich was das lediglich dadurch interessant daß hier Lauren Holly und Luke Perry die Hauptrollen spielen, zwei Darsteller die ich aus Serien kenne, ansonsten gibt’s nichts erwähnenswertes aus die diesem Film zu berichten. Leider.
Fazit: Spannungsarme Mysterynummer in der wenigstens Luke Perry darstellerisch herausragt!
The worst thing I can say about The Final Storm is that it's incredibly boring; the direction is by-the-numbers but basically fine, yet the script just never asks us to get involved in the characters or what's going on. There are a few laughably hamfisted sex scenes and the "twist" ending is totally absurd, but it's a reminder that Lauren Holly is still a stone cold fox.
