I Watch Films: The Hurricane Heist

The Hurricane Heist is your basic heist-during-a-hurricane movie. There’s two brothers from the Gulf Coast of Alabama whose father is killed by a hurricane. One becomes a meteorologist, the other was in the army, but now has a repair shop. Presumably because he was in the army and has a security clearance, that brother is the outsourced on call repairman for the local federal facility, a plant that shreds old dollar bills. The shredder has broken down, there’s a hurricane on the way, and there’s a federal agent who screwed up in Utah and is on her last chance with a new convoy of money coming in.

There’s some good effects and action set pieces involving the storm, a variety of fight scenes of varying  quality, a good idea in using a huge hurricane to isolate the town, a twist that is a bit too telegraphed. It’s not a good film, nor one destined to be a classic. The trailers (Sky made a big thing about it being a Sky Original, released on satellite, to stream and in the cinema simultaneously) made it look fun, and it is, but it’s not the knockabout action comedy they seemed to be offering. I enjoyed it.

Watch This: For a competent twist on the heist, or for fights-and-storms.
Don’t Watch This: If you’re looking for intense drama and acting or watertight plotting.