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- 2018
- PG-13
- Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures
- 1 h 43 m
- 2018
- PG-13
- Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures
- 1 h 43 m
Summary Thieves attempt a massive heist against the U.S. Treasury as a Category 5 hurricane approaches one of its Mint facilities.
Directed By: Rob Cohen
Written By: Scott Windhauser, Jeff Dixon, Anthony Fingleton, Carlos Davis
- 2018
- PG-13
- Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures
- 1 h 43 m
- 2018
- PG-13
- Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures
- 1 h 43 m
The Hurricane Heist
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4.5
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Summary Thieves attempt a massive heist against the U.S. Treasury as a Category 5 hurricane approaches one of its Mint facilities.
Directed By: Rob Cohen
Written By: Scott Windhauser, Jeff Dixon, Anthony Fingleton, Carlos Davis
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
35
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
58% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
42% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
35
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
58% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
42% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
It’s far from the perfect storm, but The Hurricane Heist is stupid fun with a belter of a final sequence. Like the sound of a film called ‘The Hurricane Heist’? Then you’ll probably enjoy The Hurricane Heist.
The delicious silliness of The Hurricane Heist creeps up on you, because the absolutely wild action sequences as Will weaponizes the hurricane happen with very little fanfare or preparation.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 46 User Ratings
4.5
26% Positive
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
39% Mixed
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
35% Negative
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 46 User Ratings
4.5
26% Positive
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
39% Mixed
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
35% Negative
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
The Hurricane Heist Is an Fun action movie WIth a Hurricane on them I like the whole cast in this movie The very beginning of the movie is the best part of the whole movie The ending is pretty neat there is no much is just a lot of fun it is like a taco bell movie to me the score is nice I liked it So I give Hurricane Heist An C
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The plot... a destructive hurricane named Tammy approaches the town in Alabama. Treasury agent Casey Corbyn is ordered by fellow employee Randy Moreno to summon Breeze, who now works as a handyman, and whose brother Will is a meteorologist, to fix the generator at a cash storage facility. While she is out of the facility, rogue Treasury agents, led by Connor Perkins, infiltrate the facility and hold employee Moreno hostage. Their plan is to steal $600 million, and Perkins enlists computer hackers, Sasha and Frears, to crack the code of the vault. Failing to decrypt it, Perkins realizes that Corbyn may have changed it, so he has his men find her...
The movie is made by the producers of the highly acclaimed 'The Fast and Furious' series. Naturally I have relatively high expectation going into this. The first thing that caught my attention is the top notch voice acting, nothing too cheesy or over the top. This film focuses heavily on action which scenes are flawlessly complemented by immersive background music. It does an excellent job at that. Also, the breath taking disaster scenes plus the well choreographed actions sequences make it double the fun. However... this movie falls heavily short on the story/plot aspect, it is just too simple and predictable, and wasted away the potential for the making **** film, evidenced by the poor box office performance.
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It’s a silly fun action movie where bad guys get sucked out of a mall and everyone’s hair is wet but also perfect and one of the good guys is a meteorologist who went into the field because a hurricane killed his dad in 1992 and he wants to figure out how to “stop” them.
Still coasting on once being the director of the first The Fast and the Furious a full 17 years ago, Rob Cohen is unable to muster true engagement with the banal plot and characters, or deliver the kind of inspired ridiculousness that makes for a guilty pleasure.
The Hurricane Heist is...a perfect storm of deliriously watchable inanity and ineptitude. It may be a strong early candidate for the worst movie of 2018, but don’t let that deter you – bad movies this fun don’t come along every day.
One of the dumbest variations of the weather-based action thriller subgenre that I have ever seen, you can be rest assured that I know what I am talking about.
Do not shelter yourself from the silliness of The Hurricane Heist. Put down your umbrella, throw your arms open wide and get soaked with its idiocy.
First things first, this movie is definitely no Citizen Kane. Hell, it isn't even a Porkys 2. What it is, though, is a delightfully daft, couple of hours of leave your brain at home and have fun. Cohen, though slightly let down by disappointing CGI, brings us a heist movie the likes of which any other director would probably have looked at the script and wondered if the writers were using too much prescription medication. What he does bring us is a silly B movie, with laughs and thrills a plenty. The actors certainly chew their scenes with relish, yes I'm looking at you Mr Cross, however with an enthusiasm that rubs of and delivers plenty of fun for your buck. He even gives MS Grace a slightly more interesting character than the shovelling, spoilt brat she has been lumbered with this past few years. See it on a Friday night after a couple beers and hopefully you'll leave smiling at how preposterous it all is but made by folks who didn't care and just wanted to entertain. On that level, it definitely works.
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Die Hard meets Twister in the new thriller, The Hurricane Heist. When I first heard about this film, I was really excited and hoping for something new, but the truth was this film was nothing more than a compilation. A severe hurricane is about to hit the Gulf Coast, and U.S. agents are in town to secure the U.S. mint. As the storm bares down they are confronted by a gang of thieves intent on taking millions. The only things between them and freedom are a lone agent, two local boys, and one hell of a storm. There were so many parallels to other films that throughout The Hurricane Heist I was getting nothing but deja vu. At some points I felt like they should have just made the hurricane a series of tornadoes and called the film Twister 2. That was bad enough, but when you combine lack of originality with predictable behavior, you get a story that is very dull. What saves the film from being just another disaster movie are some amazing chase sequences, from the minds behind The Fast & The Furious, as well as some incredible special effects. This film is definitely an adrenaline rush, but the story, star power, and originality are severely lacking. I was expecting a daring robbery in the midst of a cataclysmic storm, instead I got Hard Rain, without the star power. In the end, The Hurricane Heist wasn't a terrible film to watch, but it was anything but memorable.
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"The Hurricane Heist" was a regular story, although the story and the plot were good, the performances were generic, and the special effects were cheap and bad. But it is also a crazy idea.
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While the action is appropriately over-the-top, the film isn't melodramatic, light, or hilarious enough to satisfy the campiness its title and premise promises. 3.5/10
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Production Company
Foresight Unlimited,
Signature Pictures,
RSVP Entertainment,
Windfall Productions,
Head Gear Films,
Metrol Technology,
Lipsync Productions,
Double Negative (DNEG),
Midwest,
Parkside Pictures,
Tadross Media Group
Release Date Mar 9, 2018
Duration 1 h 43 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline The ultimate storm for the perfect heist.
