Review of The Hurricane Heist (2018) by Astor_ — 13 Sep 2018

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 of a great film, evidenced by the poor box office performance.