Category 5

Featuring an epilogue of interviews with real life survivors of 'Hurricane Katrina', this micro budgeted TV movie tries for dignified reverence, but only achieves cheap over-sentimentality.

The wind machine gets a serious workout as our besieged family bunker down in the hopes of surviving a category 5 storm after having earlier survived Katrina. They intermittently bicker, leave the house and then try to outrun the approaching storm by car, whilst sage Burt Reynolds holds vigil back at the house awaiting their return.

Reynolds is a mere shadow of his former self and whilst his presence is welcome, he hasn't the energy to keep this flotsam from being blown away. Nor can reliable leading man C. Thomas Howell make this turkey tender, again spending an inordinate amount of his screen time driving, swerving to miss imaginary objects and pounding rain added in post production via inferior CGI effects.

Hard to tell whether it's well intentioned or just exploitative, either way it's a technically inept mess that not even the presence of Reynolds can redeem.