I can't say that I was harboring much of any expectations to the 2022 natural disaster movie titled "Mega Lightning". Yet, I still opted to watch it, as I hadn't already seen it, and of course I believe in giving a movie a fair chance and the benefit of the doubt.
However, writer Tom Jolliffe, delivered an insanely generic, bland and laughable script for the movie, and director David Gregory didn't do much to deliver said material to the screen. So yeah, "Mega Lightning" is every bit as horrible as you would assume it to be.
Needles to say that there isn't any familiar faces on the cast list. Nor that it really mattered, because the actors and actresses virtually had nothing to work with here in terms of script, storyline, characters and dialogue.
The special effects in "Mega Lightning" were exactly that; special. And I don't mean that in a positive way. The effects looked rigid, unnatural and like something discarded from a 1990s computer game. A natural disaster movie of this kind is very depending on having good special effects to enhance the viewing experience and to make the rage of nature look all the more impressive. "Mega Lightning" failed to do that.
"Mega Lightning" is a cliché of a natural disaster movie. And you just know you're in for a good time, sarcasm might occur here, when you see the earth crumbling into an abyss behind people running away, and especially so when it keeps changing direction to actually chase those running. And when about ten bolts of lightning strike the same place repeatedly, the chances of that are just close to non-existing.
My rating of "Mega Lightning" lands on a two out of ten stars.
