Gina Gershon Movie:

		List Price: $14.99		Label: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment Salesrank: 9966 Released: April 1, 2008
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		MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated) Media: Blu-ray

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CATEGORY 7: THE END OF THE WORLD
As a deadly Category 6 storm descends upon the Earth, unleashing violent winds, hurricane force pressure, and devastating tornadoes, officials scramble to pinpoint the cause. Though global warming is suspect, beautiful but discredited scientist Faith Clavell (Shannen Doherty, Mallrats, TV's Charmed) realizes that something else is triggering the extreme weather. Teaming up with storm chaser Tommy Tornado (Emmy® nominee Randy Quaid, Brokeback Mountain, Elvis) and Judith Carr (Gina Gershon, Sinatra, Face/Off), head of FEMA, Faith realizes they must enter the storm itself if they hope to stop it. While the country is at its most vulnerable, the government becomes aware that it is the target of a terrorist organization. Now, it's not only man against nature, but man against man as an intensified Category 7 approaches...

Description of Category 7: The End of the World [Blu-ray]:
Who doesn't enjoy watching big things fall to pieces? Category 7: The End of the World wreaks havoc on the Eiffel Tower, Mt. Rushmore, the Pyramids, and a midwestern trailer park, among other things. More or less a sequel to Category 6: Day of Destruction (presumably the latest in a series that began with Category 1: Don't Forget Your Umbrella), Category 7 offers the reassuring sight of Gina Gershon, skilled with disasters like Showgirls, taking control of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Confronted with city-destroying weather, she calls in rebel meteorologist Ross Duffy (Cameron Daddo, star of such classics as Pterodactyl and Anthrax), who runs the Extreme Weather Lab and harbors theories that threaten the political status quo. Ross brings in Tommy Tornado (Randy Quaid, the sole returning actor from Category 6), Faith Clavell (Shannen Doherty, Charmed), and Col. Mike Davis (Tom Skerritt, Alien) to gather data...which isn't the most dramatic of activities (even when it involves souped-up cars and superjets), so the movie adds a subplot about a religious zealot (Nicholas Lea, The X-Files) who wants to unleash the plagues of Egypt so that everyone will realize it's the End of Days. What does it all add up to? A lot of over-the-top hooey (and that's not including the assorted family turmoils), but pretty entertaining nonetheless. It's like a lesser Michael Crichton novel: Take an inflammatory vaguely scientific premise, add two-dimensional characters, cheesy but spectacular effects, and a full-throttle if nonsensical plot, and presto! Over three hours of silly yet utterly watchable television. For added fun, drink a shot every time one character tells another "You're the most important person on the planet right now." --Bret Fetzer

Category 7: The End of the World [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Category 7
2009-11-07 - This is one of my favorite movies. Received it with no problems with it. Would buy from vendor again

Category 7 is a disaster best avoided
2009-10-19 - This made for TV movie should have never been made. If it had not been a made for TV movie it would have been a category 7 disaster at the box office. With the exception of Robert Wagner, the scting is so pathetic it makes you want to laugh. Washed up Randy Quaid is laughable in his role as a storm chaser. He starts out the movie in the hospital in traction with both legs and both arms in full casts and in a HALO device. The very next day he is out of the hospital with no casts and no limp. How unrealistic is that? The movie goes downhill from there. Also, what's with the blurry double images and the spinning around the room camera shots? It's so bad it makes you want to puke.

Category 7
2009-09-03 - My grand daugher wanted this DVD and watched it over and over. Thanks for prompt service.

A four hour TV miniseries that should have never seen hour two
2009-08-12 - Disjointed, sloppy, and like the storms of the story, chaotic. There are far too many scene discontinuities, incomprehensible and underdeveloped story additions, and simply atrocious special effects - some of the worst ever filmed - to keep this film above average. Which is a shame considering the fairly impressive cast that includes Gina Gershon, Tom Skerritt, Kenneth Walsh, Shannen Doherty, Robert Wagner, and the always entertaining Randy Quaid.

Basically, a professor who is not Dennis Quaid has predictions about storms destroying the world. He's widely disregarded by smug politicians. Massive hurricanes collide to produce the heretofore unseen. Storm chasers who are not Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton shoot rockets into city-destroying twisters to collect data. Tom Skerritt mails it in as a jet fighter pilot who flies into tornadoes; it's essentially his role from Top Gun, but older. Meanwhile, Gina Gershon is completely overwhelmed by the role and responsibilities of FEMA director Judith Carr.

Perhaps the best way to describe this movie is with the sad tale of Kenneth Walsh. In The Day After Tomorrow he is the Vice President and ignored advice that could have saved millions of lives; in this movie he's Chief of Staff, and he ignored the advice again. `Nuf said.

In every possible way this movie is a generic rip-off, and there are even a few poorly done reenactments from scenes in the original; except, in this one, the Statue of Liberty is plastic and the flipping cars are of the Matchbox variety. Some of the hurricane footage is less believable than footage from the Wizard of Oz. To make matters worse, some stock footage is blatantly used twice, a slap in the face to any intelligent viewer. I'm embarrassed for some of the quality actors no doubt wishing this weren't on their resume.

Crack-pot climatology - poorly executed plagiarism from The Day After Tomorrow (there's even a token Asian assistant not named Tamlyn Tomita) - combined with an abhorrent Armageddon angle and an attack on FEMA serves as nothing more than a hit piece, a horribly transparent collection of Hollywood political agendas masquerading as legitimate plotlines. This garbage, at well over two hours, may as well have been directed by a long-winded, less obese version of Michael Moore.

At one point an actor asks another if they are "doomed to mediocrity." The question is rhetorical.

Category 7
2009-01-19 - I recommended because i Like movies that shows natural disaster. It's a good low budget TV movie. The special effects are really good.