Sunday, June 30, 2024

Mega Lightning (2023)

There’s a storm a-coming, and it’s going to be a big one, which makes it the perfect time for…a home invasion?  Three robbers go to a rich couples home where there are no alarms on the doors or any surveillance outside. The house is supposed to be empty, but the couple are home.  They hear noises downstairs but don’t call the police because they’re on vacation. It makes zero sense.

The robbers hear noises upstairs. Do they run? Hide? Nope, they take their masks off and decide assault will be added to their list of charges. 

Meanwhile two couples take a long weekend together.  The women are sisters and one’s boyfriend is an abuser. He’s completely comfortable being abusive in front of the others and doesn’t want to hear any nonsense about it.

More new characters are introduced.  An older woman and a young man who might be her Uber driver are in a car crash. She looks in the passenger window at the injured driver and walks off.  Oddly enough it doesn’t seem like she is supposed to be unlikeable.

Forty seven minutes in and other than the car crash, there isn’t much mega lightning.  The sisters went to their vacation house without enough fuel to get home.  Who does that? They remember their mother said the tech millionaire she works for is on holiday so they’re going to head to his house. Not sure that makes sense since if he’s not home, how would that help? All the characters end up in the same house, there are murders, everyone is an idiot, and people keep screaming when they should be hiding from the robbers.

In the end, the death total is lightning 3, murder 2 and car crash 1.

Ridiculous dialogue

Debra: Why don’t we just call the police?
Richard: Because we’re on vacation. I don’t want to make a thing of it.

the computer on the beach
The face aerobics of conveying terror



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