I love watching low budget cheesy movies. This one is pretty bad. STUPID story line and the acting is BEYOND TERRIBLE. It's hard to watch the movie, especially with the red haired chick. She has so much lip filler in that it's even hard to look at her. I wish the lightning would of hit her lips. They are shiny, which even draws more attention to them. I don't have to many good things that I can say about this movie. I read the other reviews and figured I would give it a shot, because like a stated earlier, I love low budget cheesy movies, but this was hard to watch all the way through. All the one star ratings are actually correct on this one.

There's a dead stop right after the thrilling first five minutes when filmmakers, capturing a lightning storm, end up becoming victims to it. The special effects are cheesy, but that is okay, because I wasn't expecting "Twister" or "Independence Day" like effects. But from there, the film crawls to a halt, dealing with the uninteresting people at a house party in danger over the deadly strikes that threaten to burn living people to a crisp, and the causes for the constant raging storm with no intention of stopping. Sadly it's a dull mixture of horror and sci-fi, with boring and cliched characters, and unflattering camera work on some of the cast. These direct to video or streaming movies servs no purpose other than to waste the viewers time. In this case, British filmmakers have jumped on this band wagon, and the results haven't improved by the jump across the pond.

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.