Hurricane Season Review: Whirlwind of Disappointment

The ninety-minute film Hurricane Season tries to tell a complicated story but ultimately fails because of a lot of unlikable characters, needless fluff, and an incredibly simple and cliched topic.

Hurricane Season Review

The narrative begins with a group of youngsters discovering the dead corpse of "the Witch," the town's legendary figure who is said to have magical abilities. Yesenia switches the story's point of view to several local inhabitants and presents their accounts after reporting her cousin Luismi for the crime.

Unfortunately, the murder itself is not given much attention in the story—it is only completely disclosed in the final ten minutes. Despite the attempts to set the tone, the voyage is boring and full of moments that should have been cut.

Hurricane Season, which was filmed in a quasi-documentary format, repeatedly repeats themes of sexism and homophobia through lengthy views of insignificant things and extreme close-ups of people. The entire movie culminates with a cliched resolution that wraps up character storylines.

Hurricane Season Cast

Name	Character
Paloma Alvamar	Yesenia
Andrés Cordova	Luismi
Edgar Treviño	(No character specified)
Kat Rigoni	Norma
Ernesto Meléndez	Brando
Gustavo Morales	Munra
Conchi León	Chiquis
Said Sandoval	Willy
Oswaldo Alvarez	Cuco barrabas
Ernesto Meléndez	Brando (Duplicate)
Paco Peralta	Rigorito
Guadalupe Rammath	Mamá Brando

Hurricane Season Rating, Reviews and Director

Director: Elisa Miller

Writers: Daniela Gómez, Fernanda Melchor and Elisa Miller

Running Time: 90 Mins

IMDb Rating: 5.7/10

Rotten Tomatoes Score: Audience Score 78% 

The characters in the movie are its worst flaw. The characters are terribly unlikeable, even putting away the poor filming technique and inconsistent performances. Even though she's the most amiable, Munra is reticent and has a limited vocabulary, which makes it hard to relate to her. However, until a later point in the story, Luismi and Brando don't show any signs of improvement, and even then, the viewer might not be won over by their "healing". As a result, viewer tiredness occurs well in advance of the credits rolling.

Hurricane Season's foundation isn't fundamentally bad but it might be done better. The movie may have succeeded as a concise anthological drama with lively characters and a fast tempo. Unfortunately, it turns into a tedious and uncomfortable watch.

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