Jack Swarthout II

Disclaimer: this is the first movie review I have ever written and I haven't ever even stayed in a Holiday Express, but I watched this dumb excuse for a couple hours of entertainment last night and felt compelled to comment. To begin with I have actually spent a summer in a lookout tower in Montana, and jumping out of the tower and sliding down a rope is absolutely the dumbest thing anyone should or would do to avoid a lightning strike. Do you really think the forest service would construct a tower without lightning protection? You're right. They wouldn't. The absolute safest place in the universe in a thunder storm is sitting in the cabin of that tower. This is accomplished by placing lightning rods on top and at each corner of the cabin with heavy copper grounding cables carrying the current to the ground. This simple technology was proven by a strike on my tower while I was eating a jelly sandwich back in a summer evening in 1969. Except for my underwear I was perfectly safe and the tower sustained absolutely no damage. As far as the acting, I have no complaints. I just know I am writing this because I can't act and they pay pros to do it. Another thing about lookout towers: could be different today, but mine was made of wood and glass. No way it would have survived that fire as close as the trees were in this movie. Mine was far from trees for better visibility and had a better chance. Oh yeah, don't they always clear nearby trees from al lookout towers for both safety and visibility? I think so! And when Angelina was struck by lightning that was extremely unrealistic. Anyone ever seen multiple strikes so close together in such a close time frame? I haven't. Finally the end of this movie left way to much unsaid. Who were the bad guys paying the hitmen and what were their crimes? What did the father write on that paper in so few words that exposed both many private people and those in government? I sat through all those " Oh I'm sure" scenes for nothing! Just glad I saw it on HBO Max and didn't pay a theatre.