I really enjoy good disaster movie. There are not that many in the first place and even less focusing on tornados.

Which is kinda funny since my first disaster movie was probably Twister (1996) that introduced me into the genre, and I had to wait long 18 Years until I saw something of similar quality featuring tornados. Mind you, I also stumbled upon it just by a pure chance, since as opposed to Twister (1996), Into the Storm (2014) was never meant to be or had aspiration to be AAA blockbuster.

In disaster movies, visuals are more than half the battle if you want to have a good movie - what the audience wants to see and hoping for when coming to see it.
Both movies, Twister and Into the Storm look about the same in terms of CGIs, which is equally impressive for both movies for different reasons.

In Twister's case the fact they had achieved it 18y earlier, and in Into the Storm case, because they did it with a quarter of the budget (adjusted for inflation).

I know that these days impressive CGIs are way easier to do, thus less costly (comparing it to same quality in 1996), but at 1/4 of the price tag it's obvious that the production team also did wonders with their allocated budget and I consider those two movies to be the best in their own class (movies about storms/tornados).

In the beginning I though that Into the Storm (2014) will be cheap straight to TV movie that also looked like it wanted to ride the Blair Witch Project's POV wave, featuring many point of view shots, but thankfully not the whole movie. It has a good balance between classical cinematic shots and POV's to be honest.

Soon I realized that I was wrong because the visual were actually great (not what I expected) and to demonstrate what I mean, I have picked up for you to see what is also my favourite scene in the movie - the very start of the storm forming. There is more of that thorough the whole movie, but granted, nothing beats the fire tornado that I must admit was pretty smart, visually attractive idea that is also very terrifying.

I say job well done! Can recommend.