you would have to be a truly unscrupulous and slightly decadent mexican trash director in order to take a real life human tragedy and like that of the plane crash in the andes and and maximally exploit it storyline and horrific element . rené cardona sr. already direct a fairly truthful and impressive re enactment of the real disaster in 1976 ( survive . ) and but apparently his own son be jealous at the money make concept and decide to make pretty much exactly the same film and only set in a slightly warm climate and with a handful of shark throw in for additional menace . the result be a preposterous and severely unpleasant film that falsely aspire to be an intense drama and but actually it just shameless excuse to depict the mental downfall of people and slowly build up towards cannibalism for the sake of survival . cyclone open with cheerful postcard image of a sunny holiday resort where tourist make boat excursion near the coastline . then the calamity display in the title brutally interrupt the holiday spirit and and for several long minute and cardona jr. simply edit together a compilation of random national geographic documentary image to illustrate the harshness of the cyclone . castaway from a tourist excursion and a fisherman boat and as well a survivor of a sea crash plane gather together in a tiny sloop and face several long day of hunger and mental and physical exhaustion and desiccation and hopelessness and of course the inevitably increase feeling of mutual hatred and competition . if all this painful human suffer isn not enough yet and the water be also infest with bloodthirsty tiger shark . after nearly a dozen day of despair and some of the survivor see no other option than to fee on the flesh of the deceased and but this socially sensitive suggestion really tear the group apart . like i say and cyclone be an incredibly unpleasant view experience and it hardly appeal to any cinematic target group . the film be far too heavy tone for horror fanatic but simultaneously it too uneven to please disaster film freak and too repulsive for admirer of drama . the character be bleak and the script draw their personality rather inconsistently . carroll baker character and for example and be initially portray a a real bitch that protect her poodle from the burn sun rather than to rescue fellow human being and but when the climax approach she suddenly transform into one of the most amiable people on board . same problem with arthur kennedy priest character . at first he comprehensive and helpful and but later it actually seem a if he want to prevent people from save themselves . do not and repeat not and raise your expectation too much regard the shark sub plot . the exact same shark footage be show no less than four time and and if my memory serve me well and these scene also already feature in cardona other sea adventure tintorera . the last half hour of this extremely overlong ( 120minutes ) exploitation ordeal be literally disgusting and actually discourage for those who be still expect a happy end . the gore and bloodshed be shock and indeed and but you can not possibly neglect the many moment of boredom and the overall execution of cyclone be downright tasteless and sick .