Storm Watch is a movie released in 2002, directed by Terry Cunningham and starring Adrian Paul

Adrian Paul

Adrian Paul Hewett , better known as Adrian Paul, is an actor best known for his role on the television series Highlander: The Series as Duncan MacLeod. In 1997, he founded The Peace Fund charitable organization.-Early life:...

 and Bai Ling

Bai Ling

Bai Ling is a Chinese actress known for her work in films such as The Crow, Red Corner and Wild Wild West, and in TV series such as Entourage and Lost. In 2011 she appeared in the fifth season of the VH1 reality television series Celebrity Rehab with Dr...

, the music was composed by Sean Murray

Sean Murray (composer)

Sean Murray, is an American composer, who has composed for numerous films, televisions and video games, such as God, the Devil and Bob , starring Alan Cumming, James Garner and French Stewart, Art Heist , Buffy the Vampire Slayer , True Crime: Streets of LA , Call of Duty: World at War , and the...

. The movie centers on a protagonist who plays a virtual reality

Virtual reality

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 online game

Online game

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, which suddenly turns into a race against time to stop a weather satellite

Weather satellite

The weather satellite is a type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. Satellites can be either polar orbiting, seeing the same swath of the Earth every 12 hours, or geostationary, hovering over the same spot on Earth by orbiting over the equator while...

 from destroying the world. This film was released on DVD and VHS under the title Code Hunter.

Storm Watch features special effect scenes reused from Virus

Virus (1999 film)

Virus is a 1999 science fiction-horror film directed by visual effects artist John Bruno and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin and Donald Sutherland...

, End of Days, and Set It Off

Set It Off

Set It Off is a 1996 action and crime film directed by F. Gary Gray, and stars Jada Pinkett, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox and Kimberly Elise , as four close friends in Los Angeles, California who decide to plan and execute a bank robbery...

. Clips from Virus include the alien energy hitting the Russian ship (in Storm Watch, it is lightning hitting a decommissioned ship the Army uses for a target); and the "Sea Star" tug boat caught in the storm (shot to be a natural storm, in this film it is artificial). The entire subway train miniature exteriors are from End of Days. The Chevy Impala

Chevrolet Impala

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car chase was lifted from Set It Off.