I am a real sucker for disaster movies, and try to find something of value in even the worst of them. This one has no real redeeming features at all.
"Spoilers" Follow The science is beyond preposterous. If the "poles" shift as they have in the distant past, it would produce new poles, not an evenly defined equatorial region north and south of the equator by a precise latitude. That's why they are called "poles", something the bumpkin writer of this turkey apparently never grasped. And why would temperatures drop to absolute zero? Nowhere on Earth is a temperature absolute zero, including the poles. The best laboratories can come close on tiny samples. And for that matter if Miami were absolute zero people wouldn't be flying around in helicopters and there would not be tall buildings covered with snow on the landscape, and a special laboratory that somehow was impervious to it all... and... and... good grief, this is a see to believe disaster.
The plot is jumbled together, makes no real sense in any way other than that almost every disaster movie gimmick and stereotype is thrown in. There is the greedy bad guy, the evil military, the dashing scientist romantically involved, the nerdy kids, the cutesy little girl -- everything but secret radiation of some sort. People are sort of randomly killed off for no reason at all, and other than bringing you closer to the end you really don't care much about them.
Add in bad acting, amateurish special effects on any budget -- one of the big props is a computerized compass needle.
Ouch, this is a disaster of a movie, not a disaster movie.
"Spoilers" Follow The science is beyond preposterous. If the "poles" shift as they have in the distant past, it would produce new poles, not an evenly defined equatorial region north and south of the equator by a precise latitude. That's why they are called "poles", something the bumpkin writer of this turkey apparently never grasped. And why would temperatures drop to absolute zero? Nowhere on Earth is a temperature absolute zero, including the poles. The best laboratories can come close on tiny samples. And for that matter if Miami were absolute zero people wouldn't be flying around in helicopters and there would not be tall buildings covered with snow on the landscape, and a special laboratory that somehow was impervious to it all... and... and... good grief, this is a see to believe disaster.
The plot is jumbled together, makes no real sense in any way other than that almost every disaster movie gimmick and stereotype is thrown in. There is the greedy bad guy, the evil military, the dashing scientist romantically involved, the nerdy kids, the cutesy little girl -- everything but secret radiation of some sort. People are sort of randomly killed off for no reason at all, and other than bringing you closer to the end you really don't care much about them.
Add in bad acting, amateurish special effects on any budget -- one of the big props is a computerized compass needle.
Ouch, this is a disaster of a movie, not a disaster movie.