The really good thing to say about this movie is the title is correct.
This movie reeks of film-school student work. Like the typical high-school paper that has to follow all the rules and regulations in writing the paper, this movie seems to follow some set, or in some case, immovable guidelines.
This movie contain most of the obligatory elements of a movie of this genre....
The top-notch scientist working for a money-hungry bureaucrat,
The "Lab" wooing the military into buying something that may or may not work,
The Old Scientist/Alchohalic,
The Old Lover, now married with a daughter,
The now-mother using product placement; in this case a pair of cheap Radio Shack walkie-talkies (I can say that because I sold them.),
The Little girl, with the modern-but-stupid hair style and on-again-off-again lisp, with the voice of a duck, often saying "Mom," like "Mmmmom!", and who knows Spanish at the "doctorial age" of 8,
The "self sacrifice," where one scientist tells the little girl, "It's OK, I'm alright, go hide over there in the pipe. I'll be alright," which is followed by one of the WORST CGI effects ever seen on national TV, the man dies when a supposed downdraft hits everything, but other places look just fine.
The problems solved by one computer, two big-screen TV, two half-wit grad students, the Hero, and the Trophy wife/mother and daughter combo, fighting to prove that they are correct and the team of over 1,000 scientist from around the globe are wrong.
SPOILER:
AND...(Plot hole), The temperature is supposed to be -439 degrees F. HOWEVER, as our unlikely survivors sit in a cozy greenhouse, they hear a Coast Guard helicopter flying overhead. Now come on! The fuel running the helicopter would be in a gel form if not rock solid hard. How can it fly?
AND FINALLY, the biblical death of the greedy man.
This movie reeks of film-school student work. Like the typical high-school paper that has to follow all the rules and regulations in writing the paper, this movie seems to follow some set, or in some case, immovable guidelines.
This movie contain most of the obligatory elements of a movie of this genre....
The top-notch scientist working for a money-hungry bureaucrat,
The "Lab" wooing the military into buying something that may or may not work,
The Old Scientist/Alchohalic,
The Old Lover, now married with a daughter,
The now-mother using product placement; in this case a pair of cheap Radio Shack walkie-talkies (I can say that because I sold them.),
The Little girl, with the modern-but-stupid hair style and on-again-off-again lisp, with the voice of a duck, often saying "Mom," like "Mmmmom!", and who knows Spanish at the "doctorial age" of 8,
The "self sacrifice," where one scientist tells the little girl, "It's OK, I'm alright, go hide over there in the pipe. I'll be alright," which is followed by one of the WORST CGI effects ever seen on national TV, the man dies when a supposed downdraft hits everything, but other places look just fine.
The problems solved by one computer, two big-screen TV, two half-wit grad students, the Hero, and the Trophy wife/mother and daughter combo, fighting to prove that they are correct and the team of over 1,000 scientist from around the globe are wrong.
SPOILER:
AND...(Plot hole), The temperature is supposed to be -439 degrees F. HOWEVER, as our unlikely survivors sit in a cozy greenhouse, they hear a Coast Guard helicopter flying overhead. Now come on! The fuel running the helicopter would be in a gel form if not rock solid hard. How can it fly?
AND FINALLY, the biblical death of the greedy man.