Descent (2005) (TV)

User Rating:

3.2/10   

Director:

Terry Cunningham

Writer:

Michael Konyves (writer)

Release Date:

21 May 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Go Deep!

Plot:

When the Ring of Fire starts heating up with an unprecedented amount of volcanic activity a team of scientists are gathered to prevent a global catastrophe.

Plot Keywords:

Ring Of Fire | Burned Alive | Trespassing | Nature Run Amok | Volcano

Cast

Luke Perry	...	Dr. Jake Rollins
Natalie Brown	...	Jen
Michael Dorn	...	General Fielding
Rick Roberts	...	Dr. Palmer Drake
Brandi Ward	...	Dr. Karen West (as Brandi Marie Ward)
Mimi Kuzyk	...	Marsha Crawford
Michael Teigen	...	Black
Mike Realba	...	Decker
Adam Frost	...	Captain Hayward
James Downing	...	Major McEwan
Jefferson Brown	...	Seth
Martin Roach	...	Man in Black
J.C. Kenny	...	News Reporter

MPAA:

Rated PG for disaster action, some sensuality and mild language.

Runtime:

Canada:90 min (Ontario)

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Canada:14A (Ontario) | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Dundas, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Premiere Bobine

Goofs:

Factual errors: In the final scene, Marsha Crawford says to the reporter, "It's time the public learn of the causes of these natural phenomenon." The plural of phenomenon is phenomena. Her character has a scientific background and should know this.

Quotes:

Dr. Jake Rollins: You guys ready to do your thing?
[i.e. place a 4000 megaton nuclear bomb]
Major McEwan: Tell us where you want it; we'll set the activation.
Dr. Jake Rollins: I've uploaded the Spartan coordinates. The placement has to be pretty precise.

Don't waste your time unless you need a good laugh........

This movie is a great movie ONLY if you need something to sit and laugh at the stupidity of it. As a geologist this movie gets most of the important facts wrong and uses actors that are too young to even be considered in the top of their fields. It is interesting how it shows spurting lava in massive caverns below the Earth's surface. It also is funny how seismically active areas are shown to have massive destruction from a 6.5 magnitude earthquake. They seem to forget the building standards in these areas would be higher needing a bigger quake to do this much damage. Also it is funny how much they make the coast line of Washington State and also Oregon to look as though they are nice beaches of Southern California. The Jelly donut analogy is very entertaining even if the way it is used is wrong. The director does a good job of adding more comic relief with the 2 "supossed" PhD's.