Zodiac: Signs of the Apocalypse (2014)

When a mysterious planet crosses the sun, global catastrophes are unleashed. A rogue scientist is the key to deciphering the symbols and humanity's only chance at survival.

Director:

W.D. Hogan

Writer:

David Sanderson

Stars:

Joel Gretsch, Aaron Douglas, Reilly Dolman

Cast

Cast overview:
Joel Gretsch	...	Neil Martin
Aaron Douglas	...	Agent Woodward
Reilly Dolman	...	Colin Martin
Emily Holmes	...	Kathryn Keen
Andrea Brooks	...	Sophie
Ben Cotton	...	Marty Fitzgerald
Christopher Lloyd	...	Harry Setag
Douglas Chapman	...	Agent Tyler
Russell Roberts	...	Dr. Bowles
Raf Rogers	...	Joel
Wolfgang Klassen	...	Agent (as Jeffrey Klassen)
Jessica Storm Smith	...	Jennifer

Storyline

Archaeology Professor Neil Martin hasn't done field work in fifteen years, ever since his divorce and needing to take care of his son, Colin. Now twenty, Colin convinces his father to accept an assignment offered by Kathryn Keen of Poly Dynamics, a research company that tries to find solutions to global issues. That assignment, which continues the work of a now deceased Professor Robert Bowles, looks into an unusual find in a lead mine in Peru. After traveling to the site with Colin and Kathryn, Neil believes the find, a tablet with some astrological glyphs, including one of Planet X - the ninth planet - is part of a key to some recent natural and destructive phenomenon, including a couple of meteor storms, one which killed Dr. Bowles and one which almost killed Colin. They also uncover a seemingly radioactive stone buried behind the tablet. He believes the stone and the tablet are only parts of the puzzle to the reason behind the destructive natural phenomenon, twelve which will ...

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Plot Keywords:

disaster movie | 

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Genres:

Action | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

16 August 2014 (USA)

Also Known As:

Zodiac: Signs of the Apocalypse

Filming Locations:

British Columbia, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

Cinetel Films, Zodiac Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

When examining the Zodiac model at the Peruan lead mine, Professor Martin (Joel Gretsch) speaks of a "two thousand-year-old analogue computer" discovered in Greece. This is a reference to a real device, the Antikythera mechanism, a complex clockwork device that can predict astronomical positions. It is believed to have been built in 150 B.C., and was found in a shipwreck in the Aegean Sea.

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Goofs

When in the bunker looking at the signs that had already occurred and predicting what would be likely for cancer the sign they were looking at is Pisces.

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Connections

References Back to the Future (1985)

User Reviews

Total Cliché Fest

Worst special effects ever and most clichés in the book. OK so its a made for TV movie but there are some standards worth adhering to like plausibility for example yes even in a fantasy. You immediately feel sorry for Neil Martin (Joel Gretsch) that he's the father of the dumbest most self satisfied... (My University professor dad is so stupid) ...half wit in the land. A boy, Colin Martin (Reilly Dolman) with so little intuition or empathy, not to mention an annoying smirk of self satisfaction that right the first moment you are hoping he gets struck by lightening. Also this thing of the characters watching as a disaster rolls towards them when you are screaming "Run, run you dumb... 'chappie, fellows...' (you know what I mean)" is so insulting to the intelligence. Yes I can understand people freezing and dying on the spot but not almost dying because they are just too dumb to move, especially as one is a professor, "Ooh look Cleetus, duh there's a big bolder coming down from duh sky and its going to hit us if we don't duh move!" The boy rubbishes the father's every theory and suggestion. He needs a good slap!. This kid was serving coffee from a stall at the beginning of the movie with no apparent understanding of science. "Plausibility?" You'd think that the father would have had a smarter son, unless of course he was doing booze and smoking grass in his younger child creating days or at least mom was. Meanwhile they've acquired a girl called Sophie (Andrea Brooks) also a scientist... kind of, and during a chase scene, between her and the boy, they run through a gamut of hysterical physical emotions that would take most movies two hours to justify. Anyway the plot rumbles on using every cliché in the book, narrow escapes, implausibly long fights and a member of the CIA in a helicopter so small he could only just fit next to the pilot. The CIA running out of cash? Perhaps the production company was. Just what Christopher Lloyd is doing in this movie is anybody's guess, still I did enjoy his ten minutes (or thereabouts). My favourite scene in the whole thing is the very last scene, the tying up of loose ends where Joel Gretsch makes a speech to camera meanwhile behind him, his son and the girl who have shown virtually no interest in each other, suddenly make meaningful eye contact - if you know what I mean - and go into an immediate embrace behind him thrusting their tongues down each other's throats. THAT had me rolling in the aisles. Truth be told, it was a lousy script and a tight budget that did for this movie..... in my opinion.