This was shown on the SyFy Channel in the UK so I had a pretty good idea it was going to be a low budget piece of made-for-TV entertainment... what I didn't realise was just HOW low budget it actually would be.
From the outset, the film sets its standards low with poor quality special effects and over-acted bad acting, and it doesn't really improve from there.
Throughout the movie, which follows the age-old ethos of all B-movie disaster films, so many questionable decisions are made by the stars, who manage to narrowly avoid disaster at all points in their effort to make it across to New York to find their daughter as a glacier destroys the whole of North America.
Sci-fi movies do require the viewer to release their grip on reality just a little bit to make the script ring true, but in this the acting is poor, the special effects even more so, and the plot line so full of holes even somebody with the wildest imagine (my 12 year old son, for example) struggled to find the story even in the slightest bit believable.
Instead, we chose to find entertainment in spotting the continuity errors (of which there are many), the low-rent graphics (at one point the car they are driving becomes a CGI version in order to get away with an otherwise-impossible J-turn at a junction) and the clichéd plot, which struggles to hold your attention.
Worth watching if the battery's expired in your remote control and you can't be bothered to get up and turn the TV over...
From the outset, the film sets its standards low with poor quality special effects and over-acted bad acting, and it doesn't really improve from there.
Throughout the movie, which follows the age-old ethos of all B-movie disaster films, so many questionable decisions are made by the stars, who manage to narrowly avoid disaster at all points in their effort to make it across to New York to find their daughter as a glacier destroys the whole of North America.
Sci-fi movies do require the viewer to release their grip on reality just a little bit to make the script ring true, but in this the acting is poor, the special effects even more so, and the plot line so full of holes even somebody with the wildest imagine (my 12 year old son, for example) struggled to find the story even in the slightest bit believable.
Instead, we chose to find entertainment in spotting the continuity errors (of which there are many), the low-rent graphics (at one point the car they are driving becomes a CGI version in order to get away with an otherwise-impossible J-turn at a junction) and the clichéd plot, which struggles to hold your attention.
Worth watching if the battery's expired in your remote control and you can't be bothered to get up and turn the TV over...