User Reviews

The plot idea was sound enough (after all, it worked well for the blockbuster that inspired it). Sadly the execution was very sloppy - even by The Asylum standards.

The caricatures (you can't say that they were developed enough to be characters) never develop in any way that encourages the audience to care about them at all. As usual there is a mentally underdeveloped son in the family. I'm not sure why The Asylum is so keen on this feature. Surely they could either write the part for an older teen or cast a younger actor? They drive to the Channel Tunnel - which is strangely being guarded by Eastern Europeans in US-style combat gear. Some attempt has been made to show a location - by placing a still photo of a Eurostar sitting in the tunnel mouth. It would be still, of course, as there is no electrical overhead wiring and, as we soon discover, no track in the tunnel either seeing as they drive through it in the Eastern European-registered car that they somehow obtained in the UK.

Also, it seems that the storm is so bad that all the roads in France have vanished.

The RAF also now wear US uniforms and use American ranks (although, at least they used a couple of Brits to play the parts). Really, though, how hard would it have been to use the right uniforms and ranks? Not at all. It just emphasises how lazy the production were being.

Now, they chose to film in Hungary. How much extra would it have cost to film in the UK or France where they could have used actors with appropriate accents and uniforms? There is doing a film on the cheap, and then there is producing something so lazily that it really does not deserve to have been produced.

It is actually annoying that I know of local actors and directors who can produce films of higher standards than this on a four-figure budget, yet their work remains unbroadcast.

It's so bad it's actually a great film. The plot is a mirror of Day After Tomorrow, just with worse acting and no film continuity. Some great one liners and heartfelt (not) emotion.

There was obviously no pre-filming research done by the production team: in the UK we drive on the left, have our steering wheels on the right, and the Channel Tunnel isn't a road link; only rail. They did get the logo right though. Product placement?

What was great about this film is the awfulness. It's hysterically funny without being a made as a comedy. It's a disaster movie in every sense of the word. Fantastic. I only didn't give it 10 stars because the sets didn't wobble. That would have been worth the final two stars.

John Rhys-Davis gave a star performance as a British Officer whilst wearing an American officer's uniform. Just about sums up this film really...

Paris is a city of some 7 million people, and they all evacuated in 10 minutes, leaving the main kids the city to themselves for most of the movie. This movie begs for IMDb to re-insert its message boards, just so we can make fun of movies like this. The dwarf dude from Lord of the Rings provided the only drama when he made the plane wait an extra 10 minute before taking off. How many times could the main kid run into the girl he was checking out earlier in the film?

The brother and sister in Paris have one job. To fall down . . . constantly. So they flail their arms around or fall flat on their backs. And they never just get up. They lay there until someone helps them up. But the sister kicks a soccer ball size hailstone out of the air with her foot with no injury. The plus side is there are lots of nice street views walking around Paris. And how does John Rhys Davies go from LOTR to this? SPOILER ALERT: How is the key to being rescued, from a Paris experiencing constant earthquakes, to climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower? Because there couldn't be a place to land a helicopter in all of Paris. They are literally surrounded by places to land. And then a tornado comes? And still, they keep falling down. And then the Eiffel Tower falls down! Onto the Arc de Triomphe, which is 2 km away.

First of all I have to start out by stating that this particular movie is a production from The Asylum, so any avid movie fans should by now already know what they are in for here with this movie.

And yes, it delivers as expected, just as most other productions that is spewed out by The Asylum. This movie have all the trademarks that usually comes with their movies; questionable acting, thin storyline, two-dimensional characters that you don't really get much around to actually care about, and of course horrendous CGI effects.

So why do people watch these? Well, I watch them because they are so bad that they are actually fun to watch. I like to see in just what way do they manage to come up with something even more bad than in previous movies. And they never fail to amaze.

The story in "100 Degrees Below Zero" is about the volcanic ash cloud that spread from Iceland some years back, so they take point in an actual event, but just take it a notch beyond. This cloud quickly spreads to abnormal proportions and threatens to cover most of Europe in a perpetual layer of ash, blocking out the sun and bringing about with it a new ice age. Steve (played by Jeff Fahey) and Lacey (played by Judit Fekete) have to race to get to Steve's children in time before the dreaded winter claims Europe.

Well, story-wise, then it is a fairly 'straight-from-the-script' press as far low budget disaster movies go. There is nothing innovating or breathtakingly new to be seen here.

The effects in "100 Degrees Below Zero" were bad, yes, but not actually amongst the worst I have seen in this particular type of natural disaster movies. However, you just never for a single second bought into the destruction and mayhem that was supposed to take place in Paris, where most of the movie took place. It was just not very convincing or believable.

As for the acting in the movie, then it was a rather dull experience, even with semi-famous names like Jeff Fahey and John Rhys-Davies to the cast list. And the acting by the two playing the children was just laughable, and I kid you not that they were actually spending more time rolling around on the ground than they did standing up. I was laughing so hard at this, it took no more than a mild gust of wind to knock these two over. It was so bad!

I will give the movie some thumbs up though, as it, unlike so many other disaster movies, didn't have a pathetic ending where the main characters end up saving the entire world by thwarting a natural disaster.

If you enjoy bad natural disaster movies, then you will definitely find some enjoyment in "100 Degrees Below Zero", otherwise you might want to stay clear of this and find something more enjoyable to watch.

This is a must for Asylum fans. All others avoid this film. I couldn't stop laughing.

The film follows a typical Asylum formula for disaster films. While the world is coming to an end, parents try to reunite with their children. On your Asylum column marked "Disasters" please check the following: volcano, ice age, hail, earthquake, sun blockage, ice cyclone (hand write "ice" in front of cyclone, then check).

The German scientist (Iván Kamarás) speaks with an accent. The word "model" he pronounces "moe-doe" until 12 minutes into the film when he begins to pronounce it correctly. Like many films, it has subscripts showing the location which are typed in with accompanying typing noise in the background. In the first few instances the typing noise needlessly continues after the letters appears.

Dad must travel from England to France. He manages to get a car with the steering wheel on the left side and finds roads where he can drive on the right side. Who would notice a guy driving in England on the wrong side of the road with a car with the steering wheel on the wrong side?

This film also boasts one of the worse uses of a defibrillator. The operator used it over the clothes, no lubricant. Ryan (Marc McKevitt Ewins) is immediately revived after that.

The film makes for a great drinking game too. Everyone needs to do a shot every time Ryan is knocked to the ground. SPOILER: After doing a half dozen or so shots, you will need to do three quick ones at the end.

The acting and dialogue are typical Asylum grade. It promises to be hopelessly bad.

No f-bombs, sex, or nudity. 10 Asylum stars for lovers of bad films (1 star for everyone else) This was a stinker.