Hottoceame The Age of Commercialism

Micitype Pretty Good

PodBill Just what I expected

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Richard Cullen 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.

Prismark10 Asylum Film strike again with another weather disaster film. This was bad but strangely watchable even if it is a stinker. A volcanic eruption in Iceland sends the ash cloud over Europe and experts believe that it will block the sun for maybe 2 years leading to extreme drop in temperatures and rising tides. Already the bad weather is accelerating leading to snow storms that causes widespread disruption and chaos.Jeff Fahey an ace pilot had had his flight diverted to London. He drives through the Channel Tunnel (if that is even possible!) to meet up with his college aged kids, Ryan and Taryn.There is an emergency evacuation for some people to Australia as for some reason that will be immune to the effects of the weather from the blocked sun. Fahey and his family have a place on the plane but need to get to the rendezvous point.The kids need to survive the chaos in Paris as they have planned to meet their parents at the Eiffel Tower. However they lack warm clothing, one person wants to charge 20,000 Euros for each coat. Why does he think he will get a sale at that price? Who has that money in cash?So the kids shiver in Paris when they remember that the post production special effects will add snow so they randomly act cold, when they are not tripping at every opportunity or randomly meet bad guys who want to steal from them. One of them even gets to kick a giant snow ball falling from the sky like a football.The film has the usual cheapo effects that Asylum are known for and an inept script. This time they have even borrowed the incidental music from Doctor Who. Still they have some nice mock up of various European locations and it moves along quickly.Jeff Fahey and John Rhys Davies add some acting dignity to the film.

juneebuggy So yeah this made for TV "B" movie follows an American (played by 'Lost' alumni -Jeff Fahey) and his wife, who become stuck in England when disaster strikes and spend most of the movie trying to cross the channel (tunnel) to get to their two (loser) teenage children who are equally trapped in Paris -and quite frankly a little too "touchy-feely" for brother and sister. Anyways, the premise is that a massive volcanic eruption has ripped through Europe, bringing with it enormous ash clouds that block out the sun, thus plunging the continent into a new ice age.I am a total sucker for the "B" grade disaster movies but this was pushing it with just how much a viewing public will put up with. Bad, bad acting and dialogue (especially on the part of the teenage kids) and super cheesy special effects. I will say that it was at least unique in that it took place in Paris with the premise of evacuating humanity to Australia. 05.13

styrkrmunr Shoddy acting is the least of this pictures shortcomings. I would soley blame the director, but it is obviously far beyond that. The only department that didn't utterly botch their job was the costume department. Though I did find it odd that all of the soldiers wore cameo-patterned pajamas.In fact, it would be more at home being the Literary Arts homework of a third-grade boy. The writer, director, and producer of this film ought to be charged under Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 113C, Section 2340 of the US legal code. I have been more entertained mowing my lawn than watching this insult to the industry. Dry pasta has more taste and my vomit has more character. I pray that these men never again work in the industry. This film is too terrible to even be considered for a "bad movie night".