Why so much hype?

Touches You

One of my all time favorites.

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

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.

This was the worst film I have ever watched and believe me I have seen heaps, bad acting, bad timing and poor special affects make this film a total disaster which should never have been released on DVD. I laughed when I saw Jeff Fahey frying around the world in a small plane trying to save his kids who were apparently stuck in Paris and according to my experience of going to Paris was certainly not Paris, it was more like a cheap set that had been put together by a bunch of kids with little effort from the art department or production designers which add the very negative review that I'm writing. My opinion if you want a good disaster film watch films like War of the Worlds or St Andreas stay away from this garbage and save yourself 5 dollars for the renting cost.

R.D. Braunstein directs this exciting and near epic motion picture depicting European volcanic eruptions creating dust clouds sending the continent into another ice age. A visionary screenplay by Richard Schenkman and H. Perry Horton tells the moving and suspenseful story of an American couple trying to escape the catastrophic freezing by returning to Paris before there is nothing left but a massive waste of ice. The imagery is haunting as the camera pans across vast vistas of Antarctic proportions upon which humanity must somehow survive. Jeff Fahey gives another superb performance, portraying a average man in extraordinary circumstance, forced to heroic dimensions by the compulsion to save loved ones. The distinguished actor John Rhys-Davies is amazing in his role as a military officer literally trying to save civilization and brings added gravitas to this stunning film. With superior special effects, brilliant writing, and superb direction, there is no denying the staggering power and overwhelming excitement that is 100 Degrees Below Zero.

I spent most of this film, supposedly set in sub zero temperatures, wanting to do up the jackets of every actor in it (assuming they were wearing one at all) - yes it really was THAT bad.In order for us to be entertained there has to be some degree of believability about the film. Third rate special effects (just not acceptable nowadays) do not make for a disaster movie, more a disastrous film. It didn't help that acting of the wife, or maybe her script, were dire. She had less maturity than her teenage daughter. My husband laughed out loud at the effects when ... well I don't want to give the plot away... just in case curiosity gets the better of you. I have seen some films in my time which had awful ratings and enjoyed them...but not this time.