Slow pace in the most part of the movie.
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... View MoreVery interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.
... View MoreThe story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
... View MoreLeave your thinking-cap off. Whoever wrote the screenplay didn't have much of a clue about cold weather. As a Canadian, I doubt that these characters would be so immune to the cold on the Greenland Ice Cap and in "minus 40" (Celsius) weather, when London gets frozen over with ice.A family struggles to get together, (by sheer coincidences, in most cases), with a crisis every ten to fifteen minutes, (for TV commercial breaks), and mindlessly finds a way to escape every peril, (whether an airplane crashes or a building collapses). It's "The Day After" and "Earthquake" and every other disaster movie, with every trope played out by a half dozen characters, again and again.It's "green" propaganda at its worst. An oil company drilling rig searching for oil in Greenland knocks the Ice Cap into the ocean, stops the Gulf Stream Current, and begins a rise in the ocean level. Millions will perish, (as environmental disasters already have wiped out a few countries, by 2020); but, the important thing is this "family" being reunited. Oh, yes, and the polar bear researchers; let's not forget about them, (as, by coincidence, they come to the rescue, and provide an airplane, to keep this roller-coaster going), 'cause polar bears are an important part of the environmental propaganda.SPOILER WARNING.After two episodes, or one very long watch, one understands why roller-coaster rides only last a few minutes; it's not the need for toilet breaks, but the tedium that sets in after rounding the same track,again and again and again. Mercifully, (spoiler), there wasn't a family pet that needed to be rescued, (again and again); so I'll give this frozen turkey one star.
... View MoreThis is based on a great idea, and starts quite good. the first half an hours is quite OK, at least for a mediocre grade here, but then it deteriorates fast.It's full of both bad scripting, silly dialog, awful CGI and laughable ideas. The actors do their best, and there are quite a few great actors here, which is left with a ridiculous script. The longer into the miniseries the worse they struggle in doing their job.The worst is the extremely bad CGI. Even the ice and snow doesn't look like anything other than styrofoam. Simply laughable.Stay away, unless you have three hours to kill with less than MacGyver on DVD.
... View MoreWell, with this being a TV movie in mind, then "Ice" wasn't actually all that bad. But it was no "The Day After Tomorrow" either, although it essentially is the same.Storywise, then "Ice" did prove to be entertaining enough, although the movie was somewhat suffering from being predictable and stereotypical. But take it for what it is, and the movie is fun and enjoyable in itself.Effect-wise, well then "Ice" doesn't impress. The CGI were adequate enough, but what made the movie suffer was the horribly fake movie snow that was used in almost all scenes that involved snow, and the equally fake ice walls shown in the crevasse. It was so fake that even a blind person would point a finger and laugh. Seriously, despite being from 2011, the effects were better than such even back then.As for the people on the cast list, well they did good enough jobs with their given roles. People brought a good amount of enthusiasm and energy to the movie and their characters, which made the movie turn out to be more enjoyable.A lot of the scenes towards the end of the movie was starting to become too much, especially the amounts of snow that apparently had fallen in record time, and the degrees that they said were outside, yet the main characters were able to withstand that cold in thin clothing, and not a single hint of ice on their bodies. It was like time was running out and they had to wrap up the movie fast and efficiently. And that just made it seemed rushed and not believable in any way."Ice" does manage to raise something interesting to think about, such as man's constant quest for fossil fuel, man's disregard for the ecology of the world in which we live, and the heartless nature of the corporate giants. If you are one of those environmental concerned people, then this movie does manage to plant a seed for thought. So "Ice" does entertain and leave you with something once the end credits start to roll.
... View MoreWell let me start of by saying that i like disaster movies and i can overlook some things that aren't realistic in those kinda movies,but this movie just asked to much of me. A ice age that starts from really hot sunny weather in england to -40 degrees in less then 48 hours. OK i can look past that because i also did it with the movie Day after tomorrow,but the writers and director never ever heard of hypothermia and the effects that it has on a human body,because when people can walk around with jeans and a normal shirt and jacket and wearing no gloves for hours in temperatures of -40 degrees with only a case of really mild shivers just doesn't stick with me and my IQ and is just plain stupid,there is a scene where the climb a solid steel ladder in a elevator shaft with bare hands and it doesn't bother them at all. These are some of the stupid things that are happening during this flick but there are many many more highly illogical happenings that just made my mind spin.I still give this a rating of 5 because the effects where pretty decent for a TV production,the actors did a OK job but try to shut off your brain,because mine started to hurt after a while.
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