the audience applauded

Boring, long, and too preachy.

A Disappointing Continuation

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

I can't understand all the negative reviews that this movie received. I thought it was a well acted and fast paced film that explored several important themes such as, climate change, drought, natural disasters and political corruption. The Cassie Has Dreams segments were eerie and very atmospheric, in fact I thought the whole thing was one of the better offerings that we have had. It is nice to see that important issues are finally being addressed in films like this. It is a nice change of pace and proves that we can do an intelligent disaster movie, if there is such a thing. I have lived through both bush fires and flood and I have seen the devastation of both and I would like to see more films like this, especially since climate change is a very real problem that we are all facing.

I have just read the reviews of this show by a number of alleged viewers & I am at a loss as to what they think they actually viewed. It was convenient, in hindsight, that the date of the supposed action was "5 years in the future". This makes the date irrelevant with regard to it referring to any particular year, 2012, 2013, 2025 or any other year as obviously if I watch it now (2011) it becomes 2016. In any case the film should have been released in 2007 to be "5 years" in the future of 2012. Some reviewers were unable to figure out how long the drought was. One, was unable to use the automatic spell checker & obviously did not read his review - how long has anyone lived in "Sidney, New Soth Wales". The same person also doesn't understand that the abbreviation PM means Prime Minister when the reference should have been State Premier (or just Premier), and since when have we "brung" anything.Unfortunately, some reviewers also may have spoken in 'tongues'. I have lived in Australia for more than 60 years & I still don't know what the AIIMS... is, incidentally the ABC might mean American Broadcasting Corporation (or Company, or .....). Please, space out acronyms as full words at least once in your review as not everyone knows what they mean.Thanks to those members of the Australian Rural Fire Service for their input on how it actually related to the Service Aussies are very proud of these people who volunteer their time (mostly FREE) to help others. It should be appreciated that real fire-fighters thought enough of the film to even make comments, it also shows how seriously Aussies take the danger of bush-fires & willingness of everyone to chip in. Of course the actual supposition that there is 'absolutely no water anywhere' to use to fight bush-fires does stretch the imagination, just a l i t t l e {LOL}. There are so many creeks & dams around Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (and all Australia) that the drought would have to have been a lot, lot (many lots) longer than 200 or so days of the film. Even when the film was made some localities in Australia were in areas declared drought for a lot longer than that.Well, after all that my review of the film is that while it is definitely not in same league as 'Armageddon', 'The Day After' or other similar disaster movies, it was a film worth watching, especially for those who like the nitty-gritty of the interaction between persons who could be 'you' (or/and maybe 'me').(NOTE: LOL = laughing out loud)

this could possibly be the worst TV movie ever. Way to many plot holes and terribly written i cant believe this ran for 2 hours! they cut so much out of it. Im ashamed to even be in NSW its a lame attempt in trying to make a movie based on 2012 (so called Apocalypse) and on the bushfires over the past several years. "Set 5 years in the future. "After years without rain fire engulfs the entire city." this really confused me the fire didn't even reach sydney! just smoke. And what is it with the soap stars? they brung 2 home and away stars who barely had a role. there was no emotion in this. The only good thing in the movie was "Cameron daddo" he done a great job

Scorched premiered on the 31st of August 2008 on channel nine. I saw the advertisement for it on the television and was immediately drawn to it because of the list of well known Australian actors forming the cast. (Cameron Daddo, Georgie Parker, Libby Tanner, Rachel Carpani and Vince Colosimo) The tele – feature is set in Australia's largest city, Sydney, in 2012. The city is in drought and hasn't had rain for 240 days. There are only two weeks of water left. It is Christmas time and the city is circled by massive, out of control bush fires. Scorched follows the stories of different families as they fight for their lives and their houses in a bush fire emergency dubbed 'Armageddon'. We watch as fire fighters desperately fight to control the fires, until suddenly, there is no more water left to fight with. In a twisted web, uncovered by a CPN (fictional news network) journalist, the city's water has been lost in a deal made by the premier of NSW. I believe this is one of the greatest films Australia has produced. It excellently portrays the struggles of the people trying to save their properties and lives. It shows the bravery, dedication and fighting spirit of our fire fighters in a superb manner. Having experienced Sydney's summer bushfires, I feel this is an outstanding portrayal of the real disaster of bush fires. The theme of the film is also centred around water management and lack of fresh water in Australia, and is a way of showing potential problems of the future. All in all the film was exceptional. The acting was brilliant, along with direction, writing and producing. This film is one of my favourites of all time, and is a real example of the excellent productions coming out of Australia today. There will be a DVD of the film released in November. The film is also a multi platform drama. There is an online drama that leads up to the film, and websites that relate to the events portrayed in Scorched. These links are available on the channel nine website.