10.5: Apocalypse
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Movie Reviews of 10.5: Apocalypse
Movie Review: A Near Disaster
Summary: 3 Stars
You have to suspend disbelief to some degree to enjoy any disaster movie, but the follow up to 10.5 requires a bit more than I'm comfortable with. The action was decent and the acting was alright, but there were some fundamental flaws in the premise and conclusion that were really hard to swallow. There were a few subplots going on that really didn't enhance the story for me, but they were worth enduring to get to the next action sequence. If you enjoyed 10.5 as I did, then you'll probably enjoy seeing what happens to our heroes next.Movie Review: It's all about FX
Summary: 3 Stars
It's all about special effects. Some of which were spectacular, the crevasse snaking across the midwest being one. Also glad the "Woodstock" film effect was dropped in this edition, an improvement over 10.5 in my estimation. Meaningful character development and storylines? Not here. However, it is pure entertainment for a couple of hours. So hunker down with your popcorn and get set for some big screen thrills.
Movie Review: If you've seen one you've seem them all.
Summary: 3 Stars
If you've seen one made-for-TV geological disaster movie, you've seem them all. This is just like all the others, and I like it because I enjoy disaster films. Expect cheap computer graphics and a predictable plot, but it's fun to watch.Movie Review: Could have been better.
Summary: 3 Stars
Not the best disaster flick I've ever seen but not the worst either. Some sections are slow others boring or to long but if you want a clean movie to while a way a lazy day, watch this one.
Movie Review: Soulless disaster movie goes through the motions
Summary: 2 Stars
10.5
(USA/Germany/Canada - 2003)
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
TV soundtrack: Dolby Digital
Once upon a time, US network television produced memorable, must-see miniseries' like ROOTS, FATAL VISION, HELTER SKELTER and THE ATLANTA CHILD MURDERS, movies with real grit and integrity. Nowadays, they produce rubbish like '10.5', an unmitigated disaster in every sense of the word, in which an earthquake in Seattle triggers a sequence of equally devastating tremors - each one worse than the last - which seismologist Kim Delaney believes will culminate in a massive, landscape-altering quake along the West Coast. Naturally, the l-o-n-g bits between disaster set-pieces (including the destruction of San Francisco and a spectacular climactic deluge) are populated with boring characters mouthing the usual soap opera clichés, while the scenes of destruction are as dramatic as they are scientifically unsound (ie. there's no such thing as a '10.5' earthquake; the Golden Gate Bridge was built to withstand even the most violent tremor, and will NOT collapse during seismic activity; nuclear explosions CANNOT seal faults in the earth's surface, etc.).
The script is utterly predictable throughout (virtually every character is divided from their loved ones, either geographically or emotionally, yet the quakes bring them together in the end and, yep, make them all better people as a consequence - puh-leeze!!), and Beau Bridges plays the President with such overstated 'fortitude' and 'compassion', he comes off looking like some godawful televangelist, and is just as convincing. Even worse, David Foreman's largely hand-held camera-work - a swirling mess of zooms and zip-pans, borrowed from TV's "NYPD Blue" and designed to convey a sense of realism where none exists - seems calculated to drive viewers up the wall. The much-heralded visual effects are only intermittently successful, and most of 'em look like what they are - CGI images (EARTHQUAKE, SAN FRANCISCO and THE BIG ONE: THE GREAT LOS ANGELES EARTHQUAKE contain much better depictions of widespread devastation). Appalling stuff, directed by John Lafia (CHILD'S PLAY 2 - 'nuff said), and promoted under the titles '10.5: Apocalypse' and 'Earthquake 10.5'.