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Movie Review: I've seen better, I've seen worse.
Summary: 3 Stars
Which version of "10.5" were all of you watching? Yes I will admit it wasn't the greatest disaster movie out there and some of the special effects were obviously fake ( like that scene when the quake swallowed the moving train.) , but I give it 3 stars (3 as in I thought it was Ok) . From what everyone who reviewed this movie said, it made me think that it was a horrible piece of crap. I have seen better disaster movies and I have seen worse disaster movies. It must have been sort of boring to me because I fell asleep for about ½ an hour in the middle of it, but when I woke up it didn't seem like I missed anything. This movie did have the clichés you would expect from a made for TV movie, but its just one of those movies where you can sit back, shut your brain off, get a bag of popcorn, and enjoy. Don't try to anaylyse it. IT"S A FREAKING MOVIE!!!Movie Review: Looong movie.!
Summary: 3 Stars
Just like many other movies this one starts very good, but then keeps going and goin,..and going, and you just can't find where the climax of the storie is, the rescue scenes are endless, the cast is real good, but the storie doesn't seem to go anywhere and the movie is almost 3 hours long, special efects are also good, not quite a collectors item or a great find for disaster movies lover.Movie Review: THEYRSA WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN GOIN ON
Summary: 3 Stars
I can't help it, I just cant. This movie is like a train wreck, you just help but watch it. Kim Delaney trying her best and delivering a sense of urgency to her role. Beau Bridges as the president trying to come across as tough but caring. The special effects are great, and the action is nonstop starting right from the beginning. Fun to watch, and yippee, a sequel is now at hand.Movie Review: Low ranking but hold on
Summary: 2 Stars
Gee, it was until I watched this movie when I became able to understand why some reviewers get so angry at some movies or novels. I had never seen characters as stupid, immature and obnoxious as the ones from this product. I've been open minded to several movies -you can see it in my reviews- but this one was too much, and this time I do agree with all reviewers who have disliked this product for the same reason I just mentioned. Do you think we are exaggerating? Check just two small pieces:
-In one scene, a girl and her dad found a town buried by an earthquake. She insisted on hearing some music from the ground, so his dad went to search to look for people to help, but then she asked her dad why he went when there's nobody, and keept bothering all along. Did she have X-rays to see underground? Anyway, this perfectly rich-spoiled-brat would definitively win -if existed- the Jerk Nobel prize and graduate with top honors from PhD jerk studies from Harvard.
-In another scene, the California's governor's top assistant gets her couple throwing a fir over the phone and calling her repeatedly about why they don't have children (or else, I don't care) while the earthquakes eat California and Washington.
The movie starts with a big array of people acting up and demanding attention for themselves while caring nothing whatsoever about other people's problems, no matter there's an emergency state. The classical monsters like vampires, dragons, demons and the like are nothing compared with the stuff you see in this movie. Later on, as anybody can image, everybody is asking forgiveness and telling how much they actually loved each other, over and over all along the movie. I like emotions in movies for sure, but this was plain disgusting to me..specially for 3 hours! But if this is the type of scenes you like, you'll get tons of it in here! And you'll rank it 5 starts! As for me, I really thank the ones who invented the DVDs which allow speeding movies up so I don't need to put up with so much baloney as I would with the old VHS. Today we can see only what we want from a movie. Well, let's pass to the interesting parts.
This movie seems to be a reply to the current anti-fear-mongering wave I've noticed lately. This wave is led by Conservative (or the like) people. The top example could be Michael Crichton's (creator of Jurassic Park, ER, Rising Sun, Sphere, etc) latest novel "State of Fear" and his web site where he displays a big deal of arguments and critics against all the media that keep the whole world under constant fear about everything. But this movie shows the government risking millions of people in order to avoid general panic. So, the government initially rejects the fear-mongers who predict huge catastrophes. This is interesting but it's still a movie and what I've read from Michael Crichton and others is likely to be real. At least the movie writers seem to have done some decent research. Moreover they did well in presenting all predictions and solutions in the movie as speculations. It was actually interesting hearing the scientific arguments of Dr. Hill who sees the problems and solutions. That may have been good hard science fiction.
Unfortunately these interesting aspects were far from the movie's core, which was emotions and more wild emotions with lots of people caring and caring....no matter they oppose actual solutions...all the time. You'll see that some people get to be evacuated and then the president (so charmingly caring) wants to let them go back home immediately but Dr. Hill has to convince him to wait ridiculous 24 hrs to make things sure. This was too off real world as well.
Regarding the special effects, some people didn't like them but I did. If this is what you're looking for I strongly advise you to speed the movie all the time without action scenes, which in fact are not many. You can tell this was made for TV in several scenes. Some people thought that it was too long as a movie, but once again, it all depends on what you like. If you like emotions and special effects, this shouldn't matter to you, other wise keep away from wasting your time with this thing.
Movie Review: Does anybody screen these things before or after production?
Summary: 2 Stars
After hearing some hype about this movie, I thought it might be a good film to watch on a lazy Saturday afternoon. "Disaster" flicks were popular when I was growing up (Volcano, Dante's Peak, Asteroid, etc.), so I've learned a suspend a little disbelief over the years. This film, however, was hardly worth the time.
My first dislike was the fact that this "disaster" was scientifically impossible. Again, when it comes to disaster films, one must suspend a little disbelief, but this film blantly disregarded geological science. I'm not a geologist personally, but I've taken college-level courses in that field and know plenty of geologists who are practically crying because of the impossibility of "chain reaction" earthquakes tearing California off the coast. Yeah, okay, some may say that "nothing in science is for sure fact", but this film is basically like writing a screenplay for a "disaster" where scientific experimentation has caused gravity to intensify seven fold unless the hero can find a way to reverse one of the universe's strongest forces.
My second dislike was the acting and the dialogue. None of the characters were memorable ones. There was a dad and daughter in the forest, a wimpy president, his buddy who runs FEMA (before Katrina, clearly), some doctors, a few family members, a governor, two scientists, and state office assistants. Believe it or not, are all tied together by three degrees of separation, everyone except some ridiculous bike guy who rides around, escaping a falling city around him. None of their subplots were remarkably exciting. The only way I could distinguish them was by knowing that some had worse acting than others. There were some one-liners that I seriously wonder what agent would ever pick up a screenwriter who writes that kind of stuff (especially since I'm trying to find one myself and my writing is (I'm told) much better).
The third dislike was the action and graphics. On a scene where the Golden Gate Bridge is in trouble, the cars perched on there are clearly Matchbox cars, without a doubt in the world. Watching them fall into the water had me laughing myself to tears. The Seattle Space Needle collapse was poorly done through use of computer-aided graphics. Even the cracks that formed from the quakes were too fake to let pass. Granted, it was a low budget flick, but seriously.
This movie made the classic movie mistake of overdoing the action sequences and underfilming them. There are at least four scenes where the same 4-second shot is taken from different cameras to expand the time used to 16 seconds. Additionally, some action sequences were occurring that weren't necessary. For example, is it really necessary to show 15 car crash sequences when an earthquake occurs? Wouldn't only 3 or 4 happen and then all drivers would be stopped? Furthermore, how is it possible that all these scientists have such little time to solve the problem, but can create these amazing graphical presentations with flashing map images and beeping sounds?
To summarize, most disaster flicks require one to suspend disbelief. Some of these flicks, such as "The Day After Tomorrow", are reaches that could be assumed to happen if conditions were really, really bad. This movie, however, was produced by someone who never consulted a geologist or even a first-year college student who took a mandatory geology course. Coupled with weak actors, poor dialogue, and dry action sequences, 10.5 flops on its face. If you're someone who likes campy 4-hour disaster movies and don't care if the science is accurate or not, then this would probably be a decent movie for you. For the rest of us, you're better off spending that time doing something else. I only give it 2 stars (vs. 1) because, as a writer, I can see that this script originally had hope and, had its screenwriting, dialogue, and actor choice been changed, it would have been much more successful.