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Movie Reviews of Absolute Zero
Movie Review: Great movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
Sure, it's a low-budget, campy movie...but that's what makes it great! Good acting, bad dialogue, and special effects. Definitely a must see if you like low-budget sci-fi movies.
Movie Review: Absolute Zero
Summary: 5 Stars
Jeff Fahey gave an excellent performance. This was a great disaster film where the climate changes giving one something to think about.Movie Review: Looks like our friends at the American Meteorological Society have some explaining to do
Summary: 4 Stars
What a sad and depressing world this would be without low-budget disaster B-movies like Absolute Zero to entertain us. Where else, I ask you, are you going to find men and women donning space suits in order to traverse a frozen ledge outside an office building in a suddenly sub-arctic Miami? Or delight in patently fake news stories about fishermen suddenly raking in crate after crate of completely frozen crabs from the ocean? This isn't a very good movie, if you want to get all technical about it, but it's just the kind of cheesy science fiction thriller I live for.
The possibility of a magnetic pole shift is something you're likely to hear more and more as we approach December 21, 2012 (the end of the Mayan calendar). The science of the matter is complex and exceedingly iffy, what with polar wander, geomagnetic reversal, and whatnot, and the cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis is just that - a hypothesis. One thing we can be sure of is this: if such a cataclysmic pole shift ever does take place, things will play out much, much differently than the way they do in this film. The science of Absolute Zero is almost absolute zero itself, as the proposition underlying this whole story is that a magnetic pole shift is a sudden event that will not only encase the tropical regions of the globe in ice of epic proportions within a matter of hours, but that the temperature corresponding with this spontaneous new ice age will actually reach absolute zero. For those who aren't of a scientific bent, absolute zero is the rock bottom temperature on the universal temperature scale. It goes without saying that no life form can survive under such extreme conditions; hypothetically, even molecular motion (kinetic energy) stops at this temperature. This film would apparently have us believe that absolute zero only hurts you if you touch it.
From the discovery of an ancient body and primitive cave drawings in a newly revealed cave deep in Antarctica to the sunny yet soon-to-be frozen beaches of Miami, Dr. David Koch (Jeff Fahey) serves as our guide into the frigid unknown. While his corporate boss schemes to make untold riches saving the planet from a shift-induced new ice age over the next couple of centuries, Koch and his colleagues (a fellow scientist, that scientist's wife who - unsurprisingly - is Koch's true love he abandoned a decade ago, two grad students, and a precocious eight-year-old girl) try to sound the warning that Florida is going to turn into a proverbial popsicle within hours. Nobody listens to them, of course - not until it's too late, anyway - and the rest of the story primarily focuses on their attempt to survive the unsurvivable.
If you're thinking that someone has actually made a natural disaster film that doesn't pin the blame on global warming, think again. It's true that a magnetic pole shift in and of itself has nothing to do with global warming, but this film's premise is that global warming has caused a change in the very geography of the earth, and it is that change which has led to the magnetic pole shift. Still, at least the film it doesn't beat you over the head with global warming alarmism every chance it gets, so that's definitely a plus. I would offer the idea that Koch's boss is actually a good representative of the global warming crowd, though - all he cares about is the money he can get the government to fork over for his project, and he has no qualms about holding back crucial scientific data in his pursuit of the almighty dollar.
In any event, I must say that Absolute Zero is a fairly ridiculous little disaster film - and that is why I got such a kick out of watching it. Cheesy dialogue, less than spectacular special effects (I'm willing to bet there were a number of painters who could have retired on the money they made painting backdrops for this project), dull characters, a steady supply of dumb comic relief in the midst of catastrophe, a determined effort to never let actual science get in the way a good science fiction story - these are faults only a bad movie junkie could love.
Movie Review: cute sci fi
Summary: 4 Stars
A cute sci-fi film depicting disaster and climate change beyond anything ever imagined. Know that this is not a high budget film or a classic in the likes of other well known distaster movies.Movie Review: The World is Always Changing
Summary: 3 Stars
Absolute Zero, 2006 film
The film begins on frozen land. Scientists are measuring conditions. A crack opens in the ice! Next we see the Florida shore by Miami. The radio talks about a storm. A experiment reverses the polarity in a room with a startling effect: the temperature plummets to absolute zero. "Science is never wrong." The military has deep pockets for research. Dr. Katzman is sent to Antarctica. There is something new that needs investigating. Melting polar caps can change the shape of the earth. What is buried in the snow and ice? A storm threatens their work, it has high winds that cause damage and the loss of their records. In Miami fishermen harvest crabs that are frozen! Dave asks for a test on paint scrapings, their iron will show polarity.
The news tells how birds are migrating north earlier than usual. We see personal conflicts. Old legends tell of an era of darkness, an ice age. The news tells of an iceberg showing up in Miami harbor! Fear can attract funding from the government. If the polarity between the North Pole and the South Pole shifts slightly, it can result in strange events. Will it mean a climate disaster? In just a few hours? Who will believe this terrible prediction? People go about their daily lives. Storm clouds appear on the horizon. Snow falls, ice forms on land, and people try to leave the area. [Can the roads handle thousands of cars?] A high wind blows a car away. Can they find a refuge? The temperature continues to plummet. Never take the elevator in an emergency situation! Do you know how to escape when trapped in an elevator?
A explosion on top of the building creates more damage. They all head for the lab and its promised safety. But first they must go outside in the cold due to a damaged staircase. [Is this padding to fill out the time?] There is drama here as they try to return inside. "Hold on!" Dave finds and rescues the manager. Will he become as frozen as Lot's wife? Outside there is but snow and ice, death for most people. Who is left behind? "¡Hola Miami!" Then a helicopter arrives in a rescue. "Such a disaster has never been known in recorded time." But people survive in a New World Order.
This was filmed in British Columbia. I couldn't tell from the outdoor scenes. Were most of those actors Canadian? This is pretty good for a low budget movie for TV or drive-in theaters. This science fiction movie is good but not great. I've read there are coral formations under the arctic seas. Was this due to the movement of the earth's crust, or the effect of a polarity change as portrayed in this movie? Heraclitus said the world is in a constant state of flux. While "science is never wrong" is a truism, science is the product of humans. Errare humanum est. This film is worth watching for its interesting story of a possible change in climate, even if it is less probable than a nuclear winter. Global warming in the Middle Ages allowed grapes and a wine industry in southern England, and people lived on Greenland from the crops grown there. Who knows if we will see those days again?