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Movie Reviews of Absolute Zero
Movie Review: You Don't Watch This One for Scientific Accuracy
Summary: 2 Stars
It is easy to poke fun of ABSOLUTE ZERO. It is an end of the world as we know it film, full of scientific implausibilities and impossibilities. Still, there is just enough human drama that somehow manages to fizzle through the generally low level of scripting, FX, and hamminess. Jeff Fahey is a scientist who discovers that the earth will soon encounter a phenomenon called Pole Reversal. Under this scenario, the earth's poles exchange relative position, an occurrence which has happened many times during the earth's 4.5 billion year history. Exactly what would happen to the planet is still unclear but it is unlikely to result in a capsizing or tilting of the earth on its axis. ABSOLUTE ZERO is a weird blending of a deep freezing America from the film THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW with a capsized earth from the novel THE HAB THEORY. Much of ABSOLUTE ZERO is full of teasers that lead up to the climax. The opening scenes of a melting Antarctic ice cap are truly interesting. The long dead remains of a frozen human being dated from just before the last capsizing further pique the viewer. Jeff Fahey gives a competent performance as one who tries to convince his disbelieving boss that it is already too late to do anything but evacuate any area near the equator. Erika Eleniak is his erstwhile girlfriend who has since married another, had a child by him, and now must care for both despite the oncoming upheaval. The FX are third rate, which one expects from the shoestring budgets of the SCIFI channel. The last few minutes are no more than the ticking clock of most disaster films that do not get decided until the very end. Even viewers not well versed in science will undoubtedly gape in disbelief at the implausibility of events. What emerges from watching ABSOLUTE ZERO is the realization that it could have been a much improved film had director Robert Lee focused more on the drama and less of the melodrama of a truly monstrous catastrophe of biblical proportions.Movie Review: Could have been better
Summary: 2 Stars
Absolute Zero is only interesting for its story about climatical change and polar shifts. The rest of this performance is poor to very poor.
The story in itself is allright, let alone some scientifical errors. Not to mention that Jeff Fahey plays David Kochman, and not a guy named Koch. The acting is average and the SFX are sometimes poor.
But it's the characters that are most annoying. Fahey's boss is only concerned about money, and has it so bad that he tries to grab some fallen papers, when the cold sets in. So he dies. Pretty convincing character, guys!
This student Phillip is also very annoying, even when time is running out and everything will be frozen, he is still begging for a date with the girl. I say STUPID, no one is that lame!
And don't forget, Science is Never Wrong. That's the catchphrase in this movie, and that's beside boring, not true. Read Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, in which is explained that the perception of science changes through times, example: Copernicus and Galilei.
So Science is Never Wrong, even this little girl exlaimed it. Weird, kids about her age rarely have interest in science, so that's stupid character #3. She and her mom doesn't even cry when daddy dies....
It was already too late when I discovered that the director and writer are the same from another lame movie Volcano in New York. That was bad, this performance is not better. So this movie is hardly worth two stars. Two, only because I'm interested in this theme. Luckily CineTel Films are producing a film about this theme, simply called Polar Shift. I'll just wait for that one, while Absolute Zero catches dust on my shelves!
Movie Review: ABSOLUTE NONSENSE
Summary: 2 Stars
This straight to video release suffers from a low budget, a lack of imagination and an incredulous plot. Seems like the earth's poles are shifting and soon Miami and the southern US are going to be the new Antarctica. Of course we have the brilliant scientist who knows it's going to happen but no one believes him; the lovely ex-flame of the scientist; the corporate exec whose greed won't allow him to admit he knows the scientist is right; and the cute college couple who romantically banter back and forth.
Jeff Fahey does his best Rod Steiger impersonation in an over the top performance and Erika Eleniak looks like she wishes she were back in Baywatch.
For fans of disaster films, it's mildly entertaining but too preposterous to make an impact.
Movie Review: Terrible
Summary: 1 Stars
Terrible Movie...I Wish I could return it and get my 5 dollars back. The fact that it's low budget is not even an excuse. The acting is beyond bad and the story line is terrible.
-One of the main characters loses her husband in a phony... unreal tragic scene and she barely sheds a tear. I stress {A TEAR} literally.
-The main scientist/lead actor is in some ice cave at one point that is several hundred feet below the surface and his friend is killed...At this point you figure the main character is trapped with ice falling and the cave that he was in was caving in. You'd think the director would use this window to thrill us on how the scientist managed to get out of such a tough situation. Nope. As soon as the friend dies, they cut to the next scene where the scientist is in some lab doing test. This left me wondering for the rest of the entire movie.. HOW DID HE GET OUT OF THAT SITUATION?
It's like if you were watching a movie based on a plane and the bad guys were killed, but the plane is flying unmanned. You would want to know how the hero landed the plane. It would be a huge let down for the hero to kill all the bad guys and then the next scene is the hero at the hospital receiving minor medical treatment. You want to see how the hero landed or escaped the unmanned plane scene.
- Irony- The lead scientist is concerned about the Earth's polarity, the temperatures, and global warming. His concerns are so great and deeply rooted that he drives around in a Hummer (H2) getting 9 mpg while emitting 3.4 metric tons of carbon emissions per year. Yes this scientist is really concerned about the earth.
-As temperatures reach absolute zero--The cast is running towards a safe room that is suppose to protect them. Well, On the way to the room, the lead scientist's boss stops running and decides to collect some contract papers or something and dies as the ice freezes him. Pretty realistic... The entire Miami area is being frozen and the boss is worried about contracts.
Please do not buy this movie..Unless you like laughing at bad acting, terrible plots, and terrible animations. I'm pretty sure you could find all the explosions used in this film by searching for "explosion gif" in any search engine. I can not believe this movie came out in 2006 or at all for that matter.
Movie Review: Absolute Boredom.
Summary: 1 Stars
Absolute Zero is a disappointing ripoff of The Day After Tomorrow. The characters are insufferable. The hero scientist spent the first 1/3 of the movie discovering the oncoming ice storm, the middle third trying to convince people it was coming, and the last 1/3 outrunning it.
While trying to warn Miami of the pending big freeze, the scientist meets his long-lost love, who's married to someone else. Her husband conveniently gets knocked off. How better to provide the proverbial "happily ever-after" ending? Neither the daughter nor the wife shed a tear for his death, but they do stop running long enough to say, "Gee, I miss Dad", to which the wife replies, "Me too, honey." This is followed up by some serious, heartfelt sniffles and a painful narrowing of the eyebrows.
And the tension keeps on mounting...
Every movie needs controversy...so, the writer tossed in a nasty tempered corporate executive who values money over human life. No cliché there, right? For extra romance we're given two college students who exchange boring and obnoxiously unfunny quips with the other.
Ho-Hum. Who needs sleeping pills?
Maybe I missed something. Within moments after the killer storm put Miami into the deep freeze, a rescue helicopter appears in the building's skylight. It's come to save the scientist and his group. Two questions. Why didn't the skylight and the helicopter freeze like everything else outside? How did the helicopter know where to find them? Maybe I dozed off when that part was explained.
Oh, well. I really don't care. I didn't care that those who died, died, and those who lived, lived.