Ice (1998) (TV)

User Rating:

4.7/10   

Director:

Jean de Segonzac

Writers (WGA):

Roderick Taylor (written by) &
Bruce A. Taylor (written by)

Release Date:

22 July 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure

Plot:

After the whole North of the Equator freezes below zero, a group of people in Los Angeles risk their lives while trying to "escape" from the city's hostile conditions, in order to take a ship to a hotter place on Earth. |

Plot Keywords:

Submarine | Looting | Architect | U Boat | Los Angeles California

Cast

Grant Show	...	Robert Drake
Udo Kier	...	Dr. Norman Kistler
Eva La Rue	...	Alison
Flex Alexander	...	Kelvin (as Flex)
Audie England	...	Julie
Michael Riley	...	Greg
Kyle Fairlie	...	Max
Art Hindle	...	The President
Diego Fuentes	...	Zapata
Kristin Booth	...	Jessica
Gordon Michael Woolvett	...	Soldier (as Gordon M. Woolvett)
John Bourgeois	...	Dr. Golding
Elias Zarou	...	Dr. Tyson
Peter Virgile	...	Chief of Staff
J.C. Kenny	...	Newscaster

Also Known As:

Eis - wenn die Welt erfriert (Germany)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violence.

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

Germany | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

UK:PG | USA:PG-13

Company:

Alexander/Enright & Associates

Movie Connections:

References Dirty Harry (1971)

Not bad for a TV movie.

I was actually impressed by this. It's nothing spectacular, of course, but it's better than a lot of stuff in the apocalyptic genre that makes it to the big screen. Well-paced, well-acted (although the characters are slightly annoying), and good FX; you can't ask for much more than that. Plus I found the idea of people in LA faced with an ice age amusing.

My main complaint is that the details of the weather change are abrasively inaccurate. I doubt any Hollywood person actually knows what cold weather is like. I had the same problems with the recent "Alien vs. Predator," where the characters apparently don't need anything more than a light jacket to stay warm and toasty in Antarctica. Here, we have people walking around in negative 60 degree weather without hats or gloves on, and they are perfectly fine (seriously, they'd be dead in five minutes). The thing that irritated me most was when two people came indoors after being outside in the frigid cold, obviously about to die, and yet they are still able to dexterously move their fingers. Give me a break. At that point they wouldn't even HAVE fingers.

Well, personal complaints aside, it's not a bad film, and I suppose it is a notable addition to the mediocre natural disaster genre.

6/10 stars.