Path of Destruction (2005) (TV)

User Rating:

3.8/10   

Director:

Stephen Furst

Writer:

Chase Parker (writer)

Release Date:

24 September 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi

Plot:

The movie opens with a faulty nanotechnology experiment that results in a massive, deadly explosion...

Cast

Danica McKellar	...	Katherine Stern
David Keith	...	Roy Stark
Chris Pratt	...	Nathan McCain
Stephen Furst	...	Terry
Franklin Dennis Jones	...	Colonel Thomas Miller
Richard Wharton	...	Dr. Van Owen
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ray Baker
Ryan Spike Dauner	...	Lab Coat #1
Michael Cory Davis	...	Eric
Griff Furst	...	Krieger (as Griffith Feuerstein)
Jeff Rank	...	Father
Jonas Talkington	...	Radio Operator
Raicho Vasilev	...	Bodyguard

Also Known As:

Death Cloud (USA) (working title)
Stratosphere (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

USA:120 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Australia:M | Norway:A (TV rating)

Filming Locations:

Seattle, Washington, USA

Company:

Armored Productions

Goofs:

Factual errors: A nuclear weapon also produces an EMP.

Eh.

Poor acting, mediocre CGI and technical ignorance abound in this time filler. Some of the plot points don't hold up to even the barest scrutiny. They draft a bimbo reporter to serve as bombardier when they have an entire base of Air Force personnel to pick from? They push for an EMP bomb over a nuclear blast (the biggest EMP bomb there is, BTW) because radiation is too non-directional like shotgun pellets? Dental braces attract lightning? Come on. And why are molecular disassemblers causing storms and hail anyway? Even the bad acting and video game quality CGI could be tolerated with a little technical competence. The underlying concept is OK but the execution is pretty bad. Trying to guess which eastern European country is substituting for Alaska (and the winner is...... Bulgaria!) was fun. And David Keith and Stephen Furst chew the scenery in amusing if one-note performances. Any time you can completely and totally describe a character with two words, like horny yokel or corporate greedhead, you're in trouble.

I've watched worse, though. And can't David Keith get any better roles than these second rate Sci-fi channel crapfests? Every month he's in at least one (two this month) of these celluloid WMD's. He used to be somebody. Maybe he figured, "Hell, I'm already in Bulgaria filming Epoch 2, I'll just knock another one off while I'm over here". Maybe the beer's cheap. Who knows.