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Absolute Zero

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4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(12)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

This movie reminds me of the first science fiction movies produced in the 50's when cardboard props swung from visible strings. It is, by far, my favorite film. From phony looking props, backgrounds, and atmospheric phenomena, to award-removing scripts, soundtracks, acting, and production, this film is, by far, the best warm pile I have ever stepped in. My favorite scene is when the older scientist falls on the soft snow in a cave during a tremor. The ground shifts just enough to make him lose his balance, he gently falls to the floor, and he is left sitting upright with a small scratch on his forehead that suprisingly enough, kills him a moment later. Then, the main character, in a feable attempt to express his utter devastation over the loss of his best friend, an otherwise undeveloped friendship until this moment, puts on his most insincere facial expression as he says, "Awe cheezed" or was it, "Awe geeze", or maybe "I cheezed", all of which seemed as inappropriate as the massive head injuries sustained by his beloved friend, and mentor. I would like to thank the producer for missing this flurb, for it has given my girlfriend and I a stress relieving catch phrase we use in response to life's many aggrevations. So America, when life throws it's worst at you, curl your nose and form the most unattractive facial expression you can muster up, and say, "Awe cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezed" hahahaha.....

I love end of the world disaster movies. This one ranks as the most scientifically inaccurate one I've ever seen. My husband, a former 8th grade science teacher, decided if he ever goes back to teaching, he'd have his physics class watch this movie as a final exam and write everything that's wrong with it. I think they'd need a full 24 hours... (Someone freezes as the "absolute zero" cold approaches, yet someone else maybe 30 feet away is perfectly fine?) It's good for a laugh, and the acting isn't as bad as a lot of these movies. I'd recommend this to a group of college friends who plan to have a couple drinks and make fun of the movie. This ranks about equal with Solar Attack, and I'd say it's better than Dean Cain's Post Impact.

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.

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.

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.

I bought this movie because I LOVE disaster movies. I liked the special effects (although a little brief), I liked the idea of the problem.
The acting, however, was a little...missing. Jeff Fahey's idea of acting is doing a LOT of yelling, deserved or not. The death of one of the characters wasn't taken seriously (no, I won't say who it was), and the Jerk didn't get his due in a timely fashion.
I enjoyed watching it, but it is a typical B movie. I don't know I'd watch it again, but I might have the flu someday. :)

This has to be the funniest movie I have ever seen. The sad part is it was supposed to be serious. It had to be the most ridiculous movie I've seen, from the awful actors to the idiotic story line that includes an iceberg in the Miami harbor, the very predictable reunion of two old lovers made convenient when the present husband of the former girlfriend gets taken out by a virtual palmtree thru the windshield, and the scattered bursts of below zero weather sandwiched between otherwise 80 degree weather. One of my favorite parts was when the scientists had to go outdoors to get to another building when the temperature was already like 355 degrees below zero and still dropping dressed in paper thin looking spacesuits. Another favorite was the helicopter showing up about 5 minutes after the temperature hit minus 459 and flying directly over the shelter the scientists had sought refuge in. I guess they put Prestone in the fuel to keep it from freezing solid, as the same must have been done to the window on the roof, the only two things in the whole city that somehow went unscathed by the absolute zero cold. The boy and girl attempt at romance was goofy beyond words, and the money hungry executive was the worse job of over-acting this side of James T. Kirk.

I actually enjoyed watching this movie...I like very bad movies. The acting level was about on par with the scientific accuracy, pretty much non-existant. The only fact they got straight was that the magnetic poles did, indeed reverse about 10,000 years ago. I could fill up pages with what they got wrong. Disaster movies don't have to be scientifically feasible to work, but enough factual base to give it that "yes it could happen" twist does help. This movie might as well have claimed that the reason the tropics were about freeze to absolute zero was because giant extra-terrestrials with Co2 fire extinguishers were spraying from space so they could go ice-skating around the planet.
If you enjoy a movie where you find yourself hoping the main characters don't survive to reproduce and you gleefully wonder why you enjoy wasting so much of your time on it, this is a good one to check out.

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.

This movie lives up to it's name, in fact the writers are probably still laughing at not only coming up with the title but getting paid minimum wage to write the script. This movie is pure garbage, your time is better spent watching weeds grow than viewing this "masterpiece" Erika Eleniak, the only reason, most people watched this, looks like she gained 40 pounds for this movie. Don't waste your time!