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Post Impact

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

 

 

One might expect this to be a cheap rip off of DAY AFTER TOMORROW, which it isn't, but it's not a great movie in its own right, merely passable entertainment. A comet crashes into the European countryside, sending that part of the world into a frozen wasteland. Now three years PI (post impact), some crazy person is using a satellite to "control the world"---for what reasons we're never sure of. But macho hero Dean Cain leads a group of soldiers into a frozen Berlin where the satellite is being controlled, in efforts to stop the madman from destroying more cities. The CGI effects are fair to middlin, but the plot is slow moving and there aren't that many surprises in store. There have been a lot worse movies in this genre, but there have also been so many better.

From a first look 'Post Impact' might appear as a cheap imitation of 'The Day After Tomorrow.'

While it contains elements from 'The Day After Tomorrow' it's an entirely different movie and in some aspects better than 'The Day After Tomorrow.'

The movie's CGI and Special Effects are by 'Hollywood' standards 'B' but in terms of storyline I found it superior than 'The Day After Tomorrow.'

It's a good European production that had a strong element of realism and wasn't strung together either by 'ooh' and 'aah' explosions, excessive sex or violence or mind numbing amount of sepcial effects and CGI.

I recommend to everyone to watch 'The Day After Tomorrow' and then watch 'Post Impact' and compare the two, you might be surprised.

Thank you for your time and I give inspirational and written credit to the poster before me who expressed his/her opinion about the misconception that 'Post Impact' is a 'cheap' imitation of 'The Day After Tomorrow.'

Who finances these movies? You know the movies. The ones that look like they had a decent budget but the script was so badly written that you're positive you could have done better. Well, this is one of them. I'm a huge fan of the apocalypse/post-apocalypse genre, as well as anything sci-fi, but so many of them are killed by bad scripts, bad science, and bad acting. This movie happened to have absurd props too, despite the aforementioned decent budget. If I as a highschool dropout can point out technical and scientific flaws every few minutes, isn't something wrong? A pillar of ice poking through the bottom steel plate of a tank?!?! A satellite which was meant to beam microwave power to a ground station being in a non-geosynchronous orbit? People shrugging off gun shot wounds like they're scratches. Military personel bickering like teenagers? I really should move to wherever they're making these films because apparently they can benefit from my middle school education. It really breaks my heart when someone has the money to make a decent sci-fi movie, and they pay so little attention to things that cost no money to fix.

Nifty bit of sci-fi hokum that you can watch on a dull evening when there's nothing else on TV.

Dean Cain is okay as soldier Tom Parker trying to get back to his family in Berlin after a Meteor strike has left the earth covered in ice and snow.

When a military command centre realises that a long forgotten experimental satellite is still operational, an expedition is set up to find the base from where it is controlled which just happens to be in what is now known as the "death zone" a place that was once Europe.

However it soon becomes clear that the Satellite is under hostile control and the first expedition is wiped out but the second one manages to make it to Europe and so begins a long trek across ice and snow to find out who or what is controlling the satellite.

When the expedition finally get to Berlin, Parker and his colleagues, all military except for one female scientist Anna Starndorf played by little known actress Bettina Zimmerman find that a group of survivors have made a new home in the subway system of the former German city. Anna like Park is trying to find out if her family, i.e. her father (also a scientist) survived the deep freeze and to her joy she finds out he is among the survivors.

However nothing is what it seems, and we have quite a few surprising twists and turns in the plot before the satellite it is back under friendly control and Parker can finally find out what happened to his wife and daughter.

The special effects are mediocre, the acting average and we have the orphaned girl that Anna and Parker take under their wing along the way with a loveable husky called Sass who saves the day on quite a few occasions so all in all it is a movie that you could call cheesy.

Despite this I enjoyed watching this movie; it was easy to get into, had a twist in the tale and also had a nice happy-ever-after ending that few movies now-a-days have which I liked being the big softie that I am.

Here we are in Berlin, when a meteor unexpectedly crashes into Europe, causing a global ice age and chaos. Our protagonist is Tom Parker (Dean Cain), who was responsible for security at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin. Tom manages to get all sorts of key personnel onto the last plane leaving Berlin, but he inexplicably asks his wife and daughter to wait next to a wall while he gets onto the plane, whereupon some senior military person says, too bad, and smacks Tom around a little to prove his point.

A few years pass by and it appears that someone has left a light on in Berlin, so the government decides they need to check it out. Unfortunately, a super secret American satellite that someone set up to control only from Berlin destroys the plane carrying the team going to check out the activity in Berlin. Obviously there is more than just a light on in Berlin, there is some insidious activity. Further, the satellite is now positioned to take out the new government, and governments tend to get annoyed by things like that. So, a second expedition is put together to stop the satellite before it can be recharged. Of course Tom Parker is going with the expedition to see if his wife and child survived the cold and are waiting for him.

The expedition gets to Berlin and gets two really cool snow tanks. Of course there is the usual stupidity (every B science fiction movie has to have some stupidity of the plot stalls out) and one tank is lost right away. Soon the second tank is lost when it is attacked and the budget costs for the obviously animated tanks goes down.

It turns out that there are more than just a few people left in Berlin, and while their life is difficult, they seem to be doing reasonably well. Of course, there are those who have decided that they are going to destroy some portions of the world to get revenge on those who abandoned them. Then there is the person on the team who wants to destroy a different target altogether. The plot gets convoluted in an attempt to distract you from its increasing implausibility.

This movie is somewhat complicated, and suffers from the complexity. There is the plot device (the meteor), but on top of the plot device are at least four other plots. Unfortunately this movie does not have time to fully exploit all the various plots, so one plot I never so coming, and I thought to myself that throwing another, completely unrelated, plot into the mix was a bit bizarre. I said, "Huh?" and shook my head.

The good point of this movie was the snow tanks, though the animation was weak. After that, this movie is essentially a low budget disaster film, rehashing the "meteor hits the Earth" theme once more, but not doing it nearly as well as other movies where the meteor hits or nearly misses (for example, "Deep Impact" or "Armageddon"). I suppose if you collect movies about global disasters, you should probably have this one in your collection, but be sure to set your expectations low.

This "film" (and I use that term loosely) is horrible. The script / timeline is broken, the effects are third rate and any resemblance to reality is a mistake. When Cain leaves his family standing there, that was it for me. I bought this for $3.00 and I paid too much.

I'm a big fan of Disaster films, so when I saw "Post Impact" at the video store I decided to check it out. The premise of Post Impact is pretty much the same'ol same'ol. A gigantic comet is about to collide with earth, drastically altering the Earth's climate. An obscure scientific project headed by heavily accented Germans(this time a satellite controlled "Microwave" ray-gun), is used to try to deflect the comet. Unfortunately, the ray-gun is unsuccessful, plunging Earth into a new Ice Age.

Despite some rather cheesy CGI (the snow tanks), and some bad acting (primarily on the part of the British agent, and the scientists), I rather liked Post Impact. Dean Cain when not sporting a beard isn't too hard on the eyes, and the plot was entertaining, if a bit far-fetched.

I give this film 3 stars. If it weren't for a really sappy ending and some uninspired sets, it might've been great.

I really like this kind of movie. It has all that you look for in a good B movie. Obviously low budget writing, sets, saved by good actors doing a competent job. So if you like a fun B/TV movie then this is the one for you.

This movie is so bad you would be better off ordering this to replace your Frisbee or use as a coaster. I rarely want to go to my garage and get the hammer out to bash my DVD's, but this one did the trick. I couldn't think of reselling this to some other unsuspecting soul.

I would give out the background story on this movie, but seeing as quite a few reviews beat me to it already, I would only be wasting time in telling how the movie went because it was very accurate on the storyline as the movie played, so I'll tell you what I feel about the movie in general.

I watched this movie on the Sci-Fi channel a couple of years back, thought it was brilliant, but sad, and kinda lost touch of the movie afterwards until now. I think the movie deserved a lot more than the low-star reviews it received, considering the battle-action scenes and the scene with snow in the North African desert. Dean Cain is excellent in this movie! Another great movie added to my collection. Five stars all the way! You have to buy this to believe it.