I actually registered at IMDb today so I could "discuss" this piece of dreck. Others have touched on it. I agree, helicopters cannot take off from a cold start. The Appalachians are now as big as the Rockies? Chasing faults as they appear? That's worse than speeding away from pyroclastic flows and massive explosions.
Creating a new Grand Canyon with some explosives? I don't care how many tons you've got. Where is all that dirt and rock gonna go? It goes down? Is the earth hollow? Nothing blasts up? I guess the only thing that blasts upward is shrapnel from gas pipelines that can take down a C-130 by clipping its wing. Amazing how those air force pilots can't land to save themselves but the dad and little girl on board are only shaken up.
Shall I go on? LASER satellites that shoot cold down to the ground to freeze a rupturing fault. Uh, yeah, sure, why not? And of course, the Osprey with the botoxed star whose lips remind me of one of those old "Clutch Cargo" cartoons, gets its tail caught in the "cold beam" while rescuing the only people driving an RV in the entire Midwest and nearly crashes, but it can't because SHE is on board.
And of course, the fault has caused all the airport control towers and beacons to go down so all the airplanes are "flying blind"!!! Dang, I guess that shrapnel has taken out the GPS satellite system too, and the pilots can't look out their windows!! You know the ice beam is not going to work because the movie is only half over, so what can be more exciting? YES!!! OF COURSE!!! The fault goes north heading for the super volcano caldera under Yellowstone and is going to set it off causing the dreaded "mass extinction". Earth is DOOMED. And this leads to the funniest bit in the movie. We see shoe soles of the pedestrians melting to the asphalt and then their feet, hands and heads all erupt in CGI flames!! WOOT! That right their earns the one star I am forced to give this film.
I'm done now although I wonder how Eriq LaSalle got roped into this. Is he really that hard up? Is his little brother one of the producers? He looked dazed and confused, he certainly didn't have to put much effort into it.
SyFy : Imagine: Dreck!
Creating a new Grand Canyon with some explosives? I don't care how many tons you've got. Where is all that dirt and rock gonna go? It goes down? Is the earth hollow? Nothing blasts up? I guess the only thing that blasts upward is shrapnel from gas pipelines that can take down a C-130 by clipping its wing. Amazing how those air force pilots can't land to save themselves but the dad and little girl on board are only shaken up.
Shall I go on? LASER satellites that shoot cold down to the ground to freeze a rupturing fault. Uh, yeah, sure, why not? And of course, the Osprey with the botoxed star whose lips remind me of one of those old "Clutch Cargo" cartoons, gets its tail caught in the "cold beam" while rescuing the only people driving an RV in the entire Midwest and nearly crashes, but it can't because SHE is on board.
And of course, the fault has caused all the airport control towers and beacons to go down so all the airplanes are "flying blind"!!! Dang, I guess that shrapnel has taken out the GPS satellite system too, and the pilots can't look out their windows!! You know the ice beam is not going to work because the movie is only half over, so what can be more exciting? YES!!! OF COURSE!!! The fault goes north heading for the super volcano caldera under Yellowstone and is going to set it off causing the dreaded "mass extinction". Earth is DOOMED. And this leads to the funniest bit in the movie. We see shoe soles of the pedestrians melting to the asphalt and then their feet, hands and heads all erupt in CGI flames!! WOOT! That right their earns the one star I am forced to give this film.
I'm done now although I wonder how Eriq LaSalle got roped into this. Is he really that hard up? Is his little brother one of the producers? He looked dazed and confused, he certainly didn't have to put much effort into it.
SyFy : Imagine: Dreck!