Darin
One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
Art Vandelay
Yet another made-in-Canada, paid-for by Canadian taxpayers, piece of Canadian movie crapola. The Canadian Film Development Board (or whatever it's called) should have taken the money it wasted on this film and just sent the five actors to acting school for a couple of weeks, followed by a one-way ticket to Hollywood. Let them take their chances. How does ash fall from the sky when nothing has erupted yet? How does magma flow knock out cell phones, cable TV and presumably radio? Why does the nearby bit city appear to be abandoned? The ''disaster'' epicenter is close enough to that big city you'd think some scientists at the local university would be monitoring seismic activity. Instead the entire city's safety appears to be in the hands of two small-town emergency-response clowns. Grampa and the two obnoxious kids getting stuck in the bomb shelter is a metaphor for movie viewers being stuck watching this, dreading the end of the world. Canada needs to stop making movies. We're not very good at it.
john-4316
Nothing I could write could spoil this movie. The filmmakers and writers have already done that simply by making this horrible movie. Obviously the writer did not pass a 5th grade science class yet at the end of the movie they have the nerve to leave an "Ecological" message based on fact. Something about how this has happened in the pass and drilling may cause lava flows in the future.This is idiotic as the deep well oil drilling is at 3-4 miles. The earth's crust runs from 15 – 40 miles thick. There is nothing man could due including use of nuclear weapons to cause lava to flow in this manner. They try to blow up a dam with a RPG which is impossible, and they are standing directly below the damn in the stream bed when they try to do it. I kept telling myself it only a movie. But it's a movie that is not even based in possible realm of reality. Don't waste 2 hours of your life skip this one.
aliway
I really don't know what to say, apart from repeating the summary.First of all, the bit at the end saying the film's events could happen, now, I'm not an expert, but I find it hard to believe one volcano going off could destroy the world. That segment didn't even try to make me believe, more telling me off than reasoning.Then we have so many boring scenes. The photograph montage, the looking at each other for a few minutes without saying anything, a scene of them driving, these are just a few of them.And there's very bad special effects, for example a very fake dam, and they couldn't even be bothered to show us the house exploding properly, just in a reflection. Also, when lava hits the bottom of the house, it does not cause the top of it to explode it seconds. It may rupture a gas pipe and cause the whole house to explode, but not the top.Also, where the Hell is everyone? We see a town but apparently only 7 people live there; the five family members and the two dead people at the start.Speaking of which, the son and daughter. Now, I was glad to find they were step-related after what I saw, but it was still creepy when they referred to each other as blood related, for example 'sis', it's just creepy!But you can't blame the actors, they did the best of their situation. With the exception of Valérie Valois since she appeared to lose it at the end. Seriously, there was one point where everyone else in the scene had an expression of, what's the word, worried anticipation, cut to Valois' blank expression, before thinking 'oh yeah, need emotion here'.So many bad things I want to talk about but thankfully the memory of the film is leaving my mind. Seriously people, unless every single other channel out there is just static, and only this was on, go read a book.And on a final note, this film tells us that the best place to blow up a dam with a rocket launcher (don't ask me where it came from, I blanked out), is at the bottom.
qdixon-649-71792
Story and writing was horrible...Where on earth do you have relationships as depicted in this story. The acting seemed delayed and unresponsive in many parts as if the actors lost touch with the storyline... I wish more writers and directors would use facts and consult experts. The main problem with movies like this is that money takes priority over quality...I don't blame the actors in this but they did what they could with a bad script.I guess that is what you get when you have a first time director and an executive producer who is also the writer.Words of advise to the public, don't waste your time with this film.To the actors - choose your scripts, directors and producers more carefully.
