100° Below Zero

100° Below Zero

100 Degrees Below Zero is yet another Asylum Studios film (more or less the New World Pictures of today, but not as radical). This is a studio that takes you to the movies for a blockbuster, remakes it, uses a fraction of the resources, and scatters it everywhere for the trash. 100 DEGREES BELOW ZERO does not correspond per se towards any `big’ movie. It’s not like PARANORMAL ENTITY, TRANSMORPHERS: FALL OF MAN or ATLANTIC RIM. It does however indulge in nostalgic references to recent disasters like 2012 and THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW.

The contempt of the audience served by Asylum movies is familiar to the most disturbing of psychologists, and so does 100 DEGREES BELOW ZERO. It is an illogical, absurdly written and constructed film. And then there are the esteemed veteran actors Jeff Fahey and John Rhys Davies. Where is their dignity?

That’s how they all begin, one of those disaster movies. Jeff Fahey is cast as Foster Steve. He enjoys a honeymoon helicopter ride with his wife Lacey over beautiful Iceland. All of a sudden a volcano effusion ‘cloud’ causes him to change routes to London. Apparently, some volcanoes have decided to start an eruption spree all across Europe. Plus there is heavy snow, sleet, rain, earthquakes, and sharp drops in temperatures. Not that it even matters as half the remaining cast loses their coats running around.

You guessed it, the volcano clouds are obstructing sunlight. This is the new ice age, and who knows how long this is going to continue? But this is not the kind of movie which tells you the story of the world as we know it, in the middle of apocalypse. It is a linear tale about a man and his family, a slightly twisted rendition about a father trying to save his face; it is about courage in the face of trouble.

And it’s also the tale of two little bastards who ought to be rescued. Fahey thus heads for Paris to try and assist them. In the interim, though, they’re going to have to put up with all kinds of trouble: earthquakes, big chunks of ice falling from the sky, thieves, stern and humorless soldiers. You can bet your bottom dollar that from the Marker itself they’re going to be screeching, groaning, grunting, running, and bumping in to each other and the ground for well a good part of the flick.

In the meantime, however, high-powered scientists and the like “address” the situations, and even say, “I would like it if you won’t know how cold it will be: the cold remains the true reality so well suited to it.”

Any criteria you look in order to evaluate a particular movie can it be its cinematography, acting, narrative, editing structure, screenplay, pacing, atmosphere, coherence, underlying messages, etc. etc., etc. is borderline impossible to defend when it comes to 100 DEGREES BELOW ZERO.

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