Well, at least this 2020 movie's cover looked good.
I opted to sit down to watch the 2020 movie "Apocalypse of Ice" without having ever heard about it. But I have to admit that I liked the movie's cover, and I do enjoy catastrophe movies.
Now, the problem with the catastrophe movie genre is that the majority of the movies that make up the bulk here are essentially laughable movie with atrocious special effects. But on the odd chance that "Apocalypse of Ice" would be a great movie, of course I sat down to watch it.
Then the name The Asylum popped up on the screen, and every bit of chance of this being a great movie sort of dwindled like darkness at the crack of dawn. Yet, I continued to watch the movie, and actually watched it to the very end.
A movie like "Apocalypse of Ice" is pretty straight forward. You know what you get with this kind of movie, and director Maximilian Elfeldt delivered exactly what you would expect, despite the fact that writer Ryan Ebert gave the director very little to work with.
Disaster and catastrophe movies needs proper special effects and CGI to make it convincing and believable. Unfortunately that was something that "Apocalypse of Ice" didn't have, and the movie was just a lukewarm - pardon the pun - addition to the genre.
Visually then the effects in "Apocalypse of Ice" were passable, for sure, but it was hardly grand special effects that will knock you over or impress you by any means.
The storyline is simplistic, and like many other catastrophe movies there were just so many things happening that made little sense or would be insanely implausible to happen. But of course, for a movie meant for entertainment purposes, everything goes. And needless to say that "Apocalypse of Ice" was insanely predictable.
The acting in the movie was actually adequate enough, especially when taking into consideration the severe limitations imposed upon the actors and actresses by having a less than passable script and storyline. The only familiar face on the cast list for me was Tom Sizemore, and he is not really top notch in my book.
I must admit that I was impressed with the fact that the weather could flash freeze entire metropolis cities in an instant, yet the main characters in the movie would strut about wearing garments not even suitable for even the mildest of winter weather.
If you enjoy catastrophe movies you might want to do yourself a favor and skip on "Apocalypse of Ice", because it was actually a rather laughable movie and a lousy attempt of a catastrophe movie.
While I managed to endure the entire movie to the end, I can't really claim that I was particularly entertained. Actually, I bet all memories of the movie will have vanished from memory within a week. This is not a movie that warrants more than a single viewing - if you even manage that. My rating of the 2020 movie "Apocalypse of Ice" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.
I opted to sit down to watch the 2020 movie "Apocalypse of Ice" without having ever heard about it. But I have to admit that I liked the movie's cover, and I do enjoy catastrophe movies.
Now, the problem with the catastrophe movie genre is that the majority of the movies that make up the bulk here are essentially laughable movie with atrocious special effects. But on the odd chance that "Apocalypse of Ice" would be a great movie, of course I sat down to watch it.
Then the name The Asylum popped up on the screen, and every bit of chance of this being a great movie sort of dwindled like darkness at the crack of dawn. Yet, I continued to watch the movie, and actually watched it to the very end.
A movie like "Apocalypse of Ice" is pretty straight forward. You know what you get with this kind of movie, and director Maximilian Elfeldt delivered exactly what you would expect, despite the fact that writer Ryan Ebert gave the director very little to work with.
Disaster and catastrophe movies needs proper special effects and CGI to make it convincing and believable. Unfortunately that was something that "Apocalypse of Ice" didn't have, and the movie was just a lukewarm - pardon the pun - addition to the genre.
Visually then the effects in "Apocalypse of Ice" were passable, for sure, but it was hardly grand special effects that will knock you over or impress you by any means.
The storyline is simplistic, and like many other catastrophe movies there were just so many things happening that made little sense or would be insanely implausible to happen. But of course, for a movie meant for entertainment purposes, everything goes. And needless to say that "Apocalypse of Ice" was insanely predictable.
The acting in the movie was actually adequate enough, especially when taking into consideration the severe limitations imposed upon the actors and actresses by having a less than passable script and storyline. The only familiar face on the cast list for me was Tom Sizemore, and he is not really top notch in my book.
I must admit that I was impressed with the fact that the weather could flash freeze entire metropolis cities in an instant, yet the main characters in the movie would strut about wearing garments not even suitable for even the mildest of winter weather.
If you enjoy catastrophe movies you might want to do yourself a favor and skip on "Apocalypse of Ice", because it was actually a rather laughable movie and a lousy attempt of a catastrophe movie.
While I managed to endure the entire movie to the end, I can't really claim that I was particularly entertained. Actually, I bet all memories of the movie will have vanished from memory within a week. This is not a movie that warrants more than a single viewing - if you even manage that. My rating of the 2020 movie "Apocalypse of Ice" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.