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Absolutely the worst movie.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

I watched this Canadian-made (BC) TV movie all the way through, just to see how bad it could get. I was not disappointed. This is the kind of movie that insults your intelligence, even if it is a work of fiction. This Canadian says that this is the kind of stuff that gives all Canadian movies a bad name. The "science" stuff was pure junk, with the final solution to preventing the end of the world coming from a 15-year old kid with a generator made of scotch tape and pop cans. The family problem sub-plot was totally superfluous, with his mother worrying about her lack of compassion etc, right at the time of crucial execution. We find out that the teenage whiz-kid is actually her sister's son, but we never find out, and no ever mentions his father. WE are left to assume that his adoptive father maybe is actually his real father, or not. Sorry, 2 out of ten, no more

I was a little put off right at the beginning when the movie jumps right into the story with not even a bit of introduction. That was followed by a story that was entirely unoriginal combined with the fact that to me at least it didn't seem to flow very well. The acting was at best OK; the performances from a little known cast a little too wooden in my opinion. The basic storyline - the earth being threatened by massive lightning storms that somehow threaten the start of a new ice age, with the climatologist Valery (Joana Pacula) being the only person who understands what's happening, but who can't convince anyone in authority of it - had some potential, but was burdened with the introduction of far too many "soap opera" elements. The most obvious of these was the entirely superfluous subplot, which was never well developed anyway, about the return of Valery's sister from prison. The science was also pretty weak. Everything seems to happen in a matter of a few hours, which seemed far too short a time to devise a solution for the storms and then to implement the solution, and then there was the reference to the last ice age having begun "about 2 million years ago." What? As far as I know the last ice age began about 100,000-120,000 years ago and lasted for about 100,000 years. Not a very good movie at all - but I have seen worse. 2/10

this movie is too melodramatic at times and gets bogged down in dialogue and subplots that don't really advance the story,in my opinion.the acting is not bad,especially from Noel Fisher who plays Jeremy Landis,the teenage son of the lead female character Dr.Valery Landis(Joanna Pacula)a weather specialist.there is at least 1 positive thing about the movie,and that is the scenes involving the lightning storms.the effects are fairly well done, int his regard.i certainly didn't hate this movie,but i do wish it had focused more on the storm aspect than the family issues.it kind of felt like 1 of those 'Lifetime' channel movies.if you don't mind that kind of movie,then you will probably like this 1.if not,you might want to avoid it.i'd have to say this movie is average,so 5/10 seems fair.

Decent flick. Special Effects were good at times, but sometimes the buildings being struck by lightning looked like my sons' models. Science part is horrible, but movies are for entertainment escape, not educational. Acting was alright, but I felt Nick Mancuso & Pacula could have made their characters better. Could have been better if Pacula's character was casted differently. I usually like her, but I felt she took away from the character. **SPOILER** With the world in peril, I found it strange if not hilarious that there was only one military personnel on the "task" force as well as very little government "thinkers" I guess they put all their budget into the special effects.