"Nature unleashed"
I have no idea if this tagline is official, but it's bad enough to be.
The movie takes place in Alaska, where a bunch of geologists discover unusal tremors in the ground. Tremors caused by liquid methane trying to escape and kill everyone.
I actually had to do some research here to figure out how plausible this is. Why methane?
Apparently methane is pretty damn common in the earth (according to Wikipeda, "It is the major component of natural gas, about 87% by volume"), so I guess that's actually pretty plausable. If gases ever set out to kill people, methane would probably be the first one out to get you.
Since liquid methane is pretty damn cold when frozen (somewhere between -182 and -164 real degrees), everything that gets touched by the gas liquid gas is instantly frozen.
Yeah, that doesn't really make sense, but who am I to judge. Sure, I probably did more research to write this review than the whole crew did to make the movie, but whatever.
If the gas would escape, which it for some reason doesn't do through all the cracks it's already caused, everything would apparently die. The whole earth would just freeze in an instant. People, you'd better be fucking afraid of methane!
To remedy the situation, a family that happens to be in the area sets out to fight the methane, because that's just how you fix situations where all life on earth is threatened. The husband in the family is a geologist, so I guess that makes sense. Also, there's a dog.
The solution is so obvious that I'm almost embarrased to write it down: they have to blow up the gas.
And make sure the dog survives.
The effects aren't really that terrible, and to be honest, neither is the acting. It's no What's Eating Gilbert Grape (true story: I just now found out that movie isn't just called "Gilbert Grape"), but it's a far cry from the likes of Alien Origin. SyFy sort of managed to save face on this one.
Don't get me wrong, it's a horrible movie, but it's not that bad. With a few friends, a bag of chips and a bottle of coke (or beer or whatever you normal people drink) it's pretty enjoyable.
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I have no idea if this tagline is official, but it's bad enough to be.The movie takes place in Alaska, where a bunch of geologists discover unusal tremors in the ground. Tremors caused by liquid methane trying to escape and kill everyone.
I actually had to do some research here to figure out how plausible this is. Why methane?
Apparently methane is pretty damn common in the earth (according to Wikipeda, "It is the major component of natural gas, about 87% by volume"), so I guess that's actually pretty plausable. If gases ever set out to kill people, methane would probably be the first one out to get you.
Since liquid methane is pretty damn cold when frozen (somewhere between -182 and -164 real degrees), everything that gets touched by the gas liquid gas is instantly frozen.
Yeah, that doesn't really make sense, but who am I to judge. Sure, I probably did more research to write this review than the whole crew did to make the movie, but whatever.
If the gas would escape, which it for some reason doesn't do through all the cracks it's already caused, everything would apparently die. The whole earth would just freeze in an instant. People, you'd better be fucking afraid of methane!
To remedy the situation, a family that happens to be in the area sets out to fight the methane, because that's just how you fix situations where all life on earth is threatened. The husband in the family is a geologist, so I guess that makes sense. Also, there's a dog.
The solution is so obvious that I'm almost embarrased to write it down: they have to blow up the gas.
And make sure the dog survives.
The effects aren't really that terrible, and to be honest, neither is the acting. It's no What's Eating Gilbert Grape (true story: I just now found out that movie isn't just called "Gilbert Grape"), but it's a far cry from the likes of Alien Origin. SyFy sort of managed to save face on this one.
Don't get me wrong, it's a horrible movie, but it's not that bad. With a few friends, a bag of chips and a bottle of coke (or beer or whatever you normal people drink) it's pretty enjoyable.
IMDb
Trailer
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