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Very little to do with global warming, more of a psychological film


This film was more about what would happen to 6 people locked in a steam room. The film seems to be incorrectly billed as some kind of global warming wake up call. It really has no global warming message whatsoever.

I didn't really get the ending though, was the story made up or did it already happen? I'm guessing it was pure fantasy since some of the cast were his doctors in the mental ward.

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Yes, if you seek the review from this movie online, everyone trashes it before having seen it...but only because the trailer plot gives away another kind of movie...I keep seeing they trash Val Kilmer, but is it only me? I've seen good films from the man in the last few years, not popcorn movies, but movies with heart, you could say...I always mention Spartan, a masterpiece, and I've seen not so long ago Felon, another good movie.


You could say it was pure fantasy, but then why does the blonde woman says to the doctor at the end, "..you'll have to kill him..." (because Kilmer is controlling the doctor and not the other way around, something like that)...Why is that?

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Are you kidding me? The "global warming"-thing is a TOTAL RUSE! This was just a group of psychopaths looking for some thrill.

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it was all in his head, none of it really happened



When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...

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Xcalate, that's what I thought also...

But then how do you explain the conversation between the doctor & his wife at the end?

-From the desk of Ms Slim

"I make him an offer he no refuse"

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?? Why do you people think it didn't happened. The ending was very clear. Obviously it did happen, the doctor and his wife also had similar beliefs as Val Kilmer's character as far as global warming and people reactions to this type of thing and thus they decided to take part in the experiment to see for themselves. They survived and obviously Kilmer let them out once they learned that his thoughts were true. All this is evident when Kilmer gets back to the hopsital and talks with his doctor(the surviving man in trap) who tells him it was exhilirating and just as he had predicted. Then the doctor and his wife are talking and are noticebly still wired up from being apart of it showing that it had happened very recently, and she says that he needs to be killed, showing that since he knows that they were apart of the experiment, she does not trust him with the information and thinks its safest to simply kill him.

?? Seemed a very easy ending to comprehend..

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This film is a psychological experiment in finding out how much of it you'll put up with before hitting the 'off' button....zzzzz

"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul" - C.G.Jung

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