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Without one thing, this would get 7/10.... Instead it gets 6/10

posted 12 years ago by mrbwiz422
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The teenage son in this is a horrible wooden actor, and brought down the majority of scenes that he was in.. Which is roughly half the movie.

A few things didn't make sense...
Such a the heroes' SUV overheating, and the bad guys' SUV being fine
The only danger of being outside was those convenient "flares" that killed more bad guys than anyone else by far, at the perfect times.
The son being a master hacker, and everyone knowing how to work the satellite computers somehow.
The bad guys seemed extremely stupid, their whole plan was just dumb especially since I don't think they were in the "Green Zone".
Then one of the main bad guys decided to try to destroy a rather large piece of electronics by hitting it with a pipe and kicking it. Needless to say, there were many more smarter ways he could have handled that one.

Otherwise, not horrible.
But probably not worth your time to be honest.

[–] Xcalat3 12 years ago

Yeah that kid was awful and his character ridiculously annoying.

but all in all the movie is not as bad as I expected.

5/10

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

[–] Thrill_KillZ 12 years ago

To mrbwiz:
That kid needed a slap to knock that stupid look off his face,jeez

I agree with the SUV It's like a $40g 2011 GMC, even worse he said it was overheating and when he looked down the oil light was on? That has 0 to do with coolant & overheating

Yea, didn't the green zone seem to be the equator, which the US is NOT on,not even close!

And those damn solar heat laser whatever's, they seemed to show up on cue perfectly placed. If they were that superhot they would have cut the people in half & we would have had some good gore scenes, but no they just evaporated everyone it hit!

I watched it last night at like 2am and it was alright, I throw on all the weird s h i t when it gets late... I gave it a 5

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[–] wildfire160 12 years ago

I agree with everything you say ...the kid was as dense as an old oak tree..

one thing though ,theres no way the green zone would be at the equator if the earth were to stop rotating any "green zone" would be roughly along a line of longitude(north/south) not latitude(east/west) ...

[–] arthurblock 12 years ago

To be precise, the "green zone" should be centered on the terminator. This would line up pretty much exactly with a meridian if it happened on the first day or spring or autumn, but would be offset by 23.5 degrees on a solstice, otherwise somewhere in between. Of course, what territory would be in the zone depends critically on exactly when the earth stops rotating.

The bad guys seem to be working to a plan that involves having already prepared facilities in the zone for the politically well-connected (and themselves). So I guess they somehow knew in advance what time it would be when some random astronomical event stopped Earth's rotation. Actually, I think it would be impossible to construct anything capable of surviving the unimaginable storms caused by the Earth suddenly going to a one-side-hot/one-side-cold configuration, the tectonic implications of the deceleration, etc.

I wanted Earth's Final Hours to live up to its name. After the "Yay, we did it!" moment, they should look up to see that another, much larger, white-hole chunk is destroying the sun - or something like that.

The only thing I really liked about this movie was Julia Benson, playing an expert on super-massive objects.

[–] CoreJetsam 12 years ago

Inferring from their description of the consequence, the Earth has not stopped rotating, rather it has undergone "tidal locking". The Earth is rotating at the rate of one revolution per year (compared with some distant star, arbitrarily taken as a "fixed" point in the celestial sphere, although it will be tumbling through space like everything else), so that the same face is always facing the sun. This is similar to the situation with the Moon and the Earth. Mercury is nearly, but not quite, tidally locked.

[Irony]Apart from that, all of the science is spot on, including the bit about white holes. [/irony]

[–] clacton0 12 years ago

Just seen the film and I gave it a 4 out of 10.
There is another film like this called Polar Storm 2009 which I liked a bit more.

www.youtube.com/eastangliauk

[–] kodax2 12 years ago

I think its a stretch to call the kid a master hacker. He got caught within 10 minutes every time he tried to hack something. It was actually pretty funny "I am sitting here at the relay...they will never catch me here...never mind".

[–] ihatetakenIDs 12 years ago

Just started, and already lost interest... I mean, the guy is hit with a piece of crap, falling from the sky, and it went straight through his chest, in so much that you can see his chest cavity, thus there would be no lungs left, and then somehow he masters to whisper something?!?!! Really!