My Review (No Links)
The acting is some of the worst I've ever seen, no chemistry even with the nuclear family at the center of the movie. I really tried to give this a chance, there are moments that are digestible... but even that is being generous... the actors try so hard, which is part of the reason they fail so miserably.
I did however like the scene about an hour in when they lose the train and are trekking through the snow and meet up with a Practical Guide, a Religious Devotee, and an opened minded person who is portrayed as a flaky, hippie idiot......
That falling down the pyramid scene was freaking hilariously insanely bad. Wtf was that?!
The actor who plays dad has no warmth with his own family.
The relationship developing throughout between the daughter and the native guide is disturbing at best.
The movie is all about faith and showing a commonality between us and these foreign people to us... but we choose different directions towards safety...
There was apparently no budget for effects, which isn't always bad, NOES's original film also had no budget, but they were really creative, and while these guys find creative ways to make it work... they're pretty bad ways.
Rappelling down the side of the mountain was ridiculous, because the mountain looked like a completely different place between vantage shots, there was no consistency of geography.
You've got the iced over mountain as seen from above, the snowy covered cliff from afar, and the no snow covered dirt creek when seen up close... that was so bad, like why even do that? Don't try to do it, if you can't do it well... just scrap that scene... the movie didn't need it. You already had a few scenes exactly like it already... remember the slide down the pyramid?
I did like the scene where the dad looks out at the world and then down at the snowglobe... that's a theme in my life, it's even in a song I wrote and released on my first album.
And the kid solves every problem.
The mother acted as if she had never gone beyond elementary school drama.
Wow, that waterslide scene is difficult to watch.
The biggest problem with the film is that the editing is so poor, and the actors fail; to stay or maintain character, so we see too much how every scene is made, and so the dialog and emotion fall absolutely nowhere... the acting of the dad is ham-fisted.
At the end I just went, wow... dumbfounded... in the end the movie isn't really about the disaster, this is why we never really find out what the hell happened and is yet to happen... all we know is the family is safe... the devotee and religious survived on faith, and all the hippies died... this movie really is crap.
I was hoping it would be "so bad it's good", but it's really just bad... the actors weren't great but they weren't even as bad as the story of this film.
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