Post Impact

Post Impact

I can't believe it wasn't nominated in the category of best film 2004...Or maybe not....This movie is so bad, that I'm embarrassed on behalf of the crew and the actors...if you can call them that...because, to be frank, they suck...proceeding to the plot...to be honest, there is no plot in this movie...the movie is explained so poorly, that I simply didn't understand what the hell the interesting thing about this movie was...and it's very simple to answer that question...the movie is not interesting, it is not well produced in any way... I gave it one star, because it is not possible to give zero stars...and yet, If you want to have a cheap laugh, I can almost recommend this movie...NOT because of its qualities, but because of the opposite...This is an example to all the up-coming movie-makers how NOT to make a movie...and just one word for the special effects guys on this movie....quit right now, find something else to do, because my Commodore 64 could do a better job making special effects than you can....

Of all the movies that I have seen about the earth being struck by a comet/meteor this is by far the worse. It is even worse then "Meteor", a movie made a number of years ago and starring Sean Connery. By the time I was 30 minutes into the film I realized that it was loosely following a format similar to another SciFi channel movie, "Ice". Both movies had people trying to survive in blizzard like conditions with similar character types. At the 1 hour point I turned it off and watched Gilligan's Island reruns. I really don't care how the movie turned out. One big problem with this movie, besides the lousy script, is that they don't get the science right. In this movie it wasn't until the comet became plainly visible in the night sky that someone "figured out" that it was going to hit the earth in a few hours. As an amateur astronomer I can guarantee you that long, long before this comet would become this visible in the sky it's orbit would have been calculated. Also, if it was close enough to collide with the earth our planet would be very close, if not within the coma, and no stars would be visible at all.

Did you ever read "Time of the Great Freeze" by Robert Silverberg or go see "Damnation Alley?" If so, then you've seen this film before--only this time, it's a post Tunguska-like comet impact instead of World War III and no giant cockroaches this time. Dean Cain and a husky named "Sasquatch" lead a team through Ice Age Europe to rescue lost scientists trapped in Berlin in Landmaster-like vehicles. A B-movie science fiction film with all of the associated trappings. Not too bad digital special effects. Turn off your brain and enjoy, then go get "Damnation Alley" for a (slightly) better performance.

Let me start by saying this is my first post on the site, and I was actually moved to write this by PI: Post Impact. The plot comes down to this: After earth is hit by a meteor we fall into a new ice age. The new government of the Northern States sends a mission to Berlin, to try to get control of a weapon which might be able to defrost earth. My wife rented the movie thinking it might be a bit of harmless fun- I found myself laughing hysterically even though there's no comedic moments to speak of. The plot is thin, it contains probably the most unnecessary sex scene I have EVER seen in a movie (counting late night adult dramas), the main character is one of the most shallow people I have seen in a movie (even though he is on a mission to find his wife and daughter, he falls for just about every girl that looks at him), the acting is, well, not great, and the best part: The awesomely bad CGI effects that wouldn't find a place in a computer game. There was just no way this was believable, even my four year old daughter spotted it. I would not recommend this movie to ANYONE, not even really die hard Dean Cain fans.

This movie really doesn't deserve the bashing it's received. Granted, it's a TV movie. Talent and production value are correspondingly lower than a better-funded Hollywood project, but they did very well with what was available. Dean Cain plays his usual character; slightly bland, but generally likable. Bettina Zimmermann and Joanna Taylor are both very hot, and turn in decent performances, to boot. Special effects are nothing special, but better than most TV movies and some Hollywood films. I thought the premise was interesting, too, although they didn't have time to explore it the way a mini-series might have. Still, I think they did a fine job of addressing the major points. There was an acceptable level of action. It could have been better, but then again that is usually the case. The pacing was actually excellent on this, never bogging down. It takes enough time to do the scene, but doesn't linger (except for a brief 'villain's exposition' scene that seems overdone, mainly because he's rambling pointlessly. I could have done without that.) All in all, a solid film.

Just got done watching this dreadfully awful movie. Dear God, why did they bother? Thankfully, I rented it and it was free. I work at a major video store and this title will not be recommended..at all...not a chance....don't waste your money, your time or your life by watching this utter piece of garbage. An all time low for the Sci-Fi Channel. Ooops, maybe I should have said the B-Movie Channel. Besides the terrible plot holes, the bad acting, the sorriest special effects I've seen in a while, I thought it was comical that it was a movie about the Earth being froze over ...and not once did I ever see anyone's breath...and the "ice" around everywhere just screamed Styrofoam. Pathetic, bad, terrible...etc.

... and I din't know what really does! I wasted a cheap blank DVD recording this movie from the Sci-Fi channel. I was unsure just how dire this film was until I saw the action (bad adjective) scenes where there were shoot-outs between the characters. The budget on this movie was obviously so low that it allowed only one shoot of each scene, and it was in the can, regardless of how good or bad it was. The acting was of the poorest quality, including Dean Caine, who I know can do much better. Mustn't forget the dog though... he was pretty much on queue in the attack sequences, and lived through the movie. I was fully expecting the old 'dog saves master and is killed doing so' cliché, as that is where the whole movie headed. If you are thinking about watching this move, please save yourself the time and do something more enjoyable like pulling out your fingernails!

the plot starts out simple, big meteor goes bang = nuclear winter, 3 years P.I (post impact) someone uses a microwave beam to destroy a plane. a team of military types head for Berlin, where the control point for the satellite is - lead by their colonel, with 2 civilians, our hero, who used to work for the colonel and wants to go to Berlin to find his wife and daughter (who he finds at the end,dead) and the daughter of the lead scientist who was in charge of the satellite. One 'truck'was destroyed by ice, the other was blown up by a few evil guys shooting at our guys, so they headed inside where they found 250 survivors. they were getting all their food supplied from the doctor (who was the lead scientist) and his distributors. they go to see him to find out about the satellite, turns out his distributors have betrayed him and the doctors assistant is crazy, sitting in the control room. well they kill the doctor and the military types enlist the help of the survivors to provide a distraction while they storm the control block. only the colonel, the daughter, the second in command, and our hero. our hero leaves to go check on his dog, while the second in command decides she is going to shoot her boss (she does), then she holds a gun to the head of the daughter, telling her to aim the beam at the Arabic states, to make then put down the price of oil, our hero returns to save the day, kill the evil second in command and with the help of the daughter, uses the beam to kick stars the worlds climate. resulting in the sun rising. the effects are not blockbuster material, but its not a blockbuster type film, the acting could be better and some things don't make sense, such as its -57degrees outside, but you cant see any breath and they don't freeze to death, (which while its a good thing, it's not very realistic,) i recommend the film - just don't look for errors enjoy the film, really get into it and the 'wooden-ness' wont effect you. its like a 'day after tomorrow' film, only not as dramatic or blockbuster-ish

(as they were known before their spell checker stopped working). Don't understand the venom here. The movie isn't great, but it isn't terrible either; don't know the preferences of the other reviewers but I would watch movies like this before crap like Hostel or another remake of a 70s movie that wasn't that good the first time. Post-Impact is a mid-Europe production crew making a movie with an interesting premise; a comet strike renders northern Europe uninhabitable. After a rescue mission is destroyed by a microwave satellite controlled from the impact zone, a team moves in to discover the truth. The source is found, and it turns out not everyone on the team is working with the same agenda. Yes, there are Euro-accents all over the place, the equipment is wrong, wrong, wrong (the .22 inserts on the M16s, and, well, pretty much everything about the military and government aspects). Sometimes it sounds like Hanz und Franz from SNL wrote and directed an action movie. But it's a interesting premise, Dean Cain hits the marks and says the lines and it brings an interesting setting into your living room. Some characters have good turns. No, it's not great. Nevertheless, I find SciFi (no, I'm not going to write Syfy, because I am not Hooked on Phonics) movies more interesting than 99% of the crap and recycled garbage that comes out of the big entertainment houses these days. No, really. No matter how bad the acting, how laughable the special effects, SciFi movies nearly always have a gem (sometimes a very tiny gem) in there, a premise or a characters or a setting which transcends the Robert McKee/focus-group fueled McMovies. Yes, you have to reach pretty deep into some of those things to pull out the diamond but it's nearly always there, and it's there in Post-Impact. Look for it.