You should enjoy this movie if.....
Let's face it, people who enjoy disaster movies have a special gift for suspending all reality. If you are one of those people, you should enjoy this movie. If you understand the term "unobtainium" and are ok with a movie centered around that premise, then you should enjoy this movie. If you are a fan of "Firefly" then you should enjoy this movie (because it has Jewel Staite in it of course). If you can handle "better than tv" but worse than "in the theater" disaster movies, then you should enjoy this movie. If you love epic scale destruction (believable or not), then you should enjoy this movie. If you like to pick apart a movie that has attempted to tackle a huge topic (destruction of the earth) with moderate success on a small budget, then you should enjoy nitpicking this movie.
Tips for enjoying this movie:
1) Go into it with an open mind and no expectations
2) Suspend all reality and understand that it's ok that rebar can tell us our future...
Hokey fun - look out behind you
This is one of the most fun disaster "world is ending" movies. You may find yourself kibitzing and saying "stay in the car" but you will not be holding your nose and with those hallmark knockoff disaster movies.
General Slate (Alan Dale) knows something we do not. What we do know is the world is coming to an end and we suspect that Eric Fox (AJ Buckley) a modern-day Nostradamus has a manuscript that will help us survive; he sends for a publisher to come and get it. Mean time he also send for an archeologist. The invitees may find more than they planned on.
The picked just the right actors for the particular characters. And we get some great shots of British Columbia.
The big question is will the mission succeed or be foiled at the last minute?
Be sure to watch the DVD Extra "The Stories Are True"
Cliched but passable time-waster
Massive earthquakes are devastating the world, and volcanic eruptions, and there's only a guy from a publishing company and a college archaeology professor that can save it! The guy from the publishing company is sent to British Columbia to pick up a manuscript from a reclusive author/psychic, and the professor is lured there by him on other pretenses, but they both arrive at the same time, more or less, only to find the psychic deceased. Now they have only a strange rod and a few clues (some on video) as to what they are supposed to do. Of course, saving the world is not that easy when you're being pursued by laughably "sinister" government agents with perfect indestructible hairstyles and cleft chins...oh yeah, and driving Escalades. And now our hero and heroine are labeled as fugitives, by the government, because they have something that the government wants, not because they actually did anything wrong. (Did you know, by the way, that an Escalade can outrun an oncoming...
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