Extremely stiff, predictable and cheesy dialogues. Movie is set in a natural disaster/beginning of a new ice age scenario, but hey, lipstick and makeup are perfect until the end. Awful cinematic effects of the cold blast, and the wind sounds like an angry bear. The center of the icy downdraft is repeatedly shown from space as the eye of a huge cyclone, but apparently no weather agency in the whole damn world sees it - according to the citizens there is no storm forecast. And how about a large scale weather phenomenon that is predictable down to the second? Fast forward: Almost everyone insta-freezes, even indoors, but not Jordan and Claire in the badly insulated "B&B" nor dad in his DIY igloo. Their glorious idea to get to safety: Make a run for the heliport, although none of them is a pilot ("We'll figure it out"). On the way to the heliport the last 5 survivors come across an accident scene with several cars blocking the road. Instead of trying to put those cars in neutral and push them off the street, maybe even use the truck as a ram, the group decides to take a detour. Need more drama? Well, the airport is now about 40 minutes away, and the next freeze blast will last about 30 minutes, so they need about 70 minutes of fuel. And here comes the low fuel light... definitely not enough fuel to sit out the storm AND drive to the heliport. The solution? Someone has to drive through the blast. Fiona sacrifices herself and keeps on trucking while everyone else is safe in the back of the truck. She - predictably - dies while driving. Mysteriously, the truck ends up at the airport, not in a ditch. My fairly efficient car wouldn't make it 40 minutes on low fuel, but this gas slurping ancient truck did. Where can I get one? Lastly, ANY helicopter pilot will cringe watching this. Hero dad does not have a pilot certificate, supposedly not even experience in any aircraft - but he manages to start the helicopter, get it off the ground (something literally NOBODY but Chuck Norris would be able to pull off), and then flies across the whole North American continent?! He encounters IFR (no visibility) conditions, a situation practically only experienced and specifically trained helicopter pilots will manage to survive. None of them knows anything about flying, yet they cross the whole continent in a helicopter that needs fuel every 2.5-3 hours. How do they know where to get fuel? How do they even get fuel when the whole Northern hemisphere is frozen stiff? Nobody alive, no power, no fuel pump... Not even going to ask how dad lands the helicopter without crashing it...
It could have been an interesting movie - had someone done a reality check.
Review of Cold Zone
