One star*
I didn’t know if I could be bothered to post a review of this movie. I went to see it with high expectations. The premise and the trailer looked good. I didn’t realize that other reviewers had said it was such a poor movie and even if I had read some reviews first, I often ignore them to make up my own mind.
It wasn’t that the screenplay was poor. On paper it probably left the writer looking quite good and was probably the reason the movie raised the funds to make it; that and having Kate Beckinsale attached as the lead actor.
The problems arrived at the shooting stage. It never made you worried for the cast who were placed in precarious positions. You never anxious about the atrocious weather that we’re told would kill most people in minutes. In fact we were never taken to a level of heightened interest.
When the action took place, most of it was hidden by the weather conditions. Okay we know about the terrible weather they get down at the south pole, but we couldn’t see who was fighting who and we lost interest rapidly. The sooner the movie ended, the better. I was past caring who made it to the end after about half way through the movie; couldn’t care who the bad guys were and of course knew the leading lady would make it to the end because they don’t pay that much money to a star for her to drop out early on, usually. That’s not really a spoiler alert.
Ticket sales have only reached a third of its budget so they’re relying heavily on DVD rental and sales. They’ll need lots of people taken by the DVD cover to shift it across the counter.
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