Ice - Der Tag, an dem die Welt erfriert

I love disaster movies, and weather catastrophe disaster movies :) This one is just fine. It's intelligent, well-enough paced, good special effects, and enough drama and excitement to keep it moving along. I think maybe people who were expecting something fast-paced with thrills and spills and all that jazz were probably disappointed. In fact, it's a fairly intelligent tv drama. There are kids in it, but they aren't at all annoying, the way most kids in disaster movies seem to be. There's a grandpa, and Ben Cross brings a likeable real-life-person quality to him, rather than being the folksy, taking it on the chin for the women-folk kinda thing. The Brits are good at this kind of movie, and they do it again here. I like the combined UK-NZ collaboration. There are a lot of NZ actors that we don't see enough of (I first saw Taika Waititi on Brokenwood Mysteries, for example!). I liked it. As opposed to other weather disaster movies, this one seems fairly realistic, and I didn't for one moment feel that this was something I could survive. Good enough for that reason alone ;>

I really wish I could give this more stars. It does start well but totally loses its way in unrealistic events and actions. Sam Neill is not convincing in this role, he simply grins, smirks and tries to look dastardly but it's classic cardboard cut-out stuff. Stephen Moyer is more convincing.

I'm doubly disappointed because I was an extra in this movie shot in NZ. I wanted it to succeed. For your information this was shot as a movie, but clearly the studio thought it was so bad it could only be released as a TV mini-series in the US and then straight to DVD. Extremely limited release as it doesn't work as a film.

Report for the director: needs to do a lot better and I agree with the previous reviews.

This is some of the worst writing and directing I've ever seen.

If you've seen the Day After Tomorrow then you've seen some of this. Much of this has echoes of that film but its a cheap imitation.

It's not awful but it's not great either.

I've watched a lot worse and it is entertaining.

For a start it's way too long. Couple this with some ham acting and a dodgy plot and it's easy to start to lose focus and let your mind wander. That said the production isn't bad, some of the SFX are a iffy but for a TV movie they've not done a half bad job to be fair. Overall though it's all very implausible so that causes it to lose credibility. It's a poor mans 2012 I guess.

If you're at a loose end for 3+ hours, knock yourself out. If you like dodgy tv moves, knock yourself out. If you have the attention span on a goldfish or detest cliches and cliched storylines then you're gonna struggle.