Initially I was intrigued by the movie's cover, and I had never actually heard about the movie prior to sitting down and watching it. I started the movie, and those two dreaded words popped up on the screen; The Asylum. Great, another attempt at a natural disaster from The Asylum, enough said actually.
The storyline in "America Is Sinking" is pretty generic, even for a natural disaster movie from The Asylum. Writers Jeremiah Crothers and Steve Doucette apparently opted to play it insanely safe and bet on every trope seen in previous natural disaster movies. And that ultimately made this movie bland, predictable and sort of forgettable. I can't claim that I was particularly entertained throughout the course of the 83 minutes that the movie ran for. The storyline was predictable and every bit as unrealistic as you would assume. And you know the outcome of the movie from the very beginning, yeah it was that kind of movie.
The cast ensemble in the movie was actually fair. I was only familiar with Michael Paré, Paul Logan and Lindsey Marie Wilson. I wonder if actors Michael Paré and Paul Logan are enslaved to The Asylum, as they tend to pop up in almost everything that The Asylum spews out.
The special effects in the movie were as you would expect from a natural disaster movie churned out by The Asylum. Questionable and dubious special effects. I especially loved how the helicopter changed colors in between scenes, when you see it on the roof it is green, but as the scene shifts and the helicopter it is in the air, it suddenly became a desert camouflaged color. And the scene in the beginning of the movie where the actor and actress were in front of a blue screen, and it was supposed to be filmed in the arctic; it just looked abysmal.
Of course the movie's cover far outshined the actual contents of the movie. But then again, that is usually the case with these natural disaster movies.
My rating of director Mario N. Bonassin's 2023 movie "America Is Sinking" lands on a generous two out of ten stars.
