Deadly Voltage

My wife loves to watch disaster movies, and has no qualms about watching bad ones. As such, this movie qualifies.

The rationale for the events in this movie is entirely incomprehensible. There are two scientists (a woman and her boss) that discuss what could amount to an Extinction Level Event with less concern than you might while pondering where you should go for lunch.

The main character, his family, and another family drawn into this drama make nonsensical decisions one after another. It's definitely not "exciting", but you'll watch with wonder as they do it. The teenage daughter is one of the worst humans depicted on screen.

The effects and props are some of the cheapest I have seen.

I have just turned this movie off with five minutes still to go, because I really had had more than enough!

Truly this movie is awful and as the tension is supposed to rise, the glazed boredom just gets more pronounced. I was astonished to find it was made in 2016, the special effects (so few as there were) were awful. There wasn't a single heart-stopping moment and the endless driving around in various cars on completely empty roads was pathetic!

Maybe I should have looked at IMDb before I watched it, I mean it was being shown this morning on Freeview television in England so that gives you some idea of how awful it is. The script is so mind- bogglingly bad, I almost felt sorry for the actors having to speak it - but the actors themselves were generally so dull and disinterested that you felt they knew what a clanger the finished article was going to be.

And I thought film making had improved over the years - not if this is anything to go by!

How ANYONE rated this movie more than 3 stars is ridiculous! Worst acting. A bunch of staring at the sky, sulking, worried looks, ENDLESS driving around in a town as bout as big as a postage stamp, and extremely wooden performances. I was HOPING the cast would get killed! It's that bad!

Lame story, lame relationships, JUST LAME!

Avoid it 😳

I had no idea that DEADLY VOLTAGE was a brand new movie when I watched it on TV yesterday. You don't expect to see a film showing on TV in January in the year of its release, but maybe that gives you some idea of just how poor this one is. I fully expected it to have been released around 2002 or 2003, given how tired, dated, and cheap-looking it all is.

Basically, the plot is about a typical family who go on a hiking expedition to do some bonding. You know the types: the females are always fighting and bitchy, the husband is a bore, the kids are irritating. They get caught up in a lightning storm, and that's all that happens. The special effects scenes are few and far between, and very poorly done. There's barely any action or incident, just dull emoting by the characters, and overall the whole thing of a mess. I don't mind disaster movies being cheesy a la The Asylum's output, but I can never forgive them for being dull.

Well I watched it - I fell asleep. Not much of a plot, irritating teens, lacklustre characters with no depth. If you are having trouble sleeping put this on and you will drift off into slumberland pronto.