Firequake

Poor acting, plot holes like Swiss cheese. The most amazing thing I found is that everyone, from cops to locals, speak perfect English with nary an accent to be heard. This story takes place just outside Progue, which I am quite sure does not have American English as it's primary language. Bitchy teen aged daughter that looks like she's in her 20s, one crazy guy trying to cover up his catastrophic mistakes by killing everyone that knows she's innocent despite his claims, main character with the emotions of pudding. What happened to all the great B movies of yore? Special effects won't save bad acting and scripts.

Ha ha, turned on the tv, heard three seconds of dialog and exactly what the cheesy but amusing screen work would be, bad movie. been many of them in the ten years. Sharknadoes included. Some peoples expectations were clearly out of line.

Let's face it, there may be an infinite number of ways to tell the same story and we seem to get that in sci/fi and disaster land. So Firequake has the corporate villain who pushes ahead despite problems and then faces consequences that he tries to avoid or pin on others. Then we have the obnoxious teenager who eventually comes around to love the person she starts out hating. But Firequake does have a different element that I felt made this movie a little different. Without giving away too much, the main character takes on what would be considered uncharacteristic actions out of desperation and you have to give the creators of this movie credit for giving a little twist in an otherwise ordinary story.

I am amazed at the audacity of the 12 producers (including two John Capillas) who invested their money into this trash !

It is truly awful ... in EVERY department . The Opel cars with Bulgarian registrations , power and internet (not to mention cell phones) working perfectly even during the explosions and eruptions which says a lot about East European system integrity , the empty countryside that looks like a part of Kansas ... the list is endless !

The film lacked one factor, however .. no usual British "bad guy" for a change !!

Please avoid this disaster even on a rainy day ... watch anything - even AEW wrestling - but not this travesty !

Such a shame that a decent, if far-fetched, idea was wasted by truly dreadful execution. SyFy have made some tolerable movies, a lot of bad ones and an even larger amount of trash. Firequake is in the trash category and one of their worst in a long time.

Firequake is a very cheap-looking movie, everything looks very drab and the camera work and editing looks as if composed in a hurry. The special effects fare even worse, yes it is low budget but is that a good enough excuse for a lack of effort and the effects looking so fake and like they belong somewhere else? Not to me. The music is incredibly generic and sometimes like a monotonous drone, nothing interesting or memorable here.

Even by SyFy standards, the script is very stilted and cliché-ridden, with forced attempts at humour, lots of gibberish passing for sci-fi and logic, plodding and often irrelevant exposition and painfully ham-fisted melodrama. The story is dull and manages to be both ridiculous and over-serious. The idea is decent but it all feels half-baked and without any tension or sense. The characters are cardboard and even more clichéd than the writing, some managing to be annoying(especially the main teenage character), while the direction is flat and the acting is a mess of overwrought and completely disengaged.

Overall, had potential but a disaster all round. 1/10 Bethany Cox