1/2 Double Feature Katastrophenfilme mit Justus_

Wenn Scorcher eins hat, dann wahrscheinlich die verwirrendste Story, die ich seit Langem gesehen hab.

Also irgendwer kam auf die Idee, unterirdische Atomtest durchzuführen, wodurch sich die Plattentektonik verändert und Vulkanausbrüche sowie Erdbeben hervorgehoben werden. Viel schlimmer ist aber, dass die Erde sich jetzt auf Kollisionskurs mit der Sonne befindet. Helfen kann da nur noch eine Spezialeinheit, angeführt von Mark Dacascos die in Los Angeles eine weitere Atombombe zünden sollen um alles wieder ins Lot zu bringen.

Ist also vollkommener Käse wirklich von Anfang bis Ende. Vorteil ist aber das wirklich alles verdammt unterhaltsam ist egal ob Dialoge, die völliger Schwachsinn sind oder ranzige Effekte.

Dacascos lässt den Film dafür nicht hängen, sondern ist…

The World is Ending... Let's Help It!

There is much to dislike in this movie, but one thing that I actually found disturbingly interesting. Scorcher is a crazy disaster movie with a wild plot in which the world ends in three days… or something. Fear not, we can save the planet by setting off a series of nuclear bombs in Los Angeles.

Sounds like a great comedy, but these guys mean business, trust me - they are deadly serious. Now, the interesting part comes as the world is ending and the creeps crawl out from the shadows to dominate the world. Our hero’s daughter is taken by a serial killer who slowly tortures her mentally.

The overall daughter side plot…

The Armageddon that dropped out of school to open up its own food truck in rural Iowa.

This movie literally starts with making several jokes about a bunch of Asians dying during a volcanic eruption – and the audience is supposed to like the hero for not only making the jokes, but for punching out an empathetic woman, who wants to save them.

This is not a good movie. At all.
The exposition dialogue is out of this world and the acting is both stiff and alien. It is so full of clichés that the film is more foreseeable than the coming financial crisis.
It is also one of those movies where, apparently, the world’s leading scientist is a 29-year-old…

A disaster movie as if created by a stencil. You get the same plot as you got used to in all the past years and the only thing that changes is the form of disaster threatening earth. Volcano? No. Ice? No. Meteorites? No. Tectonic plates? Tectonic plates it is! Given the cast of this movie I was expecting a bit more, especially with John Rhys-Davies being in it (and not to forget Rutger Hauer - it feels like ages ago since I last saw him in a movie) and the actors are trying hard to present the script in an acceptable way. Unfortunately the writing is so generic, that Scorcher ends up as just a below average movie in the…