STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 26th
Official Synopsis:
INTER SCI climatologist David Koch (Jeff Fahey) has evidence that a shift in the Earth's polarity triggered the last Ice Age…in a single day. Now, it's happening again, and there's no time to escape. As the temperature plummets, Miami is blasted with snow and ice. Evacuation routes are jammed. The only chance David, his old flame Bryn (Erika Eleniak), and a few other hopeful survivors have is to hole themselves up in a special chamber at INTER SCI. A desperate race for survival is ignited as nature's fury rages and the temperature plunges toward -459.67° F…ABSOLUTE ZERO!
Our Take:
I'm an absolute sucker for disaster films, so I could have easily enjoyed Absolute Zero if it wasn't for one thing: Jeff Fahey. Man, that guy is terrible. And in a movie that takes something like 25 minutes before Erika Eleniak comes on screen, that's a lot of Fahey to take in. Honestly, his presence takes away from the film.
Not that Absolute Zero is anything more than a typical TV-movie that you could find playing on the Sci-Fi Channel on any given weekend, but those flicks have their own special place in the entertainment world, and they can be fun at times. But Fahey's so-deadpan-it's-monotone performance is so mind-numbingly depressing, it saps the fun out of what should be a good B movie. It makes it more of a B-minus movie.
The Absolute Zero DVD comes sans extra features of any kind, so this one is recommended only for suckers like me who just have to get their weekly dose of disaster flick.
Overall Picture:
Movie: C-
DVD: C
- Mike Spring
Editor
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