Ice Quake (2010)

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Ice Quake is another SyFy Channel film so as always keep expectations low.Two geologists (one dressed as Santa) investigate tremors on a mountain when a deep crack appears with some shimmering effects indicating some kind of gas escaping which freezes one of the geologist jumping over the crack. The mountain is releasing sub zero methane gas via earthquakes which causes avalanches placing nearby towns in danger.Brendan Fehr is up in the mountains with his family looking for Christmas trees but ends up battling for survival as ice geysers spew and quakes occur unleashing avalanches leading him to deal with various problems. Victor Garber lends respectability as the Colonel trying to locate Fehr.Its a rather poor film, quickly shot, below average special effects and some bad science.

Ice Quake (2010) CATASTROPHIC is a gross understatement for this and all of these super cheesy uninteresting productions that are filmed here in British COLUMBIA. I too am discussed with this 'club' that uses public tax money too present this garbage to the movie viewing public.I for one can not get enough of 'disaster type or mother nature ruling the earth. when I come across a movie like this my first instinct is too look it up on IMDb. TO see the what and where etc. It is almost instinctive now when I read a title, that the movie may be another crappy unbelievably poor attempt at entertainment. when I see filmed in British COLUMBIA,I GET READY FOR THE WORST CGI on this planet. I have seen movies from decades ago with much better imaging that we get here in regards to this sci-fi crap produced here in British COLUMBIA. one could only imagine this is some kind of 'old boys club' who is the moron approving our money to go to these parasites called >PRODUCERS< what a laugh.I want in on our money also. 1 million Canadian lost their homes and jobs,in recent years and some arrogant slob is handing out our cash.one can only conclude some type of payola is going on, maybe not in the material way, but someone is laughing all the way to British Columbia. how many times have I said too myself and friends, why don't theses jokers write some thriller type script ..stay with the movie line, but show us some intelligence , stop the gross slap in our face.and show some pride, instead of this crap. CGI is the worst as usual

This is a remarkably bad movie, and I'm annoyed I watched it. For me, it ties with Stonehenge Apocalypse as the worst film of 2010.You can tell almost instantly that this is a film by, for, and about Canadians, dressed up for some reason to look like they are part of various US organizations and locations.Actually, I will give them credit for having no obvious Canadian landmarks or signs (other than the terrain itself). But then why are the taxpayers of Canada paying to help make this film, through tax credits? Shouldn't it at least be set in Canada, to earn that funding?Also, I am hopeful that it isn't really the goal of Canadian filmmaking to make US people look like morons.Predictably, as in most Canadian films, and in most disaster films, these are some of the worst special effects seen in a film this century. Mostly it's the same effect over and over, as people dive and dodge not to have to share screen time with it. Who can blame them? The Colonel and his staff are ... inexplicable. When Ram figures out that the "anomalies" (what is this? Star Trek?) are along a network of caves, I fully expected the Colonel to order something like "Kill the Caves. Warp Factor 5. Red alert. Don't let them get away" and then sip some coffee, looking Deeply Concerned.This is probably the worst use of cold in a film since Batman & Robin (1997).I'll agree with another comment that this is certainly the worst use of flashlight technology I've seen in any film I can remember. It might sort of work that way, but your chances are exponentially better if you actually aim the light at the people you want to see you.Also, if there's a methane leak into your air, breathing through a cloth isn't going to help. Methane is not a solid like soot. Just like nitrogen (78% of our atmosphere) in regards to human health, methane is a non-toxic gas, only harmful to our breathing when there's so much that it pushes away breathable air.It wasn't totally awful. There was a sort of family story there. And Brendan's still cute. But really, it's just not worth it. This film should be tossed down a chasm, and ignited.

This contains spoilers.ICE QUAKE is NOT a movie for flashlight geeks. I am not sure if I have ever seen such poor and unrealistic use and handling of flashlights in a TV show or movie anywhere close to as bad as the flashlight handling in ICE QUAKE. The actors "aimed" the flashlights at least 90º away from where any normal person would find it helpful. Often in rescue movies actors are seen yelling at distant search planes or at helicopters thundering over head. This silly behavior is seen often in movies and TV shows. Sadly, ICE QUAKE finds a new level of unrealistic behavior.Even when the actors are waving the lights around with spastic thrashing arm movements, the beams of light do not once even accidentally point in a useful direction. Perhaps cast and crew were all suffering from 100% snow blindness during the filming of this movie???