Ice (2011)

Please don't spend money on this.

Just perfect...

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Leave your thinking-cap off. Whoever wrote the screenplay didn't have much of a clue about cold weather. As a Canadian, I doubt that these characters would be so immune to the cold on the Greenland Ice Cap and in "minus 40" (Celsius) weather, when London gets frozen over with ice.A family struggles to get together, (by sheer coincidences, in most cases), with a crisis every ten to fifteen minutes, (for TV commercial breaks), and mindlessly finds a way to escape every peril, (whether an airplane crashes or a building collapses). It's "The Day After" and "Earthquake" and every other disaster movie, with every trope played out by a half dozen characters, again and again.It's "green" propaganda at its worst. An oil company drilling rig searching for oil in Greenland knocks the Ice Cap into the ocean, stops the Gulf Stream Current, and begins a rise in the ocean level. Millions will perish, (as environmental disasters already have wiped out a few countries, by 2020); but, the important thing is this "family" being reunited. Oh, yes, and the polar bear researchers; let's not forget about them, (as, by coincidence, they come to the rescue, and provide an airplane, to keep this roller-coaster going), 'cause polar bears are an important part of the environmental propaganda.SPOILER WARNING.After two episodes, or one very long watch, one understands why roller-coaster rides only last a few minutes; it's not the need for toilet breaks, but the tedium that sets in after rounding the same track,again and again and again. Mercifully, (spoiler), there wasn't a family pet that needed to be rescued, (again and again); so I'll give this frozen turkey one star.

Ice it's a sci-fi mini series about a future glaciation due to an exploitation of the environment from the mankind. Let's say the story , the script could be interesting, absolutely nothing new but let's say it's the better part of this series. Let's say that on this series there is an actor like Sam Neill (the only one who works fine) and others that are like Claire Forlani (that are absolutely embarrassing as actress definitely better as a model Who doesn't have to speak) so the cast in general is quite terrible. The directing seems quite OK for very low profile series and sometimes it's definitely bad like a south American drama of the 90's. It's a Uk series and you can feel it simply because all the word it's concentrated into the Uk and seems that exists only the Uk, no other nations if you are not considering just the poor immigrants from the rest of the Europe that wants to reach the Uk haven. Come on colonialism finished some times ago, seems a London and Uk style of life commercial. But what bother me more than all it's simply the stupidity of a lots of situations. A couple of examples.. The big frost arrived and all the airport in the north Europe close down, well our heroes takes a small airplane from Iceland and they are able to fly to UK. There is less 40 Celsius degree and there are people dressed as a sunny day in winter..no gloves, no wool bonnet, no scarf..and sometimes they put just a jacket over a Tshirt and they are just above 10 meters of snow. Crazyness. Visual effects are from quite decent to bad but I can say that on this series they are last of the problem. A poor cast, a poor direction and a lot of stupid situations create a recipe for a bad series. Probably the worst i watched in the last years

This is based on a great idea, and starts quite good. the first half an hours is quite OK, at least for a mediocre grade here, but then it deteriorates fast.It's full of both bad scripting, silly dialog, awful CGI and laughable ideas. The actors do their best, and there are quite a few great actors here, which is left with a ridiculous script. The longer into the miniseries the worse they struggle in doing their job.The worst is the extremely bad CGI. Even the ice and snow doesn't look like anything other than styrofoam. Simply laughable.Stay away, unless you have three hours to kill with less than MacGyver on DVD.

Well let me start of by saying that i like disaster movies and i can overlook some things that aren't realistic in those kinda movies,but this movie just asked to much of me. A ice age that starts from really hot sunny weather in england to -40 degrees in less then 48 hours. OK i can look past that because i also did it with the movie Day after tomorrow,but the writers and director never ever heard of hypothermia and the effects that it has on a human body,because when people can walk around with jeans and a normal shirt and jacket and wearing no gloves for hours in temperatures of -40 degrees with only a case of really mild shivers just doesn't stick with me and my IQ and is just plain stupid,there is a scene where the climb a solid steel ladder in a elevator shaft with bare hands and it doesn't bother them at all. These are some of the stupid things that are happening during this flick but there are many many more highly illogical happenings that just made my mind spin.I still give this a rating of 5 because the effects where pretty decent for a TV production,the actors did a OK job but try to shut off your brain,because mine started to hurt after a while.