It's more like a practical joke being played on the audience than an attempt at making a real film. I've seen much more realistic effects on a Nintendo 64 game console than in some of the shots in this film. However, many of the on-location shots seem to have been done when there is not a single snowflake in sight. This film borders on being so bad that it is good in a funny way, but is just too annoying to be funny. I'm sorry, but for a disaster movie, and as a film in general, this one is nothing special. The acting is also highly problematic. I want an hour and 20 minutes of my life back.
The fault for this has to rest squarely on the shoulders of the director. Even a novice YouTuber could have done a better job at special effects. A very large number of these are pretty bad low-budget sci-fi films. Few do anything but depend on extravagant and expensive computer-assisted visual effects to tap into our more baser fears and pleasures in bringing the goods. They should pay you to watch it!! Disaster movies get a bad rap. The characters in this film are two dimensional, completely unbelievable and absolutely unlikable. However, the filmmakers take all of this far too seriously, and while the story at least is absurd enough to be goofily enjoyable, it has no campiness in its delivery to be what it should.
. Shame on whoever was associated with this waste of good film. The biggest problem with the film is that some of the film was clearly shot on-location, but the location they chose did not even vaguely resemble where the characters were supposed to be at the time. But really a 1 Star. Aside from the ridiculous plot, which I am pretty used to with sci-fi films by now, the direction and special effects in this film are so bad that you are constantly being distracted from the main story. Story, acting continuity all so bad.
Van on side of road is black on a clear day, cut to close up of a gold van with snow on it and snowing Bwahhh hahaha. The weather outside changes from winter to summer and back in seconds with no explanation. While people rush to evacuate, Mark Joel Berti and his wife Helen Jennifer Lee Wiggins go on the hunt for their daughter Brie Lauren Esposito and her boyfriend Tyler Charles N. This is not a spoiler, but the film centers around the characters being stuck in heavy snow and ice in a remote, high-altitude location. There was enough shaky camera footage in this film to make me reach for my Dramamine before it was even half finished. The rest of the film's a waste of time, and there are disaster movies out there that are way better than this.
Their reactions are often way overboard in relation to the images they are supposedly reacting to. Arctic Apocalypse really stands out as one of the worst low-budget films I have seen in a long, long time though. If I could give this crappy movie negative stars I would. I kept watching to see how much more rediculous it could get. The acting is really corny, the special effects aren't well done, and the plot is neither anything special nor original. The only good thing about it is the science behind the weather anamolies, but that's it. A storm sinks the Northern Hemisphere under a devastating wave of ice and snow, New York City entirely buried under a super fast moving glacier.
Look what that did for the Sharknado franchise which this movie gives a not so subtle nod to , where logic be damned in the name of astronomical incredulity rules the day. I blame the script for this rather than the actors. But at least they have that. There are plenty of other continuity lapses as well, which make following the plot nearly impossible. I watch a lot of movies.
Not to mention loose acting and generic writing. The best actors in the world could not breathe any life into these cardboard characters and these are definitely no Hollywood A-Listers in the roles. Even for a cheap sci-fi production, this is one film that never should have been released, even direct to Amazon. . . .
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