12/20/2023 0 Comments Devour frozen foods actorsThe students include Atom Galen(Aaron Ashmore), whose father is an oil man as ironic as it may seem, Federico(Kyle Schmid), with a phobia towards bugs of any kind, and Ling Chen(Steph Song). Also, along for the trip is Kruipen's estranged daughter Evelyn(Martha MacIsaac). David Kruipen(Kilmer)and their helicopter pilot will become endangered once they land at the research center. The lives of students who accept an invitation from Dr. Infestation horror, with a global warming message, regarding prehistoric parasites which are unleashed after a woolly mammoth is unearthed by melted ice on a Canadian Arctic island infecting a research team(.led by Val Kilmer as a famous ecologist known for his vocal outcry towards mankind's awareness and acknowledgment of our treatment of Mother Earth). When will this annoying fad be over? Overall, the movie is well done, has good special effects, somewhat of an original story that is pretty interesting, but is more interested in furthering grlpower than its own aims. Hollywood's warped political/social agenda is undermining their own artistic work. Instead we get the usual teen team led by some girlie who's of course much tougher than the guys- so much so that when a guy can't hack someone's arm off she rushes to grab the meat cleaver. Had this movie been cast with adults, it could have been a striking movie. And actually the ideas behind it of radical ecologists perpetuating eco-bio-terror is very interesting. Suddenly Kilmer shows up.but he has different plans than the kids. But they have to survive until help arrives. The kids find Kilmer's research and tapes and discover that the helicopter has been disabled by someone and have to call for help. And from here things get annoying as the daughter takes charge of sorts since the males are as usual completely useless romantics. It went from the mammoth's brain to the bear to the crew and now to some of them. The kids realize that there is some prehistoric bug that is infecting everyone. Suddenly one of Kilmer's colleagues appears but she is ends up dying in a few minutes. The helicopter pilot is bitten by something, and so is one of the students- all over her body. The kids spend the night but problems surface. When the kids arrive, no one is at the base camp except for the body of the bear. Meanwhile some students are sent to study with him and his daughter goes along for the ride- even though he begs her not to go. He is filming some type of a confessional. Later his crew is getting sick and crazy. A polar bear he and his crew are tracking is found lunching on the brains of the corpse of a mammoth no less, that is surfacing thanks to the thawing. Apparently the glaciers are melting quickly. Val Kilmer again plays an environmental scientist (as he did in The Chaos Experiment) this time doing research in Canada. It's still better than most, and it has some really redeeming qualities to it. There's a bit of bad acting on the part of a few characters (though all the main ones are excellent), and as I stated the movie isn't miraculously good in any way. Anyone who likes realism and thrillers/horror will probably have a jolly fine time watching this one. Your focus is shifted to the CGI and the huge explosions the MTV generation seems to love, like some magician distracting your attention so he can get away with tricking you (out of a good plot). In most movies (*ahem* multi-million dollar productions) stuff like this, commonly called realism, is just glazed over. Another thing that surprised me is that bodies don't vanish, the same with tracks and bruises etc. There are no huge aliens, there's no gratuitous nudity and it doesn't take one chop with a cleaver to cut someones arm off. Also gunshots don't sound like tanks, and they don't make 10" holes in people. From phobias, realistic explanations of how they came to the conclusions they did, to a person using a multimeter and electrical tape to actually fix something. It features realistic portrayals of human behavior all the way through. Even though the movie as a whole isn't really awesomely smashing in any way, the first thing that really struck me is how well done and thought out it all is.
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