Product Description: INTER SCI climatologist David Koch (Jeff Fahey) has evidence that a shift in the Earth's polarity triggered the last Ice Agein 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!
Great movie! Sure, it's a low-budget, campy movie...but that's what makes it great! Good acting, bad dialogue, and special effects. Definitely a must see if you like low-budget sci-fi movies.
Absolute Zero is a ZERO This movie lives up to it's name, in fact the writers are probably still laughing at not only coming up with the title but getting paid minimum wage to write the script. This movie is pure garbage, your time is better spent watching weeds grow than viewing this "masterpiece" Erika Eleniak, the only reason, most people watched this, looks like she gained 40 pounds for this movie. Don't waste your time!
Actually, pretty decent once you get past the title OK, the science is nonsense. And winds at absolute zero? Winds=friction=heat, so nonsense. Still, it's nice to see Jeff Fahey (an amazing actor; note how different he is, vocally, posture, etc., from his role on The Lost). "Science is always right" he says. Nope. One could argue the opposite. Still and all, the script is very good, with some great lines, and there's lots of action. The FX aren't up to Day After Tomorrow, but aren't totally hokey. It's a B movie, but a good B movie, and definitely not a D movie (like Sunshine!). For the price, a real bargain, and a great addition to your disaster film library. One little oddity: I guess the script called for Fahey's character to be David Koch, and the DVD case repeats this. But everyone calls him David Kotchman (or Kotzman).
THE ULTIMATE LOW BUDGET EXPERIENCE This has to be the funniest movie I have ever seen. The sad part is it was supposed to be serious. It had to be the most ridiculous movie I've seen, from the awful actors to the idiotic story line that includes an iceberg in the Miami harbor, the very predictable reunion of two old lovers made convenient when the present husband of the former girlfriend gets taken out by a virtual palmtree thru the windshield, and the scattered bursts of below zero weather sandwiched between otherwise 80 degree weather. One of my favorite parts was when the scientists had to go outdoors to get to another building when the temperature was already like 355 degrees below zero and still dropping dressed in paper thin looking spacesuits. Another favorite was the helicopter showing up about 5 minutes after the temperature hit minus 459 and flying directly over the shelter the scientists had sought refuge in. I guess they put Prestone in the fuel to keep it from freezing solid, as the same must have been done to the window on the roof, the only two things in the whole city that somehow went unscathed by the absolute zero cold. The boy and girl attempt at romance was goofy beyond words, and the money hungry executive was the worse job of over-acting this side of James T. Kirk.
Absolute Nonsense "Absolute Zero" is one of the stupidest disaster epics of the last few years. In what is probably the least scientifically accurate film since Ed Wood described the particles of sunlight in "Plan Nine From Outer Space," we are treated to a very confusing plot that involves a convergence of global warming (of course), a violent shift in the polarity of the earth's magnetic field, and an ancient cave painting found in Antarctica. Who knew that a polarity shift would not only entomb Miami in ice, but simultaneously make Alaska tropical, all the while making all of equatorial earth dark? I clearly need to brush up on my physics.
Sprinkle in a bit of corporate greed, a pointless anti-military screed, and good looking ex-lovers who (obviously) are still in love; ladle in a good helping of inane script, terrible acting and direction (note especially the complete lack of reaction from the mother and daughter duo who have just lost their husband and father, respectively); stir with a heaping helping of unbelievably bogus special effects (I like the windstorm best), and you have the recipe for "Absolute Zero."
This film is utterly detestable as a conventional movie, however, if you are a diehard fan of movies so bad they're fun to mock, this is a sure winner. I gave it three stars: as a quality motion picture it is way off the low end of the rating scale; as trash cinema it has some wonderful moments of eye rolling, but is recommended only for experienced bad movie fans.
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