Alertã de Gradul Zero [Romanian]
Crash Point Zero - Collisione Zero [Italian]
En Poder del Mal [Spanish]
Final Crash - Concorde in den Tod [German]
Perigo Abaixo de Zero [Portuguese]
Sifirin Altinda [Turkish]
Syntrivi stin Alaska [Greek]
Titkos Fegyver [Hungarian]
Tagline(s):
The struggle for survival starts now...
Nomination Year: 2023
SYNOPSIS:
This movie is ALL over the place. I'll try to summarize.
An archaeologist--scratch that, "antiques collector"--discovers Tesla's Death Ray in Siberia. Where it caused the Tanguska blast. And is controlled with the mind. But I digress. This mcguffin sparks international espionage on a charter plane while it's being transported to the States. The terrorists are barely thwarted, but the plane goes down on a mountainside in Canada. Most of the passengers survive, but are menaced by the cold, a ravenous bear, and the threat of the terrorists returning in force to kill them all.
The collector's daughter Nadia strikes out to seek help (carrying the Death Ray), and seemingly within 10 minutes finds a well-appointed abandonded vacation mansion/cabin. She calls the CIA from the working phones. And probably enjoys a soak in the hot tub while eating the caviar the owners left behind.
That's where Treat Williams comes in. Remember him, the alleged star? He isn't in the action until about halfway. But he gets to the mansion/cabin, only to be attacked by the terrorists and his partner killed! How did they know?
Of course, there was a mole in the CIA working for the terrorists. As all but the main-cast plane survivors meet grisly ends--well, one gets mauled by a guy-in-a-bear-suit, the others head out like the girl but somehow get lost for a full day and are killed in a stupid avalanche--Treat and Nadia try to get the Death Ray over the border into the States, but the main baddie catches up with them!
Treat sets Tesla's Self Destruct and blows him up. And the Death Ray. And (seemingly) half of Canada.
They kiss. And by "they" I mean the secondary characters Barbara and Maurice (who were kinda really the main characters in the nearly-entirely-separate B-story). Treat and Nadia do not kiss. The End.
Oh, and is this the part where I mention that nearly ALL the big-action sequences are literally stolen from other movies? The plane crash from Cliffhanger, the crazy car chase through the Christmas parade from Narrow Margin, and the bridge/border/truck explosion from The Long Kiss Goodnight. Not "similar"--THE ACTUAL FOOTAGE. Yeesh.
Bryan Cassidy
Smithee Award Nominations
"Wanna Run That By Me Again?"
Radiation Zone Wisdom: The Child Is Father to the Woman
After deciding to camp in the high-radiation zone, one of the guides tells our heroine: "The child is father to the woman." Uh...what? They tried to be pithy--but ended up Smithee...
Worst Science
Tesla's Mind-Powered Death Ray Caused Tanguska
"Tesla's Folly" uses electrical impulses from his brain to cause enough destruction to obliterate cities, because thoughts are energy. Suuuurrre.
"Cutting Butter With A Chainsaw"
Burning Your Bridges Behind You
Nadia rescues Ross from the bad guy, but not before Ross has set the Death Ray to self-destruct. Boy, that Nick Tesla sure knew how to make 'em. BOOOOOOOOOOOM! Bridge blows up! Cars fly everywhere! Flames! Wreckage! There goes Canada! It's even funnier to note that most of this is the literal same footage from The Long Kiss Goodnight.
Inane Dialogue
Will They Be Safe?
Some of the survivors opt to leave the plane. "Will they be safe?" asks the girl? "Oh, yeah, they'll be fine." Bear.
Acting Appropriately Stupid
Dumb TV Bitch Starts Avalanche
They're lost on the mountain, but here comes a rescue helicopter! To make sure she's seen (by both the copter and her TV fans), Jessica takes up the gun and starts shooting into the air...starting an avalanche that does a Total Party Wipe.
Director of such
films as Alabama Jones and the
Busty Crusade, and the
Bare Wench Project
series, he also finds time to direct
more mainstream fare...such as
Dinocroc vs.
Supergator, Fire Down
Below, and
Camel Spiders. Oh, and
this.
Rugged, big-nosed action star B-lister
in many, many B-list action flicks.
You've seen him. He's been in
Things To Do in Denver When You're
Dead (Critical Bill),
Hair (Berger), The
Phantom (Xander Drax), and
Deep Rising (John
Finnegan).
Prolific German actor. Makes a good bad
guy (not because he's German--I think
that needs to be said). Was Agent
Hartmann in Half Past Dead
and Bert Myers on "Highlander: The
Raven."
Played kinda goofy characters in sci-fi
flicks when younger; a mish-mosh of TV
later. Was on 30 episodes of "The Many
Loves of Dobie Gillis." And was in
Westworld as a technician.
Portly and walrus-mustachioed, he has a vast
Hollywood resume--you've seen him. Still best-
known as the "Jump to Conclusions" guy from
Office Space and the "Would You Like
To Change Your Bullshit Story" sheriff in
The Fugitive.