Post Impact

Starring:Dean Cain
Studio: Dej (Ingram)
Product Type: DVD

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Crap fest...
CAIN ON ICE

Post Impact
Starring: Nigel Bennett , Dean Cain , Hanns Zischler , John Keogh , and Bettina Zimmermann
Director: Christoph Schrewe
Manufacturer: First Look Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B000A2X46U
Release Date: 2005-08-24

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Crap fest..........2006-06-11

During the opening credits of this movie news reports play in the background telling of the aftermath of the meteor's destruction. One of these news reports claims that the only form of communication still available is satellite phone. My question is, who in their right mind is broadcasting the news when there's no way anyone will see it? Also, why is there a thunderstorm in the United States when the meteor is crashing in Europe? It's stupid script oversights like these that completely ruin this movie. Bad computer effects, mediocre acting... it's all here. And it's not even very exciting for an action movie.

CAIN ON ICE.......2005-09-11

One might expect this to be a cheap rip off of DAY AFTER TOMORROW, which it isn't, but it's not a great movie in its own right, merely passable entertainment. A comet crashes into the European countryside, sending that part of the world into a frozen wasteland. Now three years PI (post impact), some crazy person is using a satellite to "control the world"---for what reasons we're never sure of. But macho hero Dean Cain leads a group of soldiers into a frozen Berlin where the satellite is being controlled, in efforts to stop the madman from destroying more cities. The CGI effects are fair to middlin, but the plot is slow moving and there aren't that many surprises in store. There have been a lot worse movies in this genre, but there have also been so many better.

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Watch Only In The Event of Being Snow-bound...
How Many Movies Can You Make About a Meteor Hitting Earth?
Will a real script writer please stand up?
A little bit above average
Made For TV Movie Quality Film

Post Impact
Starring: Nigel Bennett , Dean Cain , Hanns Zischler , John Keogh , and Bettina Zimmermann
Director: Christoph Schrewe
Manufacturer: Dej (Ingram)
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B0002S65QS
Release Date: 2004-10-26

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Watch Only In The Event of Being Snow-bound..........2006-10-10

I love End-of-The-World disaster movies, especially the ones where a new Ice Age dawns on the Earth (Psychoanalysts have at it!). So naturally, this movie was a "Must-See" for me.
This movie was part of the Sci-Fi channel's original movie line-up and was financed by a German film company (hence most of the story revolves around a post-disaster Berlin). Not a negative, but definitely a cautionary sign, as Sci-Fi Pictures offerings seem to generally be more attempts to fill 2 hours of airtime than to offer high-quality original fare.
Now technically, the movie has its short-comings (e.g. many of the special effects are so obviously animation that it jars you out of the moment - the visuals of a frozen Europe and a cold-climated North Africa are merely adequate) but this is not a fatal weakness.
Acting is generally less than adequate. Dean Cain is almost decent in his leading role, but Nigel Bennett is a sad disappointment and Joanna Clark is totally out of her element (nice eye-candy, tho!)
But to be fair to the actors, they had a very little with which to work. Some of the lines the actors must deliver are so over-the-top and cornball, that unintentional comedy ensues. The plot was paper-thin and soon developed more holes than a New York street after a snowstorm. The set-up is ok although logic is not it's strong suit (i.e. the justification for Dean Cain's characters involvement) but forgivable. However, the final 1/2 hour or so of the movie was so incredibly stupid, the motivation of the various antagonist so vague and well, cartoonish, that any postives of the first half of the movie are duly squandered.
A movie to watch if you're stuck indoors during a blizzard, but not a keeper...

How Many Movies Can You Make About a Meteor Hitting Earth?.......2005-06-27

Here we are in Berlin, when a meteor unexpectedly crashes into Europe, causing a global ice age and chaos. Our protagonist is Tom Parker (Dean Cain), who was responsible for security at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin. Tom manages to get all sorts of key personnel onto the last plane leaving Berlin, but he inexplicably asks his wife and daughter to wait next to a wall while he gets onto the plane, whereupon some senior military person says, too bad, and smacks Tom around a little to prove his point.

A few years pass by and it appears that someone has left a light on in Berlin, so the government decides they need to check it out. Unfortunately, a super secret American satellite that someone set up to control only from Berlin destroys the plane carrying the team going to check out the activity in Berlin. Obviously there is more than just a light on in Berlin, there is some insidious activity. Further, the satellite is now positioned to take out the new government, and governments tend to get annoyed by things like that. So, a second expedition is put together to stop the satellite before it can be recharged. Of course Tom Parker is going with the expedition to see if his wife and child survived the cold and are waiting for him.

The expedition gets to Berlin and gets two really cool snow tanks. Of course there is the usual stupidity (every B science fiction movie has to have some stupidity of the plot stalls out) and one tank is lost right away. Soon the second tank is lost when it is attacked and the budget costs for the obviously animated tanks goes down.

It turns out that there are more than just a few people left in Berlin, and while their life is difficult, they seem to be doing reasonably well. Of course, there are those who have decided that they are going to destroy some portions of the world to get revenge on those who abandoned them. Then there is the person on the team who wants to destroy a different target altogether. The plot gets convoluted in an attempt to distract you from its increasing implausibility.

This movie is somewhat complicated, and suffers from the complexity. There is the plot device (the meteor), but on top of the plot device are at least four other plots. Unfortunately this movie does not have time to fully exploit all the various plots, so one plot I never so coming, and I thought to myself that throwing another, completely unrelated, plot into the mix was a bit bizarre. I said, "Huh?" and shook my head.

The good point of this movie was the snow tanks, though the animation was weak. After that, this movie is essentially a low budget disaster film, rehashing the "meteor hits the Earth" theme once more, but not doing it nearly as well as other movies where the meteor hits or nearly misses (for example, "Deep Impact" or "Armageddon"). I suppose if you collect movies about global disasters, you should probably have this one in your collection, but be sure to set your expectations low.

Will a real script writer please stand up? .......2005-02-16

Who finances these movies? You know the movies. The ones that look like they had a decent budget but the script was so badly written that you're positive you could have done better. Well, this is one of them. I'm a huge fan of the apocalypse/post-apocalypse genre, as well as anything sci-fi, but so many of them are killed by bad scripts, bad science, and bad acting. This movie happened to have absurd props too, despite the aforementioned decent budget. If I as a highschool dropout can point out technical and scientific flaws every few minutes, isn't something wrong? A pillar of ice poking through the bottom steel plate of a tank?!?! A satellite which was meant to beam microwave power to a ground station being in a non-geosynchronous orbit? People shrugging off gun shot wounds like they're scratches. Military personel bickering like teenagers? I really should move to wherever they're making these films because apparently they can benefit from my middle school education. It really breaks my heart when someone has the money to make a decent sci-fi movie, and they pay so little attention to things that cost no money to fix.

A little bit above average.......2004-12-02

This is a C grade movie and will entertain you. However, dont expect any blockbuster scenes from this movie. Most of the fake scenes are noticable but the suspence and the storyline will keep you watching till the end. As stated, some ofthe actors are not enpare with the main character, meaning their acting seems too forced and amateur. However the main character does a great job and it is a pity that he had to be stuck with this low budget movie. For those of you who enjoy the end of the world themes, this is a great one because it will show what it is like if earth was in an ice age. Unlike The Day After Tomorow, the bitter cold will be shown in several different locations from top of skyscrappers to what it's like living underground. In an enviromental perspective, it will dig a bit more. Worth a rental and a first time watch but I hardly consider this a keeper or to watch it a second time just for kicks when there are so many movies already out there.

Made For TV Movie Quality Film.......2004-11-23

I'm a big fan of Disaster films, so when I saw "Post Impact" at the video store I decided to check it out. The premise of Post Impact is pretty much the same'ol same'ol. A gigantic comic is about to collide with earth, drastically altering the Earth's climate. An obscure scientific project headed by heavily accented Germans(this time a satellite controlled "Microwave" ray-gun), is used to try to deflect the comet. Unfortunately, the ray-gun is unsuccessful, plunging Earth into a new Ice Age.

Despite some rather cheesy CGI (the snow tanks), and some bad acting (primarily on the part of the British agent, and the scientists), I rather liked Post Impact. Dean Cain when not sporting a beard isn't too hard on the eyes, and the plot was entertaining, if a bit far-fetched.

I give this film 3 stars. If it weren't for a really sappy ending and some uninspired sets, it might've been great.

Average customer rating:

Nifty bit of sci-fi hokum that isn't rocket science

Post Impact
Director: Christoph Schrewe
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
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Product Description

When a comet unexpectedly alters course and strikes Earth, the Northern Hemisphere is struck by a new Ice Age. American Embassy Security Man Tom Parker had to leave behind his wife and daughter in Berlin and has been looking for a way back to find them. His chance comes when a secret military microwave satellite comes to life again, destroying a plane, and research states that this could only have been an action controlled from the frozen former capital of Germany.

Customer Reviews:

Nifty bit of sci-fi hokum that isn't rocket science.......2006-12-09

Nifty bit of sci-fi hokum that you can watch on a dull evening when there's nothing else on TV.

Dean Cain is okay as soldier Tom Parker trying to get back to his family in Berlin after a Meteor strike has left the earth covered in ice and snow.

When a military command centre realises that a long forgotten experimental satellite is still operational, an expedition is set up to find the base from where it is controlled which just happens to be in what is now known as the "death zone" a place that was once Europe.

However it soon becomes clear that the Satellite is under hostile control and the first expedition is wiped out but the second one manages to make it to Europe and so begins a long trek across ice and snow to find out who or what is controlling the satellite.

When the expedition finally get to Berlin, Parker and his colleagues, all military except for one female scientist Anna Starndorf played by little known actress Bettina Zimmerman find that a group of survivors have made a new home in the subway system of the former German city. Anna like Park is trying to find out if her family, i.e. her father (also a scientist) survived the deep freeze and to her joy she finds out he is among the survivors.

However nothing is what it seems, and we have quite a few surprising twists and turns in the plot before the satellite it is back under friendly control and Parker can finally find out what happened to his wife and daughter.

The special effects are mediocre, the acting average and we have the orphaned girl that Anna and Parker take under their wing along the way with a loveable husky called Sass who saves the day on quite a few occasions so all in all it is a movie that you could call cheesy.

Despite this I enjoyed watching this movie; it was easy to get into, had a twist in the tale and also had a nice happy-ever-after ending that few movies now-a-days have which I liked being the big softie that I am.

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