10.5: Apocalypse
by John Lafia
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Actor: Beau Bridges, David Cubitt, Dean Cain, Kim Delaney, Oliver HudsonDirector: John Lafia
Brand: Echo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 169 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: 42079
Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
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- A massive 10.5 quake tears apart the West Coast, triggering an unrelenting series of natural disasters that threaten to turn the American landscape into a hellish wasteland. Seismologist Samantha Hill (Kim Delaney, TV's Army Wives) sees an even greater threat: an ever-widening fault line that's heading for the country's two largest nuclear reactors. As the rumbling fault line continues to grow, Sa
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DVD Review: I Pity You NBC!
Summary: 1 Stars
Bad script. Worse science. Throw in some good actors and computer animation to make it seem realistic ... but oh! It doesn't work. Not anymore, NBC. Asteroid was bad. This is worse. You can start with the title, which plagiarizes the title of yet another completely-ignorant-of-science disaster movie, The Day After Tomorrow. (Unlike this, however, TDAT was actually a pretty good movie.)
That in a nutshell describes NBC's 10.5 Apocalypse.
It starts where the original 10.5 left off. Now, I didn't like that movie either, but at least they got right the fact that there is a lot of seismic activity on the West Coast. But then California fell into the ocean. You get the idea that the show's producer got jilted by some Hollywood starlet, and that's why they insisted on destroying Los Angeles and the Hollywood sign. Or, more likely, they just copied every disaster flick since 1990. The scientific problem with that movie is that a.) they turned two fault zones with completely different motions into what is essentially a rift valley, b.) they missed a very good opportunity to show how seismologists actually measure the magnitude of an earthquake - which, by the way, does not increase as the earthquake gets longer, c.) they forgot that nuclear weapons are better at creating or triggering earthquakes than stopping them, and d.) they forgot to realize that magnitude 10.5 earthquakes only happen as the result of asteroid impacts. They could have combined 10.5 and Asteroid and been right about a few things.
Well, apparently the earthquake the seismologists started to stop the West Coast from sinking into the Pacific caused a tsunami. Goodbye Hawaii. Then next, the volcanoes in the Cascades start going off one by one. I suppose they forgot to research that too. Although a movement along the Cascadia subduction zone would feed a little extra crust into the area, resulting in a few extra eruptions perhaps, that process would take at least a hundred (thousand?) years or more. I don't know, I'm not a geologist, but I'm thinking they hurried things up for the sake of time. Well, I suppose that's forgiveable.
This is where we are introduced to a pair of brothers who insist on working out their struggles during the heat of a rescue mission, completely ignoring protocol. Their little argument about who leads the pair will wear you out through the rest of the movie. So ... Sam Hill's father, the great earthquake genius who conveniently predicted everything that happens in the two movies, is stuck in a Las Vegas that is slowly sinking beneath the ground. (Gee, you would have thought he would have gone somewhere he knew was safe.) Meanwhile her boyfriend is reading the temperature of Lake Mead, and instead of calling out a rate of temperature increase, he decides to yell out the temperature every four seconds, making him so stupid that he tells his pilot to fly him below the level of the dam, *after* saying that the dam will break from an earthquake or something. Well, he dies and Sam Hill seems briefly upset. Then she's back onto the mission like nothing happened. Sucks to be him.
Meanwhile, there's a fault line that insists on targeting Mount Rushmore snaking across the Midwest where there is no fault line. Pause.
Wouldn't it make more sense to have the fault start in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, which is where the North American plate attempted to rift itself apart some hundreds of millions of years ago? They could have made their fault follow the course of the Mississippi River! But they didn't. Unpause.
Our famous band of brothers is called in to save other members of the cast in Las Vegas. Conveniently Sam Hill's father is able to make his way up and through the various levels of the building without much help. Our genius/hero is rescued along with a few strippers he brought with him, and the big brother dies a theatrical death, since it was apparently easier to kill one of them than to have them resolve their conflict.
So the Midwestern fault is snaking toward a nuclear reactor. This time, the bright idea is to use explosives that are a million times less powerful than the atomic bombs they used to "save" the West Coast to divert a fault that is about ten times the size of the San Andreas. Yeah, makes a lot of sense. But it works ... briefly and inexplicably so. Nature ultimately wins and splits the nation in two with a 50 mile wide channel of water.
Now, think on this. The fault has probably already killed a few million people, having gone through Dallas and Houston, and it's already destroyed George Washington's stone face on Mt. Rushmore. But the President and his scientist hacks are upset only *after* the fault reaches the Gulf of Mexico? Give me a break. After all those people dying, having a canal through the Midwest, opening up tons of new places for sea trade, imports and exports, plus delivering a whole lot of water (albeit salt water) to the often dry Plains states, seems like a pretty good thing, even if it does split the country in two. So why is everybody so upset about it now? Indonesia is made of at least 10,000 islands. I'm guessing they would all be on Prozac if they saw this movie ... or half a bottle of Ambien. And, of course, we get the comforting speech at the end. It seems to be more of a discourse on the political tensions in the US after the 2004 Presidential election between Kerry and Bush than a fitting end for the movie.
So there you have it. Spoilers and all. I'm very happy to spoil it for you. Now you can go watch a much cooler movie with much better acting and plot, like Twilight.
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