For science fiction content, this is the best sci-fi movie. This is a real world solution to meteorites. Hit them with a microwave beam to cause out-gassing which causes the meteorite to redirect its path. This what science fiction should be about one scenario and one technology. Untried technology has awry results. Meteorites lead to ice ages.The CGI looks like CGI. Nice female presence who get to some "acting" on scene even if its a little forced. To people who think cold is bad, for items- cold keeps equipment in excellent condition- keeps humidity right down and decay e.g. Lawson's Hut has survived 50 years. Freezing temperatures are only bad for animals and plants and some metals if stressed.

While the graphics pretty much sucked.. I did like this movie. The acting could have been better in many parts but it overall was a pretty good movie. I love the Dog in this movie and was very happy that they don't kill him off like they usually do in movies like this.. They didn't go with the typical dog saves human and dies.. However the sex in the shower part was poorly done in my opinion.. guy searching for his wife and child ends up screwing some other lady? wow. If you are planning on watching this movie, I advise that you not expect awesome graphics because as stated above they aren't the best.. It is clear this was probably a low budget film, I feel that had it had a slightly higher budget graphics probably would have been much better, or at least slightly better. For a "end of the world/Disaster" movie it is pretty good. I happen to like movies like this, but I have seen a few that are much better.

The concept was just about all that was worthwhile, and many others have done it much better. I felt sorry for Dean Cain as he tries to make this whole thing believable. The script seems to have been written by a high school drama class. I waited and waited to make something worthwhile happen in this story, but after awhile I just gave up and fell asleep in my chair. Was this written in German and was translated by an inept scribe? The special effects might have looked good if it had been carried out correctly, but maybe I'm just jaded. In summary, this is one of the movie-of-the-week never-was attempt at cashing in on movies like The Day After, which at least had world-class SFX.

This movie starts off with a decent premise: a meteor has hit the Earth in Europe and cast the world into a perpetual winter.The Northern Hemisphere is in an ice age and the equatorial areas are in a state of perpetual gloom and rain. Three years after the event, its determined that someone is controlling a satellite that has the capacity to destroy what remains of the Earth's population. A "crack" team is sent in to the impact zone in Germany to determine where the signals controlling the satellite are originating.So far so good, right? Wrong.The producers of this movie decided to destroy the promise of this movie by inserting terrible dialog, huge and obvious plot holes, glaring continuity errors, and so many logical and factual inconsistencies that the movie makes your head spin.Plot changes occur without any rhyme or reason; its as if they fired and hired writers but had already shot the scenes from the original writer and decided to leave it in the film.Heres a few clunkers: When the team is initially inserted via a special cargo plane carrying some weird airborne tank thingy, there appears to be about 8 crewmembers including the 4 main characters, but as they run into difficulties later in the movie, there always seems to be a couple extras who magically appear to be shot or garroted from behind, etc.When they meet with the subterranean denizens of Berlin, they all speak English, and are relatively unconcerned by this arrival of the first outsiders in three years. They are all wearing spiffy new ski jackets, yet burning trash in barrels like a bunch of Bowery bums.Dean Cains character takes several shots from a 9mm glock, yet is able to engage in hand-to-hand combat, and avoid falling from a catwalk by hanging on with one arm. During the same scene, he applies a tourniquet to his arm, (the same one he uses to dangle from the catwalk) and it disappears just before his second fight with "The Bitch who Wouldn't Die".Later, we see Cain in the closing shots wearing the same parka, which has miraculously had its bullet holes and bloodstains removed.All in all, I can only recommend this film to film students as a caution on how not to make a movie.