To quote our indispensable forum members: "Blank tits! Lots of death! And bad actors!" It's all there, but sadly, any sense is out cold, acting is stiff, pacing is glacial and if there was any point in the movie, it was put on ice.What happened: a comet smacked straight into Russia, sending dust into the atmosphere and screwing up the global climate, so to speak. I'm still wondering, who invented the "New United Northern States" name, but hey, nuns didn't save the world any time before, did they? Anyway, someone starts playing with a half-forgotten orbital microwave cannon (which failed to knock down that comet mentioned earlier, but apparently works pretty well as a WMD), so the nuns send in a crack(-smoking) team of special (needs) operatives, consisting of a dishonorably discharged hero, his dog, stuck-up colonel, owner of aforementioned blank tits and daughter of the WMD designer, to shut down both the cannon and whoever's fiddling with it.What happens next, is a parade of bad CGI, cheap set decorations, cheesy acting, gratuitous display of blank tits, pointless subplots and cringe-worthy dialogue. So don't wonder why the reception was so frigid.

Did you ever read "Time of the Great Freeze" by Robert Silverberg or go see "Damnation Alley?" If so, then you've seen this film before--only this time, it's a post Tunguska-like comet impact instead of World War III and no giant cockroaches this time. Dean Cain and a husky named "Sasquatch" lead a team through Ice Age Europe to rescue lost scientists trapped in Berlin in Landmaster-like vehicles. A B-movie science fiction film with all of the associated trappings. Not too bad digital special effects.Turn off your brain and enjoy, then go get "Damnation Alley" for a (slightly) better performance.

I read the reviews during opening credits and decided I want to see just how bad a movie could be. I have to admit---I did some channel surfing during many parts. The acting was thin and it had the macho woman/emotional man bits as with a lot of made for TV movies these days. I have to say, its not the worst I've seen and others that could come close are shown right here on the SCi Fi channel. I liked the hard nosed commander though. I kept thinking that if I made a movie, I could do so much with his character.Maybe an OK movie for a bunch of young teens during a sleep over or if you have a serious case of insomnia at 3am. Other than that, watch one of those old B&W Sci Fi's with the space ship hanging from a string

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.