Inevitably, a scientist and his family happen to be caught up in the natural disaster and must fight to survive nature's onslaught. ICE QUAKE is an extraordinarily poor SyFy Channel disaster movie that sees a river of liquid methane causing the very landscape to split and shift in Alaska. Overall, Ice Quake has its moments but it is nothing great. The direction and pace are both uneven, there are times when the direction is tolerable but others when it is sloppy and hackneyed and in regards to the pace the middle drags and the end feels rushed, while the script is really quite poor and clichéd. The effects are rather generic, the film does have some dodgy flashlight technology and while it is not as bad as other Syfy movies there are many inconsistencies and errors, the one regarding the methane is just one of these. The acting, excepting the leads, is nothing to rave about, and I also couldn't connect to most of the characters, so much so towards the end I honestly didn't really care about whether they lived or died. However, Ice Quake isn't particularly good either. The scenery is quite striking, the story was interesting in concept and to start with, Brendan Fehr is cute, charming and does show at least a bit of charisma and the female didn't grate on me or strike me as too bland. Ice Quake isn't a terrible movie and Syfy have certainly done much worse. While I do not like most of Syfy's movies, I do watch them to see if there are any decent ones or any with novelty value.
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