Arctic Blast

release year: 2010
genre: action
viewing setting: home streaming 6/10/26

synopsis: Holes in the atmpshere cause super-cold air to be sucked down, freezing inhabited areas.

impressions: This basically took one element of The Day After Tomorrow (the super-freezing storms) and made an entire movie out of that phenomenon. Here, it manifested as a "freezing fog" whose -90 degree temperatures killed anyone the mist came into contact with. It was all good fun, and honestly never looked like a cheaply-made movie (this could have been because it was Australian-made and didn't have the issues of a budget Hollywood creation.) There was a main family that got split up and had to survive peril, including fleeing from the advancing lethal fog weather. Of note: a lot of major cities shown being flash-frozen by the extreme cold.

acting: Michael Shanks is the main scientist and the only one who understands what's happening. Alexandra Davies is his wife who wants to divorce him because he's too focused on his work. Indiana Evans is their teenage daughter. Saskia Hampele is the main guy's co-worker, who experiences a medical crisis on top of everything else that's going on. Bruce Davison is some sort of CEO who runs a weather organization and can get things done in a crisis.

final word: Pretty good weather-disaster movie.

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