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I would give it a "1", but I've seen worse. Perfect for a drive-in theater, where you don't play attention to the movie, but not sure if they still exist. One question, how was this ever funded? Does this contain spoilers..?.. It comes spoiled. If it was directed as a comedy it would have gotten a higher score.

Like sharknado without the sharks.. or nado.. We have a new contender in the 'so bad it's good' category! This film will have you rooting for either the virus or global warming to take out the cast. In a standout performance, Tom Sizemore literally phones it in. In contrast to her costar Torrey Richardson delivers a sheer 90 minutes of panicked hysteria at a level uncommon for a main protagonist while Ramiro Leal on the other hand almost seems to sleepwalk his way through it. The action will have you on the edge of your seat as our heroes face one playground level challenge after another. This slow boil of a movie will have you wishing for a quick and merciful end but you will not be so lucky. Next level special effects give this masterpiece a blockbuster feel on a clearly shoestring budget. You'll be intrigued until the final frame as you're treated to the slowest credits roll in film history almost as if to say 'you did it...you made it to the end'

I saw the rating of 5 so thought that I would give it a go - I was half way through when I read the reviews. What can I add, it was just terrible; the film was trying to be a disaster movie but was just a huge disaster. One of the worst films ever, if it was billed as a comedy it might get a 3 rating.

This movie is worth the watch just to see how many flaws you can find. Polar vortex yet no one has a coat. Avalance yet no one has snow on them. The World has to evacuate to South yet no one is on the roads. These are only a few of so many laughable moments. You've been warned. 😂

You soon understand that the movie is a big BS. I will report the best part just for fun: Passenger on the aircraft speaking at the phone: "hey, think we have a problem" Person on the other side of the phone: "yeah I think the aircraft is falling down, take care and share the GPS location, I'll pass to pick you up when you crash"

Bad screenplay. Bad effects. Bad acting. My favorite was when the actors go into a city morgue in search of medicine. Movie was 90 minutes too long.

Their 30 hours away from safe zone, and then, miraculously, 1 hour away. Funniest, and most honest statement, is from younger actor who is injured says "nothing is impossible to us." How true during this whole movie.

Ridiculous movie. First scene they're out complaining how freezing cold it is in the Arctic they come inside and the first thing the woman does is strip down to her running bra, Well the guy is drinking whiskey to get warm what a ridiculous movie

I have seen better special effects in Roblox. How can it be that with today's video technology they can only come up with such a bad imitation? The acting is horrible. When they imitate a crash the actors move like the Muppets inside the car.

And seriously, are they really using walkie-talkies to talk from America to the Arctic Ocean?

We started watching this movie with zero expectations and it didn't live up to them. I never thought it would be possible to make a movie that would make Sharknado seem like an Academy Award winner, but here it is. The bad science, bad acting, bad writing and bad effects start in the first scene. A couple of minutes into the movie we decided to see how many scientific inaccuracies we could spot. We lost track after ten minutes. If you want to get a good buzz on, make a drinking game of it. You'll empty a bottle in a half hour...max.

This movie was the perfect length at 1:29:44 runtime. They did a great job at being an hour and a half long.

I respect the bravery of filming apocalypse snow scenes in what appeared to be summer in CA with a blue filter on top.

I admire the movie for unabashedly taking on a viral pandemic apocalypse and a winter storm apocalypse at the same time. A few years ago it would have been called unbelievable. Today, it's actually pretty much what I see on the headlines. Is this movie prophetic?

The budgeting choices were ruthless. It seems there was no money for special effects, but also no money for makeup, wardrobe, or believable dialog. Or ice, this ice apocalypse was often suspiciously devoid of any ice. I think maybe all the money went to hair, and some of the background music. Tough decisions were made and I respect that.

The scientific premise for why the world was ending (something about fires and glaciers and no salt in the water) was believable to me. But it should be noted I don't know anything about climate science. Maybe I do now.

It was pretty bad, but I'm not getting the 1 and 2 stars. I've seen PLENTY of much worse disaster movies, and movies in general. The young cast is enthusiastic, which is nice. They aren't little princes and princesses, such as I've seen in many movies. Tom Sizemore is an accomplished actor, and he does his thing here. I'm glad for his presence. There's another 'old hand' who lends his skills as a generous stranger. The scenery's great, there are enough unfortunate deaths for it to be not entirely unrealistic. Pretty painless way to kill 1 1/2 hours, and none of the silly melodrama that we can't avoid, in the big money movies.

Well, at least this 2020 movie's cover looked good.

I opted to sit down to watch the 2020 movie "Apocalypse of Ice" without having ever heard about it. But I have to admit that I liked the movie's cover, and I do enjoy catastrophe movies.

Now, the problem with the catastrophe movie genre is that the majority of the movies that make up the bulk here are essentially laughable movie with atrocious special effects. But on the odd chance that "Apocalypse of Ice" would be a great movie, of course I sat down to watch it.

Then the name The Asylum popped up on the screen, and every bit of chance of this being a great movie sort of dwindled like darkness at the crack of dawn. Yet, I continued to watch the movie, and actually watched it to the very end.

A movie like "Apocalypse of Ice" is pretty straight forward. You know what you get with this kind of movie, and director Maximilian Elfeldt delivered exactly what you would expect, despite the fact that writer Ryan Ebert gave the director very little to work with.

Disaster and catastrophe movies needs proper special effects and CGI to make it convincing and believable. Unfortunately that was something that "Apocalypse of Ice" didn't have, and the movie was just a lukewarm - pardon the pun - addition to the genre.

Visually then the effects in "Apocalypse of Ice" were passable, for sure, but it was hardly grand special effects that will knock you over or impress you by any means.

The storyline is simplistic, and like many other catastrophe movies there were just so many things happening that made little sense or would be insanely implausible to happen. But of course, for a movie meant for entertainment purposes, everything goes. And needless to say that "Apocalypse of Ice" was insanely predictable.

The acting in the movie was actually adequate enough, especially when taking into consideration the severe limitations imposed upon the actors and actresses by having a less than passable script and storyline. The only familiar face on the cast list for me was Tom Sizemore, and he is not really top notch in my book.

I must admit that I was impressed with the fact that the weather could flash freeze entire metropolis cities in an instant, yet the main characters in the movie would strut about wearing garments not even suitable for even the mildest of winter weather.

If you enjoy catastrophe movies you might want to do yourself a favor and skip on "Apocalypse of Ice", because it was actually a rather laughable movie and a lousy attempt of a catastrophe movie.

While I managed to endure the entire movie to the end, I can't really claim that I was particularly entertained. Actually, I bet all memories of the movie will have vanished from memory within a week. This is not a movie that warrants more than a single viewing - if you even manage that. My rating of the 2020 movie "Apocalypse of Ice" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

This has got to be the most horrible movie ever made. The acting was atrocious and it looked like it was made in someone's basement - that together screwed up the message. Don't watch.

Worst film I've seen in 12mths and I've watched a few bad ones! Dreadful acting, poor quality CGI, completely unrealistic .. drilling ice cores with a domestic hand drill? Ice walls so cold it threatens humanity yet not even shiver from the guy walking around outside in a shirt? ... poor dialogue, the list goes on.. I've had primary school nativities hold my interest better. Let's not also forget the not to subtle attempt to make ALL the women the heroines whilst portraying the the men as cowards, weak or just bumbling idiots.

OMG! Why did they bother to make this movie. It has the worst special effects I've ever seen in a movie, the worst script, and terrible acting. Even the plot didn't make sense. Why is their focus on saving the virus cure? The people who are freezing to death don't care about a virus.

I was going to pile on with how absolutely awful this was, but, it seems there's little need... 25 minutes in and I'm out.

Poor Tom, getting himself into this.

Terrible CGI, bad storyline and bad acting, a waste of time.

Clearly no film set, no computer graphics; very much a home movie. Script trying to be technical but failing. Is it a student exam piece perhaps? (that's being charitable!) Actors desperately trying to make it exciting and believable but the script lets them down. Only seen first hour -can't manage any more. Not even interested to know if they save the world. But maybe it could provide a laugh.

Did a 5th grade drama class write and produce this mess? Nope, they would've done much better.

I feel so bad for Sizemore, they clearly cast him to give appeal to their B-grade film, but even he couldn't get it past the F-grade. Firstly, casting him as a scientist - with a liquor cabinet as big as the equipment shelf, was the biggest joke of all. I mean, poor guy, I'm sure he wanted to drink non stop for real, and was hoping for some action, but instead tried his best with some scientific lingo and equipment, and sitting in a chair with a walkie talkie for 95% of the film.

Then they go and drop hottie Christina Licciardi into an ice hole, so we don't get to see her after the first 5-10 mins, but instead, get to see horrible acting by amateur p0rnstar Emily Bloom trying to become an actress aka Tania Fox for the rest of the film.

But the worst, was the "award-winning for worst screenplay" mess by newb writer Ryan Ebert. It was mainly 90 minutes of treacherous back and forth nonsense plot-hole riddled scenes with the driving of two cars with 1980's quality CGI of slipping and swerving, and in a part of an airplane with the wimp boyfriend, and with Sizemore the entire time (apparently communicating with one heck of a long range walkie-talkie) with dialogue by all that, well, a 5th grader could write better. And it's not like this type of story hasn't been told hundreds of times before, all much better.

Maximilian Elfeldt's directing and editing was adequate, for a B film. The score was surprisingly bearable for a B film. The cinematography was the only decent quality - for a B film. I'm still giving it a generous 3/10, going to Sizemore, as I do feel bad he got dragged into this, and to the laughs I had for how bad this was, AND to whoever lost money funding this mess. I mean seriously, who said "that's a wrap", approved the final cut, and went to distribution thinking this will be anything above a 2/10 rating?

This is easily the greatest movie to be called Apocalypse of Ice ever. All other movies of the same title, pale in comparison. Apocalypse of Ice is to movie making what ebola is the blood donation. Total paradigm destroyer.

Where to start.....just don't. I paid £4.39 from sky to rent this film, thank goodness I didn't opt for buy and keep. Still it would been useful to get rid of guests post COVID. Five minutes of this would have them bolting for the door without a see you later. The film makes no sense, huge holes in the plot, abysmal acting (?), move the whole world in 24 hours to within 100 miles of the equator where they would be given a vaccine to save them from a global pandemic. Erm, you've got 1 vial of it, not actually going to make a difference. I gave up after 20 minutes, there was some paint drying on the wall which was far more interesting. Don't waste your money....or your life.

Worst film i have ever seen. Bad effect,Bad actors....