Sue Smith Honestly, this wasn't a bad movie. The characters were likable and engaging.The relationships were plausible and compelling. The idea of the world's population struggling together seems very real. However, the premise is that the world is overheating (as the title alludes to) yet nearly all the characters in the movie were wearing such items as a long sleeved shirts, sweat shirts, long pants, a hooded sweat jacket, and even a winter coat. They wore this attire for nearly the entire movie..even though the world is baking. If you want the audience to believe the world is heating up at a rapid clip..don't you think the characters should dress for extreme heat? I couldn't take the movie seriously because of the wardrobes. It made me giggle through the whole thing. Just my two cents. :)

Sean Kaye Once again, Vancouver -- The king of schlocky Canadian 'made for TV' movies has done it again. Yet another movie made as a tax write-off for wealthy or semi-wealthy investors. Gotta hide that money somewhere, eh fat cats? As for the movie; It was made to be bad and to lose money (for tax loss purposes) and on that level I applaud it. It's certainly a terrible movie and I have to hand it to the producers -- they accomplished everything they set out to make; a terrible money-losing movie. Bravo! Well done!---------------------------------The British Columbia Production Services Tax Credit (PSTC) encourages film, television and animation production in BC and is available to either international or Canadian productions produced in British Columbia.There are four components:The basic PSTC tax credit is 33% of qualified BC labour expenditures incurred after February 28, 2010.The REGIONAL tax credit is 6% of qualified BC labour expenditures of the corporation pro-rated by the number of days of principal photography in BC outside of the designated Vancouver area to the total days of principal photography in BC. The new DISTANT Location tax credit is 6% and is added to the regional tax credit for principal photography done outside of the Lower Mainland Region, north of Whistler and east of Hope, excluding the Capital Regional District. DIGITAL ANIMATION or VISUAL EFFECTS tax credit is 17.5% of BC labour expenditures directly attributable to digital animation or visual effects activities.

FlashCallahan Despite scientist Nathan's warnings, his boss continues an experiment meant as publicity for his satellite firm: exploding an asteroid. Instead it splits, and the major piece, the size of Iceland, changes course to earth. It is deflected but so close that it shift our course closer to the sun, causing rapid extreme heating, hopefully only mid-term. Nathan warns his sister, TV journalist Carly, and she her lover, police detective Tom. He brings his unruly daughter Kim, her ex-con lover C.J. and her mother, nurse Bonnie, when Nathan offers a flight to a friend's Arctic weather station. Tom takes charge of a dangerous trip to the airport, as everywhere on earth things catch fire and people fight for water, transport and sheer looting.....fantastically bad from the beginning, Van Dien shows his shirt no mercy as he spends the duration of the film sweating and looking a little concerned in some scenes. it's highly unbelievable that this guy could have a family, let alone trying to bring it together, but he does.as the heat rises, we see the group walk very slowly, meeting people and getting into scrapes. This carries on for the whole film.Van Diens daughter has to be as unlucky as Kim Bauer, because she has a gun to her head a couple of times, nearly gets blown up, and faints at the badness of it all.if this had an amazing budget, big stars (no offence to the cast here) and Bay at the helm, this could have been a fun popcorn blockbuster.Instead we get one dimensional villains, extras who appear to be asleep on the floor, and a literal mad scientist.But it's awful in a laughable sort of way.

Crap_Connoisseur "Meltdown" is a disaster (tele)movie about really hot weather starring Casper Van Dien. That one sentence is probably enough to make most people run for cover but as a disaster movie devotee and long suffering fan of Mr Van Dien, I found "Meltdown" pretty irresistible.You could drive a semi-trailer through the holes in the film's plot. In short, scientists fire a nuclear weapon into a meteor with the intention of developing a meteor defence program. However, instead of fragmenting, a large chunk of the rock heads towards earth only to be deflected. Unfortunately, the near miss manages to push the earth out of orbit, dragging it towards the sun and resulting in really hot weather.Casper plays Tom, a police officer, who attempts to save his family and new girlfriend from the heatwave and protect them from the looters who have taken over the city. This synopsis actually makes the film sound more interesting than it is. In reality, most of the film involves sweaty people walking around looking for water. Strangely, it never enters anyone's head to turn on a tap or purchase a beverage from a vending machine. Things get a bit more exciting towards the end of the film when rogue policemen capture the brother of Tom's new girlfriend. This at least gives Casper the opportunity to wrap a shirt around his head and shoot a gun.The extent to which you will enjoy "Meltdown" surely depends on your view of Van Dien. Personally, I find something deeply hypnotic about Casper's cheesy, square jawed persona and his determination to appear in trashy, straight-to-TV action thrillers. He reminds me of Zoolander with guns. Despite my appreciation for Casper's body of telemovie work, I would still like to see him make the occasional film that actually gains a cinematic release.In addition to Casper's stunning acting performance, further "Meltdown" highlights include a couple of exploding cars, a bad CGI meteor and some hilariously improbable science. The other actors in the film are all competent, with Venus Terzo a standout as Tom's first love, Bonnie. Amanda Crew also makes an impression as Tom's daughter.