***Possible Spoilers*** omg, this was a total ripoff of the movie Day After Tomorrow. The premise was the same, a lot of the dialog was straight up plagiarized word for word, and even the special effects were sometimes lifted straight from the other movie. The overall effect was a low quality B movie that was predictable and disappointing. Take my advice, watch The Day After Tomorrow instead; this will only leave you disappointed and disgusted. As for the acting, it left a lot to be desired. The only recognizable face was the depressing ex- scientist, and he looked like it pained him to do this movie, but was under a contract he couldn't get out of. The plot holes were glaring, and totally made the movie unbelievable, like super freezing weather blowing thru, yet the ground was muddy and wet afterwards. Also, the satellite shots of the earth showed a massive storm, yet no one in the rest of the world noticed? yeah, right. The a/v was 10/10. The acting was deplorable, but adequate. Overall, though, the movie was 0 stars. Watching isn't worth the download time, or the effort of hitting play on the DVD/Netflix. Watch at your own peril, but don't say you weren't warned. ijs

Not much to say about this one, Family holiday gets ruined by mini ice age caused by manmade global warming that was predicted by scientist who has a petty party and hides in the woods. We have the standard family with an annoying teenager with Daddy issues that you get in most family holiday / disaster movies, you know the one, who you hope gets chopped quickly. The plot is so close to day after tomorrow that I'm surprised the makers haven't been in court yet. All good predictable end of the world stuff, improved by the use of locations with real snow, and some not too bad CGI. Shame they couldn't find an original script though.

Granted, I wasn't harboring any expectations to this 2017 disaster movie titled "Cold Zone" when I sat down to watch it in 2022. I stumbled upon the movie by sheer random chance, and of course opted to watch it on the account of it being a disaster movie that I hadn't already seen. And truth be told, I actually found the movie's cover to be interesting enough.

As it turned out then writers Hannah Davies and Ivan Hayden managed to put together an entertaining enough script and storyline for the movie. But don't go expecting a grand spectacular disaster movie, because that is not what "Cold Zone" is. It was a sort of cheesy and campy disaster movie, playing on every safe trope in the disaster movie genre. So at least you know what you are in for, in terms of predictability and entertainment.

Visually then "Cold Zone" was adequate. The special effects were luckily good enough. Sure, it wasn't special effects that bedazzled me or froze me solid in my seat, but they worked sufficiently enough to their purpose.

As for realism, forget about it. Lots of things made no logical sense in the movie, and also lots of geothermical and weather things made little sense or were just downright unrealistic. But hey, it is only a movie after all.

The acting in the movie was adequate. It was actually fair performances being put on here by the cast. And it was a cast ensemble of unfamiliar talents for me, which is actually something I enjoy in movies.

Entertaining enough for what it was, just don't expecting a spectacular disaster movie.

My rating of "Cold Zone" lands on a five out of ten stars.