LA APOCALYPSE is a particularly inane addition to the end-of-the-world disaster movie sub-genre as seen on the likes of the SyFy Channel. It features a cookie-cutter predicament for our heroes to sort out, some truly lousy CGI action sequences, laughable science, and general poor writing all round. The characters have no delineation whatsoever, the plotting is so obscure as to be headache-inducing, and the running time chiefly consists of various characters running around and barking orders at each other. It's a truly lousy view.
LA Apocalypse
2015
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
LA Apocalypse
2015
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Plot summary
For 5 billion years the Earth's core has operated like a giant, nuclear reactor. Now it's overheated, melting down like a bomb that's about to explode. The earth is being ripped apart at the seams and beneath LA, pressure is building. After a mass evacuation, Calvin Crawford is one of few left, desperately searching for his fiancée, Ashley Pace, who unbeknownst to him, has been kidnapped and is being held hostage. With LA becoming more unstable by the minute, Calvin, must find a way to save Ashley and get them both to safety before the city is completely annihilated.
Uploaded by: OTTO
Director
Top cast
Christopher Judge as Lieutenant Grisham
Eric Allan Kramer as Sergeant Wade
Gina Holden as Ashley Wilkins
Raymond J. Barry as Major Gray
Tech specs
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU 696.00 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Movie Reviews
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Even by the genre's low standards, this is bad
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WAY Better Then Expected!
For a "B" Movie, this is one of the best I've ever seen!! While there were small plot and story holes, and cheaper special effects (compared to major motion pictures) I was amazed at how good the movie was. If you are like me and can suspend disbelief and get into a movie without nitpicking it to death, you should give this one a try...The story took unexpected turns which kept my interest and the acting, for the most part, was, like the rest of the movie, surprisingly well done. Id say give it 30 minutes...and THEN make up your mind on whether to continue watching. I did. And I was pleasantly surprised.
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Not bad at all
This film exceeded expectations based on the average ratings. At least there is very little padding scenes and the main story and action starts pretty much right away which makes a nice change for these budget films.
And whilst the CGI effects are pretty standard for these budget films these days they still put quite some efforts into showing as much CGI destruction scenes as you would expect in any major disaster film. Which for a budget film was great to see instead of the CGI action light scenes and a more claustrophobic feel you can find in cheap disaster film. You at least get a scale of size with this films.
CGI, whilst quite regular and fairly big scale, they could have tried using more finer particle effects in falling buildings and debris than they did. As it would have given a far great element to detail and realism to many destruction scenes. As I often felt it was almost like watching partially SD effects on HD footage such was the lack of fine detail in some of the CGI effects.
Acting was fairly good, if standard, and the overall story passable. Overall an acceptable TV disaster film that's worth a good 5/10 for me.