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Actors: Dean Cain, Bettina Zimmermann, Nigel Bennett, Joanna Clark, John Keogh, Hanns Zischler
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Post Impact |
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A meteor speeds toward Europe. Attempts to destroy it with a microwave beam from satellite Solstar 2, fail. Rush evacuations begin. The impact triggers climate change, burying Berlin under 20 meters of ice and snow. Among those stranded in the death zone are Dr. Gregor Starndorf, head of the institute that designed Solstar 2; his chief engineer, Klaus Hintze; and the wife and daughter of Captain Tom Parker, head of security at the American Embassy in Berlin.
Three years later, a light is detected in what was Berlin. The plane sent to investigate explodes. Blame goes to the unsuspected survival of Solstar 2 and whoever is controlling it. Solstar 2 was designed as a power source to lessen fossil fuel dependency; but due to military funding, it is also capable of causing massive destruction. The team sent to destroy it before it can strike again is led by arrogant Colonel Preston Waters - the man who separated Tom from his stranded family - and ex-SAS Sarah Henley; and includes Tom, and Dr. Starndorf's brilliant daughter, Anna.
They parachute their tank trucks into the snowy wasteland seconds before Solstar 2 decimates their plane. They lose crew as one tank is destroyed by an ice geiser, and the other explodes under fire from survivor patrols. They find Anna's father - blinded but alive - in a verdant greenhouse. About 600 live in the subway, dependent upon armed "distributors" for supplies. Starndorf has had Hintze reactivate Solstar 2 in the hope of creating an artificial warm front. He is alarmed that Hintze is exploiting its weapon capacity. Before he can go with the team to investigate, snipers arrive and kill him.
Waters, Sarah, Anna, and Tom confront the man at the controls - the embittered Hintze, raving about having been stranded and betrayed. He is powering up and aiming at Tangiers. Sarah shoots him. Waters dismisses Tom to look for his family. To Anna's shock, one of the two team members remaining with her kills the other, and demands she change the target to the Middle East, as a means of securing oil. Tom unexpectedly returns; but can he overpower this assailant in time for Anna to redirect the satellite to fulfill her father's dream? And where are Tom's wife and child?
--vjm, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 60%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Disaster, Natural/Nuclear
Yes
Kind of disaster:
- asteroid
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- govt employee
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- average (woman)
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Main Adversary
Identity:
- gang
Profession/status:
- terrorist
Has special powers?
Yes
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Germany
Misc setting
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- thousands
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- seeing breasts
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 8 (a significant amount)
Kind of violence:
- mission to destroy something
Unusual forms of death
- frozen
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding vehicles
- alien landscapes/cities
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