Review of The Thaw (2009) by Katharine B — 17 May 2013

Overtly propagandist, this terrible movie might have a decent message, but has too much trouble seeing night from day through its own hubris to get that across. The story is insipid, lending very little to the message in terms of entertainment value or scientific plausibility.

Not that it means much except in evincing sloppy methodology, but the helicopter scenes were so obviously fake that they destroyed the fourth wall outright. The plot suffers from sloppiness too, taking a long time to start up and going nowhere meaningful.

The entire film drags on like a sugar addict slowly adding little increments of a terrible artificial sweetener to his coffee. It ought to be said as a final thought that environmental propaganda doesn't have to stink to high heaven like a pile of burning inconsistencies - Day After Tomorrow was decent, well thought-out, and had plenty of drama and story while in contrast, this is pure dreck.