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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.

Well I watched the whole thing which is quite surprising because it was a lazy Sunday afternoon and I'd had all of an hour sleep the night before. I thought I'd fall asleep pretty quick which is what usually happens when I watch a movie with the intention of actually watching it while I'm tired but nope, I think this moving was so ordinary it kept me awake. The acting was poor at best, and the cold zone sure did spread south rather quickly. But at least the young bloke got a quick kiss from the girl he saved before they took off and saved them selves. I can't see a sequel coming for this one unless people want to see a refuelling episode.

As a Canadian the Hollywood idea of cold is so stupid. People with their coat opened, no gloves, mittens, no snow pants, or even a scarf over their face. And what about their feet?

Plus the cold weather can brake the windows !!!

This film is literally awful. It follows exactly the subplot of Day after tomorrow. It is not just that the plot follows day after tomorrow, a large amount of the dialogue does as well! Secondly be careful of reviews that have a first name and then a dash "-" and numbers. These are "IMDb pro" accounts where the creation date is scrambled (hence a reviewer whose entire activity is a review of this film yet an account creation date of 8 months ago) and ability to up vote their own reviews multiple times.

The shill reviews amount to a rip-off and people noting them are one of the reasons why IMDb removed its comments section when people started noticing these patterns.

I wish there was a zero. This has to be the worst film I have ever watched. The packaging looks good enough to buy. Ops...I did. The plot was written buy a 3 year old and the best bit of acting was the dead blackbird. In the end I watched it just to pick faults of which there are many. Please don't be fooled by the first 3 minutes, it goes down hill quicker than the Titanic.

Yes, I wanted to save as many as I can ... from watching this absolute stinker. So if you've seen "The Day After Tomorrow" you know the general deal. There's really only one difference between the two movies - Tomorrow doesn't want to make you gouge your eyes out with an ice pick.

Having a science background, I am mildly entertained when concepts follow the general laws of physics. Luckily I didn't have to worry here because there was no science to evaluate as nothing made sense. Again and again the laws were broken with clear abandonment. It might have been helpful to have this improve the story, develop a character or idea, but alas no

I don't want to see any of the actors again as none of them performed with any degree of conviction, except maybe the paycheck. I rather pity any of the cast that took shares in the movie in lieu of payment - unlikely they'd have got bus fare.

To make it fair, I gave 1 star for committing this to celluloid, probably against the advice of family, friends and anyone who actually read the script before committing to star in it, and another star for the cast surviving to the end of the movie with straight faces. I've seen better acting in commercials.

Decent movie. I know its basically the same as The Day After Tomorrow but its really just a movie to watch to keep you entertained if you have been bored alot, plus, i really love disaster movies.

This is the worst movie ever, bad enough for me to leave a review. I know there are still lots of hardwork and acting in it and as always I appreciated that in every movie. and I'm not even expecting great CGI or visual fx... the real problem is there are many scenes doesn't make sense ..in another word .. stupid. Does the script and plot written by a teenage kid or what. And the main actor doesn't have the charm.. he act ok but just doesn't feel good enough. the ending is one of the ridiculous I ever heard. i bet the actors and crew probably feel ashame and frustrated to be in this movie. i hope this is their first movie and will make a better one next time. if you have time to kill and got nothing to do. pls look for another movie... not even worth to kill your time.

Bad...Painfully bad! I'd never seen under-acting and over-acting all at the same time till this movie. That's not even addressing the terrible script and a plot that is so ridiculous that you continue watching out of sheer curiosity to verify for your own sanity that: yes, indeed someone actually wrote and acted in and worse, financed a movie that tests the absolute limits of human boredom. Yes it actually happened! You begin to wish you were in the cold zone so your agony would end because you just can't bring yourself to turn it off cause you still need to know how much worse the movie gets. And the worst part for the viewer is that you can't UN-watch it.

My bad review of this film has probably done it more favors than a hundred great reviews. Now, YOU'LL probably watch it out of sheer curiosity...and the cycle continues.

Bad, Bad, Bad,....the writers and director actually got paid for this mistake? No spoilers in this review, it could not get any worse.

Competent and well executed film within the genre, but that does not bring anything new.

I recommend it only to those who really like the genre of natural disasters.

This was SO bad !!!! Good actors act as if they are in the real situation!! So so so bad !! Maybe do your jackets up & put your hoods on could possibly reflect you are cold !!

One of the most cliché packed movies ever. If you want a good laugh, and a catalogue of almost all of the lamest clichés ever, then give this a check out. The best character is hands down the "mean, old drunked" and zooms about down on a mobility scooter, bumping into people.

This wasn't a bad story. Could have used some better dialogue but it wasn't terrible. I kept being distracted by the mom looking like Catherine O'Hara. :)

To those folks insisting on comparing this to Day After Tomorrow...whatever. Not even the same story. Yes both involved freezing temps and people running for their lives but that's it. DAT involved a major polar shift of the entire planet. This involved enormous cyclonic activity repeatedly supercooling atmospheric air and sending pinwheels of airblasts down to the earth. At least this movie had a real ending. DAT ended with everything frozen and no epilogue.

Overall, it was an entertaining movie night for a December evening.

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.

Film shooting was in southern Alaska, probably in April, not December, as represented.

Snowflakes in the film are large and wet. Thats's warm weather snow. Drastic cold, which is supposedly threatening, lack fluid and is powdery.

No one is properly dressed for the hyper cold, being outside at -40, unprotected, freezes skin, yet these jerks are without gloves and face coverings, etc. As if it was 40 above.

Hey! This is life and death stuff! Hero! Heroine! Mother! Father! Boyfriend! Girlfriend, a coming of age film. A saving the world film.

The writers didn't know what the movie was supposed to be, so they punted...all the way. They should have their pen and paper revoked, permanently.

The writers and actors must have thought it was better to get face time on camera, rather than a sense of reality, on the most basic level of moviemaking.

The father, never having flown a helicopter, pilots through weather so rough, that even a professional pilot would struggle with. At 40 below, one has face covering, gloves, mittens, mukluks, parkas.

Amateurish & unbelievable on every level. Imagine having your tombstone carved with "cast member in "Cold Zone," for the world to see!