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A renowned environmental advocate, Dr. David Kruipen (Val Kilmer) discovers the carcass of a woolly mammoth in a polar ice cap, while leading a team of four bright ecology students in a research mission at a remote Arctic station. The group uncovers information beyond their wildest dreams…and nightmares when a prehistoric parasite revives and searches for a new warm-blooded host. Now infected, the unsuspecting students are forced to choose between a quarantine that will result in their death or a global epidemic.
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I Build and own Haunted Houses, I watch ALOT of scary movies for ideas. This movie is at best ok, and should be a THRILLER not HORROR..... it starts out slow and never really picks up. in the first 15 min of the movie they reveal the whole plot, then take forever to tell the story. I felt for a while there that I was watching a global warming commercial and would not have been surprised if Val Kilmer's character was played by Al Gore!!! I rented it for $3.99 and kinda wished i had seen something else. If you are looking for a scary movie that will make your girl curl up to you and get cozy, this is not what you are looking for. On the other hand if you like movies that make you feel like crap for not driving an electric car or for eating red meat instead of Soy Burgers and not holding "Save the Whales" rallies... well you just go ahead and skip the rental and buy the movie!
Reasonably Good
Ultimately "Thaw" is an easily forgettable flick whose main idea has been done before in classics such as Carpenter's The Thing. But although far from an exceptional film it still has enough redeemable qualities to be enjoyed by your average sci-fi horror fan--it is not near great but pretty far from awful.
The female lead brings the movie down quite a bit - 2.75 stars
I did not have the highest hopes for The Thaw, but rented it as I like the "Man VS enemy/illness in isolation" genre (think Alien, The Thing, etc, but with a bug.) At first the movie was actually rather enjoyable. It would likely best appeal to people 15-25, so, being in the 25-35 age range, it was still something I'd enjoy. Unfortunately, the Lindsay Lohan wannabe in the female lead is TERRIBLE. While I'm sure its both the actress and the role written for her, her constant bossiness and ridiculous behavior RUINS the movie. No one in the situation would, in real life, ever have listened to this character (she should have been tied up and gagged within the first 10 minutes or so of the moive,) nor would people have taken her direction in real life, and it went above and beyond the suspension of disbelief to have to stomach her. She will grate on your ears. It was a bit like watching the Lindsay Lohan (she sounds just like a young Lohan but is probably 22,) in the Parent Trap, except what might be precotious for a child comes off unbelievable and annoying in a young adult.
Val Kilmer does appear in the movie briefly. Apparently he's still Jim Morrison (he acts just like he did in the movie The Doors,) just the 50 year old version. While not his most spectacular job at acting, he is believable as the jaded enviromental scientist.
Past these awful (Lohan-wannabe) and mediocre (Kilmer) performances, everyone else does a rather solid job, and the plot holds up. Not Oscar winner material, of course, but definitely for people who like bug movies, or "Man vs Antogonizer in isolation" movies. I was happy to see that while there is some gore, it isn't so gratuitious as to be too disgusting to watch. The bug in the movie is believable, and the SFX were pretty good.
A forgettable movie, but worth a rent if you like the bug-movie genre.
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