2009 · action · sci-fi · tv-movie
Polar Storm
Directed by Paul Ziller1h 32m2009
When a piece of the massive comet "Copernicus" collides with the Earth, it knocks the planet off of its axis and unleashes a disaster never before witnessed. Dr. James Mayfield and his highly trained research team are the only ones who can re-align the axis. With his wife and teenage son in mortal danger, Dr. James Mayfield calls on his crack research team to help realign the planet's axis before the effects of the catastrophe are irreversible.
Our read: Polar Storm (2009) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · tv-movie entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
- epic-stakes
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