I wnated to like this movie. It has a really good premise, and Kevin Sorbo. The topic is really relevant today, as lithium is the prime ingredient needed for modern electric vehicle batteries. And there were some really tense and even a few frightening moments in the film. Plus Kevin Sorbo, who almost alone is a believable character who seems to have more than one dimension.
Alas, sometimes the whole is NOT the sum of its parts. The burning lithium is the worst actor of the whole movie, with flames spreading impossibly long distances and seeking out people to fry. It does so in a way that seems more comic than frightening and the one boat chase scene goes on interminably. I finally started to yell at the flame to just eat the poor people. (IT did) Characterizations are generally vapid and one dimensional and follow a lot of comfortable stereotypes and are thus not very believable or involving.
The burning lithium puffs out flames from a lake and unbelievably a soldier radios the general that a dam is going to give way because its too damn hot. Come on dude, water BOILS at 212 degrees and there is NO boiling or even steam. Are we expected to believe the concrete and steel gateways are going to melt as he said? And it goes on.... What should have been, and could have been a good movie is undermined by aspects that really should have been thought about for more than one beer.
They can't all be Citizen Kane, but with a little more effort this could have been a really decent movie. Missed it by "That" much as Maxwell Smart used to say.
Alas, sometimes the whole is NOT the sum of its parts. The burning lithium is the worst actor of the whole movie, with flames spreading impossibly long distances and seeking out people to fry. It does so in a way that seems more comic than frightening and the one boat chase scene goes on interminably. I finally started to yell at the flame to just eat the poor people. (IT did) Characterizations are generally vapid and one dimensional and follow a lot of comfortable stereotypes and are thus not very believable or involving.
The burning lithium puffs out flames from a lake and unbelievably a soldier radios the general that a dam is going to give way because its too damn hot. Come on dude, water BOILS at 212 degrees and there is NO boiling or even steam. Are we expected to believe the concrete and steel gateways are going to melt as he said? And it goes on.... What should have been, and could have been a good movie is undermined by aspects that really should have been thought about for more than one beer.
They can't all be Citizen Kane, but with a little more effort this could have been a really decent movie. Missed it by "That" much as Maxwell Smart used to say.