One day earlier, seismic activity was reported in Russia prior to the collapsing of an entire ice shelf. On Christmas Eve, a military scientist in Fairbanks, Alaska takes notice of odd sub-surface activity occurring in the northern hemisphere. 'Ice Quake' tries to pass itself off as a Christmas movie. The only thing more absurd than what they try passing off in their movies is the fact that enough people actually watch and purchase these made-for-television.things to keep Syfy churning them out. 'Ice Quake' (and basically ever other Syfy original movie) expects you to just go with this nonsensical reality. Since it would cost too much to shoot in caves or build realistic ones on a soundstage, they simply write it into the script that all he has to do is detonate a small bomb at ground level and the tiny blast will be enough to destroy the glacial caves well below the surface. For example, in 'Ice Quake,' our hero must stop an underground river from flowing down a certain cave. My biggest beef isn't with the atrocious screenplay, bland and/or scenery-chomping actors, low-budget special effects, or sheer ridiculousness – no, what bothers me the most is the dumb stuff that they try getting away with. The one benefit to come from a cataclysmic end-of-the-world disaster like the one threatening the characters in 'Ice Quake' would be the extinction of Syfy Channel original movies.
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