Nerds That Geek Movie Review: '100 Degrees Below Zero'

Written by Scott Edwards

When facing any sort of threat, finding and taking care of your family should always be first on your list. Making sure that your family members are all right and safe is something that we all do when hearing about a disaster that happens in their area. Thank goodness for social media and cell phones as they have made this much easier over the years, but nothing replaces seeing that they are okay in person.

As a volcano erupts in Iceland, the local geologists are far from baffled, for they have planned for this event. Watching as the earthquakes move down the European side of the tectonic plates, they know that there is an event that will change the landscape forever. Watching as a chain of eruptions take place in Europe, ash starts to move its way higher and higher into the atmosphere causing sunlight to be blocked out and causing the temperature to decline drastically. 

Steve Foster and his new wife Lacey are on their way to London to visit Steve’s children from his first marriage. Steve is a retired Air Force pilot and always comfortable behind the controls of anything that flies and that is what Lacey loves about him. As the European eruptions have taken place while the couple are in the air, they have no idea what has just happened and are directed to set down in London until the ash cloud dissipates. Calling in and talking to an old war buddy, Steve finds out that this threat is much bigger than he has been led to believe and will cause an ice age of sorts to take over the continent. Needing to find a way to get to his kids and make sure that they will survive the oncoming onslaught of cold weather, Steve and his wife decide to keep moving east, but are met with plenty of opposition from the storm ahead of them.

Steve’s kids, Ryan and Taryn are attending college in Paris and although Taryn does not seem too excited about it, Ryan has been having the time of his life. With their father coming in, Ryan is excited to meet his new mother in law, but Taryn does not want to welcome the new woman into her life just yet as her father remarried so suddenly. As the weather starts to change in their area, the two have formed a plan with their father on where to meet. Having picked the Eiffel Tower as their point of extraction, the two have to find a way around the crumbling landscape as earthquakes start to ravage the nation. 

This is another one of those disaster movies that leaves you wondering what you would do if put in the same situation that the characters must deal with. How determined would you be to get your family out of trouble if it meant your impending doom? It is just fun to see how both groups, husband and wife along with brother and sister have to join forces to stay alive as a storm that has never been witnessed by anyone alive will change the landscape of a region. Happy Viewing.

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