Descent (2005) (TV)

Director:

Terry Cunningham

Writer:

Michael Konyves (writer)

Release Date:

21 May 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Go Deep!

Plot:

When the Ring of Fire starts heating up with an unprecedented amount of volcanic activity a team of scientists are gathered to prevent a global catastrophe.

Plot Keywords:

Ring Of Fire | Burned Alive | Trespassing | Nature Run Amok | Volcano

Cast

Luke Perry	...	Dr. Jake Rollins
Natalie Brown	...	Jen
Michael Dorn	...	General Fielding
Rick Roberts	...	Dr. Palmer Drake
Brandi Ward	...	Dr. Karen West (as Brandi Marie Ward)
Mimi Kuzyk	...	Marsha Crawford
Michael Teigen	...	Black
Mike Realba	...	Decker
Adam Frost	...	Captain Hayward
James Downing	...	Major McEwan
Jefferson Brown	...	Seth
Martin Roach	...	Man in Black
J.C. Kenny	...	News Reporter

MPAA:

Rated PG for disaster action, some sensuality and mild language.

Runtime:

Canada:90 min (Ontario)

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Canada:14A (Ontario) | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Dundas, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Premiere Bobine

Goofs:

Factual errors: In the final scene, Marsha Crawford says to the reporter, "It's time the public learn of the causes of these natural phenomenon." The plural of phenomenon is phenomena. Her character has a scientific background and should know this.

Quotes:

Dr. Jake Rollins: You guys ready to do your thing?
[i.e. place a 4000 megaton nuclear bomb]
Major McEwan: Tell us where you want it; we'll set the activation.
Dr. Jake Rollins: I've uploaded the Spartan coordinates. The placement has to be pretty precise.

Sux2B Descent

I just watched Descent. Gawds what an awful movie. Right off the bat they depict a lava geyser and a note says that it is miles below the the surface of Washington State. Folks, there are no geysers deep in the Earth like that. They thought it looked neat and in typical Hollywood style they threw it in. And then there is that well that spewed lava. He dropped a stone and I heard a splash. Steam would have erupted out of that well before a blast of lava could, if ever.

And the acting was pretty bad as well. Micheal Dorn has sunk to a new low in jobs.

What a dog of a movie. I bet the vote goes no higher than a 3.5

It didn't look like SciFi Channel spent too much other than to have pretty boy Perry as an attempt to draw.