Ba'al - The Legacy of the Storm God
| Movie | |
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| German title | Ba'al - The Legacy of the Storm God |
| Original title | Ba'al: The Storm God |
| Country of production | United States , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paul Ziller |
| script | Andrew Black, Paul Ziller |
| production |
Breanne Hartley Kim Arnott |
| music | Pinar Toprak |
| camera | Mahlon Todd Williams |
| cut | Steve Schmidt |
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Ba'al: Legacy of the Storm God is a 2008 film . Paul Ziller was the director and screenwriter . The worldwide film release was on September 13, 2008.
action
Two masked and armed men break into the closely guarded part of a museum and steal ancient scrolls. On the run, one of the two is shot by a security guard. The criminal investigation reveals fingerprints of Dr. Lee Helm to days, a museum employee.
Helm is on his way to see his teacher Stanford. The archaeologist is looking for the four amulets of the storm god Ba'al, which were buried by Sumerian priests in various places around the world in order to tame his power in the world. Stanford hopes that the amulets will cure his cancer. When the excavations uncover a Sumerian tablet, Stanford is certain that one of the amulets must be nearby. But when they find it and free it from the ice, a huge storm develops over the site. As soon as Stanford holds the amulet in his hand, it begins to glow green, and a force throws it to the ground. Meanwhile the storm is approaching and it is only with difficulty that Stanford, Carol and Dr. Bring your helmet to safety.
In the country's severe weather center, one discovers the storm, which reaches unusual heights. This electromagnetic storm front is developing at a rapid pace and the use of weather drones is being considered to investigate this phenomenon. But no sooner have six drones entered the storm area than their trail is lost. The connection to the occupied control aircraft is also broken. Since you can't get any further in the headquarters alone, you ask Dr. Martha Pena, an independent meteorological expert, for help. She suspects that a catastrophe of enormous proportions is developing here.
With the help of the first amulet, Stanford can find the second. An inscription refers to the area on the Black Sea. Helm is horrified to discover that Stanford stole the scrolls from the museum. Carol discovers that the amulet can be used as a deciphering aid for the ancient scrolls, and so they get straight to the second amulet. According to the inscription, Stanford has to hold it up, and when he does, this amulet also begins to glow. A lightning bolt rises to the sky and a kind of cloud spirit appears that absorbs this lightning bolt.
The Foundation of Archeology is eagerly awaiting the return of Stanford. Dr. Meanwhile, Helm is arrested. He tries to explain to the police that Stanford arranged everything so that suspicion would fall on him. Carol also realizes that Stanford only used her to decipher the code. She knows about an ancient mythology about opening a gate between our world and the next, and that Stanford may be about to open that gate. So Helm and Carol are sure that they absolutely have to stop Stanford. Fortunately, they can convince Agent Risko, and Helm is a free man again.
The meteorologists discover that the newly created storm area seems to connect with the first. Dr. Pene is convinced that the storm front is fed by an unknown energy source. If you interrupt this, you can do something about the approaching catastrophe. With the help of Helm and Carol, she discovers points of convergence and can thus predict where the next storm will occur. Agent Risko, Helm and Carol go there, but they are too late. Stanfort has already uncovered the third amulet and triggered the next storm. The meteorologists are now trying to fight the storm with the help of a dehydration rocket. This is initially successful, but it is still building up again. The last solution is to launch a nuclear missile, which is supposed to destroy the connection between the energy source and the storm.
Helm and Carol find the solution to hiding the fourth amulet through their gift of combination. The hiding place is in the museum, where the scrolls were already stored. They find the amulet, but are caught by Stanford. He demands the metal piece by force of arms. After thousands of years, he activated the museum's Ba'al statue using the four amulets. He hopes for a gift that will heal him or even make him ruler himself. But that fails and he dies - pierced by a spear of the statue. Helm and Carol try to place the amulets from the Ba'al statue in the statue of his adversary El. This succeeds and an energy beam rises into the sky. At the same time, the rocket's explosive device detonates in the atmosphere, cutting off the flow of energy to the storm, which then dissolves completely.
criticism
At Kino.de the critics write “Two stories run in parallel in this low-budget catastrophe film by the busy Sci-Fi channel, when a war of scientists [...] takes its lead, sobering for such conditions, on exotic excavation sites Incompetent soldiers on the home front and arrogant weathermen roll stones in the way of the unadjusted viewer. In between, Big Ben and Brooklyn Bridge fall victim to the storm god and mediocre CGI effects. For SF viewers. "
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm judge these films as a "Hanebueche story, dumb characters. [Conclusion:] Low-budget disaster blown with the wind "
"Slowly developing action film with science fiction elements that conjures up the plot rather than visualizes it."
Web links
- Ba'al - The legacy of the storm god in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film review on kino.de, accessed on February 22, 2014.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 22, 2014.
- ↑ Ba'al - The Legacy of the Storm God. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .