Polar storm
| Movie | |
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| German title | Polar Storm (The Polar Storm) |
| Original title | Polar storm |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 87:45 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Paul Ziller |
| script | Paul Ziller Jason Bourque |
| production | Kirk Shaw |
| music | Michael Richard Plowman |
| camera | Mahlon Todd Williams |
| cut | Gordon Williams |
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Polar Storm is a 2009 Canadian disaster film .
When a comet hits the earth's surface, the magnetic field of our planet shifts. As a result, violent, deadly electromagnetic pressure waves move across the earth's surface. In vain does the scientist Dr. Mayfield to convince the US President of the impending end of the world. Only when further deaths were to be mourned based on the magnetic pressure waves did the US government declare a state of national emergency and Dr. Mayfield implemented to save the earth. With the detonation of two atomic bombs dropped in a submarine below sea level, Mayfield succeeds in restoring the earth's magnetic balance.
action
The comet Copernicus is approaching threateningly close to the earth, but according to official authorities it should fly past our planet at a sufficiently safe distance. The astrophysicist Dr. However, James Mayfield does not rule out the comet's collision with Earth. Together with his colleague Peter, Mayfield goes to the calculated location of the closest approach of the comet to the earth in order to carry out scientific measurements for the weather authority. A great catastrophe ensues, a detached fragment of the comet hits the surface of the earth and wipes out the lives of 2.5 million people in the regions around Alaska, northern Canada and eastern Russia (the actual comet impact is not shown in the film). Dr. At the last second, Mayfield manages to find protection from the impact and the resulting pressure wave in an avalanche bunker, while Peter is killed.
While the US President speaks in a TV address that the impact will have no further consequences for the public, it seems that Dr. Mayfield the real catastrophe of mankind is just about to begin. According to his calculations, he notes that the earth's magnetic field has shifted. Using a sundial as an example , he has his theory conveyed to the public in a television broadcast and proves that the position of the sun has shifted by 10 degrees. This means that the earth's axis tilted 10 degrees and therefore no longer coincides with the magnetic poles. According to his theory, this can have serious consequences for the earth's magnetic field and ultimately lead to a “pole change”.
Subplot: Shane, the son of Dr. Mayfield, demolished an expensive telescope at school the night of the meteor strike during an argument with his classmate Kevin . The teacher Cynthia Mayfield (also Shane's stepmother ) punishes the two of them to pay for the damage. Kevin then challenges Shane to a car street race in the park to settle the damage in the competition. Even before Kevin's girlfriend Zoe (whom Shane has also had an eye on) allows the race, the road is torn open by an earthquake and Kevin is swept away in his vehicle, while Shane and Zoe are able to run away just in time.
Excitement in the advisory staff surrounding the US President after Dr. Mayfield disclosed the data classified as "secret" by the weather authority on the effects of the meteor impact to the public. Dr. Mayfield is therefore ordered to the military base. There he meets his father for the first time in five years, who works as a general as security advisor for the US president. In a video conference with the US President and his scientific advisor Dr. Elman receives Dr. Mayfield the opportunity to personally explain his doomsday theory, the dissolution of the protective earth's magnetic field triggered by the pole swap, to the President. However, Mayfield's statements are not taken as credible, and Mayfield is even asked not to make any further statements in public.
While Dr. Mayfield is in the car on the way back to his family, several electromagnetic pressure waves roll over large areas of the states, the residents of many cities are electrocuted . Dr. Mayfield himself only remains intact because he was not in the direct vicinity of an electrical source (a car with the engine running) during the “pressure wave”. Mayfield can contact the weather authorities from a telephone booth and learn from the scientist Pam that only those areas were affected by the electromagnetic pressure waves that are located in the vicinity of a "mini-pole".
Dr. Mayfield drives to his family and instructs them to leave the town of “Lindenville” immediately and to drive to “Little Brook”, the closest safe town outside of the “Minpol” area defined by Mayfield. Dr. Mayfield himself decides to go to the military base again to inform the US government of his new findings. The US President has since declared a national emergency and ordered Dr. Find Mayfield.
Contrary to the instructions of Dr. Mayfield, to leave Lindenville immediately, the authorities ordered the population to go to the Lindenville Community Center. Cynthia and Shane are also forced by the army to drive back to Lindenville when there is a roadblock. Once there, another electromagnetic pressure wave crosses the city. At the community center, Cynthia tries in vain to persuade the commandant to evacuate the residents in the community center from the city. Cynthia and Shane Mayfield therefore leave town "without permission" together with Zoe and her father Michael. As predicted, the next electromagnetic pressure wave will cause the death of those in the meetinghouse.
In Michael's car, the four of them drive towards Little Brook. When a pressure wave announces itself through corresponding noises in the car radio, they switch off the vehicle correctly. At that moment they are forced to get out by a person at gunpoint. When this person tries to drive away in the vehicle, the electromagnetic pressure wave causes the car thief to die quickly. With the next shock wave, Shane manages to recharge the previously drained car battery with the static charge captured by the radio antenna, so that the journey can continue. But without Michael, whose pacemaker could not withstand the electromagnetic pressure waves.
Dr. Mayfield can now convince the US President and his advisory staff of the impending end of the world. He proposes to restore the magnetic equilibrium by means of an atom bomb that has to be dropped . However, this plan fails because the aircraft itself gets caught in an electromagnetic pressure wave and crashes as a result.
The magnetic pressure waves prevent further use of the aircraft. Dr. Mayfield therefore proposes detonating two atomic bombs on the Mariana Trench at a depth of 11,000 meters below sea level. Since the on-board computers of all US submarines have failed, only an older Russian submarine is available to save the earth. Under the command of Captain Yolenkov, the Russian submarine plunges into the depths of the sea with father and son Mayfield on board. Dr. James Mayfield succeeds in calculating the explosive sequence required for a successful detonation, the two warheads are prepared for detonation and dropped. The hope of escaping the detonation wave in the submarine seems impossible for the time being. The submarine is catapulted out of the explosion circle by the uplift of the steam from an underground volcano, so that the boat is shaken vigorously, but can emerge undamaged.
The successful detonation of the atomic warheads enabled the earth's magnetic field to be returned to its original position.
background
- The film was not produced as a feature film, but only in 2008 as a television film and for DVD release (production company: Insight Film Studios Ltd.). In the United States, the film first aired on March 28, 2009. The German-language DVD was released on October 16, 2009.
- At the beginning of the film, a 2:38 minute film sequence is shown, as it were as a preview, which is repeated again after 48:40 according to the film sequence.
criticism
"Apocalypse nonsense with cheap tricks."
Web links
- Polar Storm in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Polar Storm in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Premiere dates on Internet Movie Database
- ↑ DVD information at www.sunfilm.de
- ^ Criticism on TV feature film. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 29, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
