If I were you, I'd watch this film as part of your education on the works of Dolph Lundgren and not to see an action film on a par with one of his best if not his best, Men of War.
The script is actually pretty good but the movie to me suffers from over-lighted production values ... I guess that's sort of to be expected if you're filming in Israel. Lundgren still looks fabulous and was only about 44 when he made this but the directing and editing perhaps account for why he seems to have sleep-walked through this. Maybe, if it can be believed of someone who probably works out all the time, he was actually a little creaky already as evidenced by his look of stiltedness when running for instance. Perhaps he just didn't put his heart into it whereas the main female characters seemed to have acted rings around him.
As I said, I think the plot was actually not too bad and kind of ached for a remake but with sets that are believable, not just *spoilers* a lake that is supposed to be a nearly insurmountable obstacle between a new island formed off the coast of California after an earthquake of unheard-of magnitude and the mainland, and an incline that is supposedly almost too steep for our heroes to climb out of even though the location looks like but a hole in a construction site, etc.
The script is actually pretty good but the movie to me suffers from over-lighted production values ... I guess that's sort of to be expected if you're filming in Israel. Lundgren still looks fabulous and was only about 44 when he made this but the directing and editing perhaps account for why he seems to have sleep-walked through this. Maybe, if it can be believed of someone who probably works out all the time, he was actually a little creaky already as evidenced by his look of stiltedness when running for instance. Perhaps he just didn't put his heart into it whereas the main female characters seemed to have acted rings around him.
As I said, I think the plot was actually not too bad and kind of ached for a remake but with sets that are believable, not just *spoilers* a lake that is supposed to be a nearly insurmountable obstacle between a new island formed off the coast of California after an earthquake of unheard-of magnitude and the mainland, and an incline that is supposedly almost too steep for our heroes to climb out of even though the location looks like but a hole in a construction site, etc.