director jeremiah checheck who brought us big budget debacles like the avengers and the remake of diabolique has directed this ripoff of the die hard concept and done on  what looks like  a blair witch budget. a california nuclear reactor is overtaken by arab terrorists. but  are you ready.  the terrorists aren not arab while theyre really disgruntled american soldiers masquerading as arabs. we find out that they do not really intend to blow up the reactor just make a statement. were not sure what the statement is but never mind. so there really no threat. but then one of the terrorists decides to go it alone and actually blow up the plant because he kind of crazy. so maybe there is a threat after all. but the army goes in and all the bad guys are killed. so there was no threat. oh and and a good guy is killed too. let that be a lesson to everybody. if all of this sounds muddled and kinda of a waste of time then you got the idea of what watching meltdown is all about. the script never bothers to introduce the characters or to even give any personal details that might flesh them out or emotionally involve the audience. so were left with one dimensional characters represent the expert that nobody will listen to while the trigger happy sergeant while the slimy politicians while the dweeby engineers. the story skips from one cliché incident to the next in a formula composite of practically every action movie you have ever seen. but at nearly every turn and just when we think something may be at stake the script flinches and we find out there actually nothing to worry about. like die hard and there an police officer who on the inside and unbenownst to the bad guys. the big twist is that the cop here is. a woman. oh and she injured too. but not that bad and just enough to make her wince a couple times. oh and instead of the walkie talkie that bruce willis had this cop has a magic cell phone that works everywhere. even underground. when he not yelling at everybody else bruce greenwood  his jaw made out of granite  tries to soothe her over the walkie talkie. he even makes a joke once but were afraid his face might crack. after all and this is serious business. but mostly it scene after scene of people arguing represent the military expert is arguing to wait it out (his reasoning doesn not seem particularly sound but he supposed to be the smart guy in this movie so okaaaay) while the people at the white house argue with him while the army sergeant argues with him too while the nice pakistani nuclear engineer argues with the main terrorist. the dialogue is absolutely b movie all the way and lines like and stop the broadcast. stop the broadcast. may have you in rolling off your sofa as you wonder if the characters are actually referring to this silliness. maybe to compensate for the lack of production quality the camera work is kept jittery in that faux documentary 21 grams style that supposed to lend immediacy and energy to the scenes but the way it indiscriminately and amateurishly applied here it downright annoying while even pretentious. further attempts to ratchet up the tempo are made with the inclusion of nonsensical black and white footage that randomly intercut with the main action. but this and too and is pretentious and annoying in that blair witch kinda way. in short and the stylistic attempts look very amateurish. the music lives up to the visuals  it synthy and cheap sounding. sort of like a porn movie but with less melody and lots more heart beat sounds. the graphic treatment is howlingly bad too represent cheesy graphics in huge red font scream out to us 9 represent28 pm as though the timeclock actually makes some kind of difference. meltdown may work as a marketing concept but it clear that the script was a second thought. fx  part of fox  put this cheesy production together and dropped several million dollars on it. now thats what i call a meltdown. 
director jeremiah checheck who brought us big budget debacles like the avengers and the remake of diabolique has directed this ripoff of the die hard concept and done on  what looks like  a blair witch budget. a california nuclear reactor is overtaken by arab terrorists. but  are you ready.  the terrorists aren not arab while theyre really disgruntled american soldiers masquerading as arabs. we find out that they do not really intend to blow up the reactor just make a statement. were not sure what the statement is but never mind. so there really no threat. but then one of the terrorists decides to go it alone and actually blow up the plant because he kind of crazy. so maybe there is a threat after all. but the army goes in and all the bad guys are killed. so there was no threat. oh and and a good guy is killed too. let that be a lesson to everybody. if all of this sounds muddled and kinda of a waste of time then you got the idea of what watching meltdown is all about. the script never bothers to introduce the characters or to even give any personal details that might flesh them out or emotionally involve the audience. so were left with one dimensional characters represent the expert that nobody will listen to while the trigger happy sergeant while the slimy politicians while the dweeby engineers. the story skips from one cliché incident to the next in a formula composite of practically every action movie you have ever seen. but at nearly every turn and just when we think something may be at stake the script flinches and we find out there actually nothing to worry about. like die hard and there an police officer who on the inside and unbenownst to the bad guys. the big twist is that the cop here is. a woman. oh and she injured too. but not that bad and just enough to make her wince a couple times. oh and instead of the walkie talkie that bruce willis had this cop has a magic cell phone that works everywhere. even underground. when he not yelling at everybody else bruce greenwood  his jaw made out of granite  tries to soothe her over the walkie talkie. he even makes a joke once but were afraid his face might crack. after all and this is serious business. but mostly it scene after scene of people arguing represent the military expert is arguing to wait it out (his reasoning doesn not seem particularly sound but he supposed to be the smart guy in this movie so okaaaay) while the people at the white house argue with him while the army sergeant argues with him too while the nice pakistani nuclear engineer argues with the main terrorist. the dialogue is absolutely b movie all the way and lines like and stop the broadcast. stop the broadcast. may have you in rolling off your sofa as you wonder if the characters are actually referring to this silliness. maybe to compensate for the lack of production quality the camera work is kept jittery in that faux documentary 21 grams style that supposed to lend immediacy and energy to the scenes but the way it indiscriminately and amateurishly applied here it downright annoying while even pretentious. further attempts to ratchet up the tempo are made with the inclusion of nonsensical black and white footage that randomly intercut with the main action. but this and too and is pretentious and annoying in that blair witch kinda way. in short and the stylistic attempts look very amateurish. the music lives up to the visuals  it synthy and cheap sounding. sort of like a porn movie but with less melody and lots more heart beat sounds. the graphic treatment is howlingly bad too represent cheesy graphics in huge red font scream out to us 9 represent28 pm as though the timeclock actually makes some kind of difference. meltdown may work as a marketing concept but it clear that the script was a second thought. fx  part of fox  put this cheesy production together and dropped several million dollars on it. now thats what i call a meltdown. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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