Insane carbon emissions making this time-waster

Rating: 1/10 (10 September 2009)

Far more offensive than Bruce Willis smoking tobacco and cursing his way through this actioner is the delirious expenditure of fossil fuels incurred by the irresponsible studio and the sociopathic director, Renny Harlin (false name). In his commentary (on the DVD), Harlin describes how the picture, on a tight schedule, became a mad search for snow all over the North American continent. Harlin flew his 300 crew, overpaid cast, and fleet of planes tens of thousands of miles in search of the white stuff. In Spokane, Wash., he arrived with hundreds of technicians, vehicles and airplanes, hired hundreds of extras, and woke up in the morning to find the snow had melted. The same thing happened elsewhere. Harlin describes how he could not believe the industrial agglomeration of "three miles" of trucks that assembled at a Denver location. This kind of carbon expenditure is an environmental crime in itself, forget the "terrorists" depicted in the movie. Harlin should be grounded from airplanes for the rest of his life, he is a single-handed enforcer of climate change and the destruction of the human environment.