What a virtually nothing of a movie. I didn't expect much going in, and I'm glad I did, because what a paper thin plot with lots of holes and issues.

First off, was 100% caught off-guard by his brother suffering from a mental disorder/aphasia. The trailer for the movie I saw, never mentioned anything about this, or even him having a brother, just that he had his own mechanic - so this just seemed like an oddly serious move for a movie that was going to be so otherwise empty.

The dialogue throughout the movie ranged from rough to awful; the scene introducing Laurence Fishburne's character was so bad I had to watch it twice because I couldn't believe how awful the lines and delivery were.

Amber Midthunder was okay, this is the first I had seen here in anything, however she reminded me of Aubrey Plaza playing April the entire time (both the look and her line delivery).

Despite how paper thin the plot was; mine collapsed, need truckers to do dangerous task hauling large pump/pipe to rescue miners, I'm still not entirely sure the reason why it was sabotaged by the people overseeing the mine in the first place. Perhaps I missed something, but I believe there was only 1 small part where they actually talked motivations, and it was to turn off the methane sensors to get around deadlines or something? And once the collapse happened they wanted to delay the rescue until everyone died? It seems like the insurance and liability payouts for 34 dead workers would be much more costly to the company than missing some deadline? (please if someone knows something I don't tell me - I cant make sense of the reasoning behind this).

At one point early on, I thought perhaps the "twist" was going to be that Amber's character and her brother were the ones behind the sabotage (I knew there was some sabotage going in because the trailer explicitly used the word) and it was going to have to do with First Nation's land vs Mining vs Government, they even shoehorned in that she was being bailed out of jail because of demonstrations and protests about Native land issues, and brought it up very briefly later when accusing her of the one sabotaging the truck, only to throw this angle out and completely discard it. This could have been at least a slightly more interested angle then the quarter baked (not even half baked) corporate cover-up thing.

Besides all that, there was some huge plot holes and the movie was rife with inconsistencies:

• Each truck had enough supplies for what was needed for the rescue. They sent 3 trucks in the event 1-2 didn't make it. With weight being an issue, why didn't they instead split 2 total loads (instead of 3) across the trucks using shorter 48 or 35 foot trailers compared to the typical 53 foot. They could have saved each truck thousands of pounds that way, and would have been far more likely to all make it.
• Second to that, they claimed they couldn't fly it in on a C130 (large cargo plane) because there's no runway to accommodate it, and they couldn't use Chinooks (large helicopters) because the load was too heavy. Why didn't they just send pipe up with 2-3 chinooks (or 1-2 multiple trips) and send the pump on its own in a truck, much less weight, thus less dangerous a mission?
• Once they got across the first two lakes, and it's known Tom Varnay is a bad guy, the trucks suddenly have tire/snow chains on them. They then proceed to have and not have the tire chains at various points from then on. Most notably once they get to the bridge scene, and suddenly the truck is spinning and slipping all over the place because the chains mysteriously disappeared again.

Edit: Somehow while I was trying to focus on things to nit pick, I overlooked one of the grossest parts of the movie, the 2002 ps2 CGI. It was jarring how bad it was, and it was everywhere. Even some scenes where they were just standing in front of a truck (the trucks btw, changed models randomly throughout the movie) they were CGI, and not filmed in front of a real, stationary truck.

I'm sure there's plenty more, I just can't focus on all the issues and problems at once.

Overall: 38/100This is just such a nothing movie, after they review this on the pod, I'm sure I'll completely forget about this the rest of my life.