Excellent but underrated film

Absolutely brilliant

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

The film takes place about a century in the future. A company (Oxzilla?) has created a tri-fission reactor (whatever that is) that works on converting radioactive waste into atomic energy to power the world (nuclear physics says not possible, you really need a neutron source, but I just went with it). The opening talks about a site where they had three atomic accidents, however there were tri-fisson reactors around the world on waste sites. So I am guessing this was the accident site.Abbey Dixon (Sarah Habel) a young engineer without much field experience gets the short straw when a remote location loses contact and has to go out there wearing a form fitting personal "radiation" suit. Suits are for contamination and not radiation, but I let that one go as Hollywood and the general public don't know the difference and interchange the words, liking "radiation" to describe everything radioactive. When she arrives she is greeted by a half-wit with a bad cough named Robinson (Dominic Monaghan). For the next hour or so we watch her run tests on the facility as Robinson watches her. She is attempting to locate Dr. Zek not knowing the type of character Tom Sizemore plays in films.Eventually the drama plays out.First off if an area gets contaminated, they pave over it and don't let it breath to the atmosphere. If you drive into the parking lot of a nuclear facility that has eight inches deep of paving, turn around. Another issue is that Abbey claimed the Becquerel level had increased. Becquerel is a unit for contamination. I doubt that is what she meant. It sounds scientific, but Gray or Sievert would have been the correct phrases. It she had said, "The Gray level has increased" that would not have worked. Sievert or milliSievert would have been the best. If you have radiation sickness, you don't walk around like you have a sore throat. If you are not hurling chunks or sitting on the bowl, you will have no energy to be active.PLOT SPOILER CLUES: The film was shot In Washington State, downwind of Hanford. In 1949 Hanford did a "Green Run" experiment where they released a few dozen curies of I-131. They studied the plume and the animals within the plume. The public found out in the 1980's. The sites for government nuclear facilities and bomb test sites are located, according to government documents, where the down winders are a "limited use" (expendable) segment of the population. I am sure the anti-nuclear crowd had the Green Run in mind when they made this film which unfortunately demonstrated they knew nothing about reactors or radiation. But hey, it is the thought that counts.Guide: No swearing or sex. Dominic Monaghan looks at Sarah Habel in the shower. We get to see all of him and the back of her head.

She was a engineer, doctor, welder,communications specialist, radiation specialist, and make a mean pot pie out off road kill and hooch,MMA fighter, all while wearing a sexy radiation(motorcycle gear) suit. Somehow she was able to avoid radiation even with he huge gap under her biker's helmet. As one poster said that it was a bit sexist, I'll have to agree. She's in her sexy motorcycle gear walking around at a contamination site while Zek had a real contamination suit. She reminded me of Denise Richards in The World is Not Enough as a Nuclear Physicists.

The people that agree with vicstevinson saying the film was sexist was low, the main problem with anything being made is lack of creativity and spending the time in coming up with something original as well as making it look better than this - in the opening part of the film, you can see a gap on the helmet of Abby (Sarah Habel), give me a break, that is just lazy, she is wearing this helmet for what reason, should be for oxygen - I thought, what other reason would there be ? I remember in working on Mr. Belvedere, on how lazy the writer's were, they would just copy other people's ideas for the show, that is what Hollywood always does, besides not being more detailed in having the surroundings looking convincing, these films are made by lazy people who unfortunately make way too much money for what they do, more like lack of what they should do, be very detailed and care more about making quality film's and television programs, earn your money, instead of cheating and being lazy, sorry but watching these film's is just frustrating, just like Ghost in the Shell, another great example of lazy - way over paid people. They seem to sit around a table and talk about how much money they can get for empty stuff, one dimensional garbage. The independent film's at least try and are not Hollywood crap driven, for the most part I believe.

While some of the detail is beautifully achieved -- computers for one -- this film remains an homage to science fiction's "dude culture" of sexy women (not always convincingly capable) and male slobs like Sizemore.It's tiring and boring to see women treated this way, and it's universal. Just watched a similar treatment for a TV pilot.So disappointing and incredibly insulting to women astronauts and scientists.