The Asylum's latest mockbuster disaster movie follows a very familiar template of big stakes on a micro-budget, questionable performances, and lots of angsty dialogue interspersed with a small number of boldly-attempted FX shots. It wastes no time getting down to business as an unclear mix of global warming/fracking causes earthquakes, sink holes and fault lines that impact on a very small number of barely-introduced characters in a curiously under-populated scenario. The infrequent effects work is ambitious but variable in quality, but there is some attempt to create a sense of cinematic size, and there is an obvious mis-match between the sheer scale of the implied events and the tiny number of people involved on screen. All the technobabble dialogue is spat out at one monotonous level in order to create a sense of urgency but offers little engagement. At a couple of points, even the characters her acknowledge that their interpersonal relationships/drama are out of place in the situations presented. Continental Split promises much but fails to deliver sufficiently.
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