10.5 | 
| Directors: John J. Lafia, John Lafia
Actors: Kim Delaney, Beau Bridges
Studio: Lionsgate
Buy New: $9.98
Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 17649
Genre: Action
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 163 Minutes
ASIN: B000K1QLO8
Theatrical Release Date: May 1, 2004
Release Date: July 16, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Synopsis:
A 7.9 magnitude earthquake devastates Seattle, Washington; as a follow-up, the 8.4 aftershock wreaks even more havoc, even swallowing a moving train. With potentially more devastating aftershocks to come, Dr. Samantha Hill (Kim Delaney), an expert on hidden fault lines, and the president of the United States (Beau Bridges) must work together in a race against the clock to save millions of Americans in harm's way. |
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 10.5 March 17, 2008
Kelly (Littleton, Colorado)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
Anyone liking disaster movies will enjoy this one also. There are several elements that are not geologically correct, so if that will bother you, keep that in mind. I liked the cast. Kim Delaney and Beau Bridges were the best part of the movie!
Enjoyable Disaster FIlm February 20, 2005
Jim Jr (Buffalo, NY United States)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
Is this a great film - no, is it enjoyable - yes. The only thing this film asks is that the viewer has an enjoyable time. The producers are not trying to teach lessons about actual earthquakes - so what if a 10.5 is impossible on the Richter scale. What it indicates is that this was a horrible earthquake. So what if the survival camp was set up on a fault line. How many people actually know where fault lines are. There is supposed to be one in my general area in New York State, but none of the general public knows where it is.
Forget all the technical stuff and just sit back and enjoy the film. Laugh at the less than perfect effects and say to yourself that you could do better with your own camcorder in the back yard.
It is almost impossible to be serious about all the disaster films so simply have fun with this one.
THE SHAKES September 22, 2004
Michael Butts (Martinsburg, WV USA)
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
A made for tv movie, 10.5 attempts to be the mother of all earthquake films, and on some levels, it succeeds. Even though many of the effects are obviously models, one can't deny the impact of seeing the Golden Gate Bridge and the Seattle Needle tumble to the ground. At nearly three hours long, it does have its draggy moments, and some of the dialogue is cliche and dull. However, if you take it for what it is, it far surpasses the theatrical EARTHQUAKE and isn't bad. Kim Delaney, Ivan Sergei, and Yvette Jackson do well in their roles. A lot of unknowns surfeit the cast, and some do well, others are merely bodies. John Schneider and his daughter's scenes are poorly executed, but the reunion with mother governor is touching. Veterans Beau Bridges and Fred Ward lend their solid support. The earthquakes themselves are devastating in their destruction and the end is a little far-fetched, but hey it's a movie, and for what I expected, it satisfied me.
standard TV disaster drama, great special effects January 12, 2005
A. Burchfield (Conway, Missouri USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I remember at the time that real earthquake scientists didn't know whether to laugh or cry when this one came out. I thought it did OK for a TV disaster drama with the usual divorced parents and their difficulties (except in this case Mom is governor of the state), the brilliant young scientist with the radical, but correct, theory about the quakes- and the tough boss who doesn't believe at first but comes to his senses and ultimately saves the day.
I think the idea of deep faults has now been proven (the writers did say they did their research on the internet)but that idea of fusing them with nuclear blasts doesn't work for me, especially when done at depths of only a few hundred feet. I'd think that trying to fuse something like that would only make it worse either by REALLY cutting things loose or actually fusing and letting pressures build up even more.
What sap would put an evacuee camp on a faultline as they did in this movie?, that was actually the dumbest thing in the whole thing.
The FX were generally good although the quicksand that John Schneider got caught up in looked fake and the breakup of the Golden Gate Bridge did have a model look to it.
 Earthquakes hate our freedom ... they're freedom-haters!! March 23, 2005
A. Gyurisin (Wet, Wild, Wonderful Virginia)
6 out of 14 found this review helpful
What a tragic piece of television cinema this was. When I use the word tragic, I am not referencing the events that took place in the actual story of the movie, but the way that this film was made. It was hysterical, horrendous, and pathetic to think that there were actual paychecks handed out for this project. The graphics looked like something pre-schoolers were asked to create using glue, paper mache, and their left over Hot Wheels cars. Honestly, during one of the devastating scenes in this movie, I thought that I saw Hot Wheel on the bottom of one of the cars giving me a true indication of the low production value. Let me just say that if 10.5 was a sandwich, than it would be heavy on the cliches. You could not turn away from this film for a minute for fear that you were going to miss yet another cliched moment that has been used in nearly every disaster movie ever made. From the acting to the story and even the graphics, everything seemed like it had been done before, and 10.5 times better.
Our first image of this film sets the tone, but doesn't quite prepare us for the hilarity that will ensure further along in the movie. As we witness a biker successfully manage his way through destruction without even a scratch, our idea of reality is lost. Being able to outrun the Space Needle is sheer lunacy, and I will not go into the misleading way that they represented the Space Needle's structure (as most have in other reviews). I was laughing while this scene was happening questioning my choice of this film. Then, as if pulled from the pages of Sam Raimi's early work, we witness a train be completely eaten by the earthquake. Paper mache in full effect, it is as if it is chasing the train in this horror story styled moment that leaves so much to be desired. I couldn't tell if our characters were concerned about the tragedies that were befalling their state or the way that the director, John Lafia, represented the catastrophe with very cheap effects.
I cannot merely say that the graphics are what ruined this film, because everything was equal. The acting and the story were equally as poor giving us one of the largest (and lengthiest) television duds I have ever encountered. Beau Bridges as this sympathetic President was horrible. I could just see President Bush watching this movie at home and saying to himself, "The earthquakes hate our freedom ... they are freedom-haters". I really could hear these words when I watched this film. I mentioned Bridges, but the acting was bad on all counts. The family dynamics that ironically all of our characters are fighting was a HUGE cliche that only created more implausibility to our story. Oh, our lives are horrible, but a huge disaster like an earthquake could just bring everyone closer together ... let's watch and see! There was one point when I thought that John Schneider was going to break a window to a car, jump into via the window, and speed away talking about how "ain't no Boss Hog gonna git him". That would have been horrible, but at the same time semi-redeemable for this film.
Finally, I need to say to everyone that was involved in this film and for future natural disaster filmmakers, nuclear power does not solve all of our problems. I do not think we have harnessed the ability to stop Mother Nature from taking her course, and that no matter how hard we try, events will happen that will be catastrophic. We need to realize that this Earth was here long before nuclear power, long before humans, and will be long after we are gone. Sometimes I wish I could watch a film where the characters just allowed nature to take its course, and we could see the raw beauty of our world. I hated the fact that this earthquake was this evil train-eating beast that needed to be tamed. I felt that if earthquakes had a union, they would not be too pleased with their representation in this film. I was hoping for some good acting, some decent graphics, and at least a story that would spark the interest, but instead I ended up with three goose eggs.
Overall, if you can't tell already, I really disliked this film. There was no redeeming value to it at all. I remember friends and co-workers talking about this series when it was on television and how they couldn't wait to see the next part. All I can say to them is that they need to get outside more often. If 10.5 doesn't give you enough of a reason to throw your television out the window, then I don't know what will. Avoid this film like the plague, and I promise you that your overall level of life comfort will be much better. A definite Mr. Yuk sticker deserves to be placed on this film!
Grade: * out of *****
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