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Doomwatch: Winter Angel (1999)
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Movie Review by The Gravedigger
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05.09.10
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Professor Neil Tannahill (Trevor Eve) and wife Meg (Amanda Ooms of THE FORSYTH SAGA) are all set to relocate to Boston because of his new job at MIT. He's a physicist.
This gets interrupted when he's contacted by his old friend, Spencer Quist, who had run the scientific watchdog group Doomwatch (Quist was also in that original series from the early 70's). He suspects that a secluded power plant has a secret, which involves importing soviet radioactive material. One night there is an accident and a bunch of workers are fatally irradiated. This is all caught on videotape by a guy who is chased, caught, and then killed, but not before he leaves the tape for Quist. There's also a computer wiz named Hugo Cox who is able to tap into virtually any computer or newsfeed on the planet. What Professor Tannahill discovers is that the power company has managed to create a black hole the size of a pinhead and they need the nuclear waste to feed it. But the containment apparatus they built isn't stable and he has to figure out a way to fix it or it could be the end of Earth and the entire Solar system. Black holes are forever.
This followup to the 70's series and the Hammer film (Doomwatch) takes a while to get going but once it does it's an interesting and plausible sci-fi tale.
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Rating: nan out of 10.0 - 0 votes cast total
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