Play trailer Action Sci-Fi. Director David Frazee. Andrew Rai Berzins Andrew Wreggitt. Top credits Director David Frazee. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Survival Code. Survival Code Official Trailer. Photos 4. Add image. Top cast Edit. Patrick Gallagher Taq as Taq. Christine Horne Svetlana as Svetlana. Bryan Dick Clive as Clive. Paulino Nunes Anton as Anton.
Josh Emerson Wasyl as Wasyl. Dewshane Williams Darion as Darion. Darren Shahlavi Sergei as Sergei. Don Lew Bataar as Bataar. Mayko Nguyen Hoshi as Hoshi. George Tchortov Alexi as Alexi.
Chad Cosgrave Beret 1 as Beret 1. Brett Sorensen Nicolai as Nicolai. David Frazee. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Borealis is a peek into the future, set in a globally warmed north. The year is and the ice caps have melted, enabling the discovery of the last oil and gas reserve on the planet are in the Canadian North.
Borealis is an international somewhat Canadian controlled settlement. Vic Ty Olsson is a customs agent and bar owner, the only past time. The bar is also the setting for prostitutes, of which we only know one Cristina Rosato.
The plot was all over the place and the end doesn't tie anything together, if it really needed to be tied together. There is a dead Norwegian archeologist tossed from a helicopter.
He has a six inch spike. The Russians are performing an archeological dig to show the Russians were here centuries earlier giving them a "national sovereignty claim. Allison Michelle Harrison is a naturalist for the Canadian government protecting endangered species, especially from the Russians or "Vodka retards" as she calls them.
There is also an American archeologist who never finds anything and I am not sure about his motive. The bar complex, made from old shipping containers has a "zip grab" an anti-gravity holding room. The Canadian military has a presence as does a representative from the League of Nations, which has apparently replaced the UN.
They are often referred to it as "the L-O-N" in the film. There is also a place for cage matches to the death. Vic is a former boxer, as was one of the Russians It also seems Vic was dead at one time and brought back to life, something he can do with a series of injections, which doesn't blend into the film too well.
And there is an old legend about a headless man, a theme which pops up from time to time I don't know. Oh yes, there is also a drug called "ghost meth" that made a Mongolian go berserk The setting feels like the Old West located on an alien planet.
Allison was the most colorful character, while the rest were shades of gray, perhaps a reflection of this world. Supplies are delivered by CG zeppelins which appear in every scene. When the film ended, I was scratching my head. Is that it? The DVD cover leads one to believe the film is some sort of Arctic battle in the snow, which is incorrect. That scene never happened. Okay as a low expectation sci-fi rental.
Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex. No nudity or brief nudity. I don't know the full story to this production, and IMDb doesn't pay me enough per review to do a forensic investigation of each title. Actually, they don't pay me anything per review, but who's counting? However, based on the provenance of the players Director mainly does TV work, the star Olsson mainly TV, etc etc I am going to go out on a limb and say this was intended as a pilot. Not bad. Not bad at all.
The Canuck Sci-Fi machine has produced some amazing stuff in the last few years Eureka remains my fave and there are some great ideas here with solid execution. Olsson is astonishing. Somewhere there is a casting director in Hollywood who will notice this and, in my view, great things lie ahead for him. Some uneven performances, notably Karan Oberoi as a Dudley Dooright sort of local cop. The script does not give Oberoi much to work with, the costume dept.
Nice to see Jon Slan, one of the godfathers of Canadian film, in the hopper. This "film" was nominated for a bunch of Canuck awards, and won a few, There are worse ways to spend a rainy afternoon. Negatives: 1. Lots of several second black screen scenes as if the editor didn't know how to fill empty space.
Speaking of editing, the scenes jumped so much I had nightmares afterwards with kangaroos in them. Really poor disjointed directing. A storyline that seemed to not have any direction - as if several writers collaborated with no consensus as to what the central theme should be.
Research on the critical subject matter of resource depletion. Not even remotely likely that in thirty years all of Earth's oil, gas and minerals are in one remote spot in Canada. Other research. Anti-gravity is available fun room in this remote Canadian bar!! I'm afraid they'll have to go a lot further into the Universe to find it - if even possible. Cheap CGI scene repeated nauseously over and over of a background burning of something in two localities with airships hauling the same thing in the same spot overhead.
The rest of the movie consisted of some shipping containers converted into living establishments. Other reviewers say this is a pilot for a TV series; of some sort.
Thus, the ending being only semi-conclusive. Do the Russians ever get the spikes returned as artifacts? Do the Norwegians get them; and prove the Arctic Territories are theirs; by virtue of first claim? We don't know. But the show opens the possibilities to this; and more adventures. Great movie; as a pilot to a series, or as a stand-alone piece. Saw this on Tubi, the free streaming site; which features many, many odds and ends of cinema. Some of the offerings are good, such as this pilot movie; and some are awful.
It's a good semi-who-dun-it type of movie right up to the ends when it just stops! Nothing more to say but a total waste of 2 hours. Whether the writers thought they were being clever or the director thought it was artsy, who knows but all of them fail miserably in any attempt at story. Or maybe we've just missed the sequel. Yeah, let's assume there's a sequel. But really, WFT! I recorded this movie and kept it for viewing on one of those days when my IQ would be mensurable only in negative numbers as I occasionally watch SyFy Channel movies or anything from The Asylum; junk food for the lazy mind, but this was from neither of the sources mentioned and was an excellent motion picture.
The cast was fine, the writing and its unusual premise were top notch. The characters were three dimensional and uniformly interesting. I cared for these people and for their believable near future situation. Perhaps I am having a stupid day but the plot contained surprises that followed from preceding scenes.
The violence was necessary to the plot and only the language is a bit much but that seems to be normal these day. If, as I suspect, this was a pilot film for an unrealized series it is a minor tragedy that it was not picked up. On its own it can stand proudly and is a credit to all involved. First off I would like to say that this shows title is totally inadequate for what we are offered I'll explain that in a few lines down. Of the estimated totals, more than half of the undiscovered oil resources are estimated to occur in just three geologic provinces - Arctic Alaska, the Amerasian Basin, and the East Greenland Rift Basins.
And this just happened to occur when it had been found that Alaska had a huge untapped oil reserve. I think 'Survival Code' is based upon this but its a touchy subject and, the Cold War literally is still bubbling under the snow and ice there.
Okay, back to the inadequate show title. Yes I am saying show because this was a Pilot episode being tried out the ending style makes my assumption point even stronger. It, for me at least, had very strong associations in the type of story and depiction of things as 'Dominion' and 'Killjoys'. Two of my favourite Sci-Fi series. I think it would have been a very enjoyable series and the actors and their characters were all perfect so important to have a connected balanced cast.
I watched this 'movie' on a Saturday evening when nothing else was on, and I was pleasantly surprised with the quality. The script is good, the characters develop well, the complexity of the story starts moves along at a nice pace without rushing This was clearly made, and made well, as either a TV series pilot or as the first in a TV movie series think Jesse Stone in a slightly sci-fi futuristic Canadian wilderness.
But not having that warning going in left me hugely disappointed at the total lack of a conclusion. Obviously this wasn't picked up for some reason, but then it makes no real sense to have released it in its incomplete format. Firstly, I am not a member of the crew, cast or production team before anyone attempts to try that angle. Just check out how many reviews I have done, and that perhaps might give you a clue.
This movie shocked me because I never even heard of it or had it on my radar and to be blunt, I chose to watch it just to pass a little time before going to watch a "blockbuster" movie.
The quality of all aspects of this movie are superb. I know that we have some talent in this country and this movie illustrates that.
As I watched it, I recognized rather early on that this was obviously a pilot for a series and the ending really locked that theory into place. Additionally, it left me with a desire to see the next episode, so I truly hope that this will get picked up and broadcast prime time. It seems that quite a few reviewers nailed this 'movie' for an incoherent story that leaves many questions up in the air. While the 'movie' aired last year, it was never meant as a standalone movie despite being released for TV as such.
It was supposed to be a pilot for a series. As such, its potential was never accomplished. Ty Olsson is a decent action hero and while the rest of the cast were relatively unknown, many of them had potential.
I found the episode to be intriguing and a bit nicer than the likes of 'Defiance' for example. What I love about it is that it doesn't pretend to more than it is. When talking Sci-Fi, I'm fairly fed-up with humanoid 'aliens' that are nothing more than exaggerations of human traits rather than really 'alien' and whose purpose is to make the human race look profound and complex.
Borealis felt, shortly, like a breath of fresh air. I still hope for a revival. I was surprised how you get into the story, not boring at all. I mean, there is the usual Russians are bad, Canadian soso and Americans the greatest. Especially at the end with "Rocky" in it.
But then, bum Nothing, film ends and ends really shi This would be a good start for a TV show. But at a stand alone movie, no well done. This was a pilot for a TV series and was O.
For a semi-scifi story, it's interesting enough and the acting is TV quality at best but it was better than a lot of the schlock that's being tossed our way these days.
If it ever gets picked up for a full run, it might catch on for the plain fact that there IS so much garbage out there but I'm not holding my breath waiting for it to become a reality EdWrite 8 May I watched this with low expectations but was pleasantly surprised when it re orientated my point of view. I know it's hard to accept that some good things come from Canada but there you go.
This story is about hard choices in a hard world where people are the cheapest commodity. Ty Olsson who has credits from his performance of Benny in Supernatural does not disappoint and the supporting cast do what they are supposed to do very well. If you watch it you will be touched by the humanity of it's direction and want to find out where do these lost individuals go from here. This is not a moral tale rather a tale of people muddling by in a gray and darker gray world but hoping to see the sun in a cold cold land.
Addendum Noted this comment from whokares "I too am at a loss with the reviews by the first 7 people and agree they must be associated to the movie somehow and have a stake in "gushing" over it. Still he agrees with what he's said so must be right.
This is a pilot that reminds me of Defiance which is another series that got the casting right. Yes as a film it stops short but as a pilot is does great. I just read all the reviews on IMDb and I have to say that from the people that gave it a 1 to the people that gave it a 10, I have to agree with most of what they say.
This is a movie with good points and bad points. I gave it a 6 because of the fact that all the components were OK. That is hard to explain so let me give you a couple of examples.
The acting was good - in some cases very good, but it was not great as the characters were not intended to be great. There were no real famous stars, but you felt you were watching very professional actors. The dialog was not exceptional, but it was very normal and normal is not bad. There are parts that are problems as said in the many of the reviews. My last example is that many people did not like the ending.
I, on the other hand, will also say I did not like the ending, however, as ending's go these days it seems that for every good ending there are 10 that are not good. So to have one that one would not classify at least in my mind a bad ending, then it is again, OK. The movie was entertaining and yes at times you thought it might be an old western and at times really good science fiction.
There are parts that if one would just watch that little bit, might end up thinking it was an adventure film, or a wilderness documentary, or a murder mystery, and yet, it was pretty much none of these to any real extent. I have never written a review like that as I have never seen a movie that fits into this category which I can not think of a name for right now.
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