best movie i've ever seen.

Absolutely the worst movie.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

I'm actually bumping up my vote from a 3 to a 4 because I want to watch again so I can catalog all the bad science in this movie.I didn't come in from the beginning, but apparently the world of Solar Attack doesn't have a national space agency or a military that has dozens of satellites in orbit capable of monitoring Earth's atmosphere, so a concerned billionaire launches his own manned orbital vehicle to fulfill this mission, at a cost of $98 million.So while his astronaut guy is up there, a huge CME of a size and mass never before seen comes in and destroys his spacecraft without warning, even though some scientists were aware that the CME was coming. Apparently in this world they have no means of warning people to stay out of space when huge fireballs from the Sun are about to hit Earth.Oh, and for some reason this massive interplanetary fireball which appears to explode over an area the size of China remains unseen by the rest of the world, so only the poor dead astronaut knows what happened to his ship.This may be because in this world, the ozone layer acts as a shield against these CMEs, so they never affect the the surface of the Earth, they only rain fire and destruction on above the ozone layer.Now these CMEs keep heading toward the Earth, and one of them is headed straight for THE Russian military satellite. Yes, they only have one, and it's stationary somewhere in space! For those who don't know, Russia and the US have satellites up there by the hundreds. Most of them orbit the Earth every 90 to 120 minutes, but there are some that orbit in 24 hours. But there are a LOT of them in that 24 hour orbit, so if one satellite up there gets hit, a LOT of them will get hit.Phew! And that's just from watching for for about 30 minutes! And I still haven't mentioned the ridiculous idea that methane has increased to 3% of the atmosphere and can be ignited by CMEs.

Again earth is in severe danger and needs to be rescued - so far, so good. Again the rogue scientist is up against the establishment... well you know the rest. All this could make up a good movie, but as all normal, unlikely disasters have already been put on screen, a new event needed to occur... Put short: I would fire the scientific adviser (if there was any at all) - science fiction usually does not need to care much to obey existing science but when a story is being formed around known scientific processes, errors in logic hurt the educated viewers ears and eyes.Some of the flaws (taken from the German version, maybe some are just translation problems?): No methane has ever burned without oxygen - certainly not in 80 miles altitude with a partial oxygen pressure in the range of that of a normal (not a high) vacuum on earth... No ozone layer ever has saved earth from any coronal mass ejection, nor could it ever do that, nor does it have ANYTHING to do with the effects described in the movie (it "saves" earth from EM UV radiation, nothing else)... No magnetic (->Van Allen) belt is located below the altitude the MAV ever obtained... and so on. The list of obvious factual errors is endless, very disturbing for any sci-fi fan who has an interest in real science, rendering the "PhD" guys in the movie to clowns.

Yet another Sci-Fi Original and not that hard to watch. We're not talking award-winning or anything. Some of the computer-animated effects with the world coming to an end and all a bit more than par for the course. Far fetched story line, but then this is science fiction...not reality. The largest solar emissions ever are detected and are about to set the whole damn world on fire. To save mankind, hurried scientists are forced to take risky steps to counter the sun's shooting flares breaching the ozone layer.U.S. President Gordon(Louis Gossett, Jr.)calls upon a multi-millionaire maverick scientist Lucas Foster(Mark Dacascos)for help as the clock is running down and the world is facing assured Armageddon. Is this a pulse-pounding action thriller? Let's just say there is no urgent need for Xanax. It is kind of funny that Detroit looks a whole lot like Buffalo. And if Dacascos looks familiar; you have seen him in his role as the Chairman on Food TV's American Iron Chef. Gosset, Jr. the acclaimed actor he is could have phoned in his role. Also in the cast: Joanne Kelly, Conrad Coates, Damir Andrei and Sugith Varughese.

You probably won't be able to sit through this movie, I wasn't. It's good for a laugh though.This is the plot, from the part of the movie I was able to endure: There's basically a big solar flare, and it's somehow going to set the atmosphere on fire. The solution: We'll blow up the ocean! (I'm not making this up). The water thrown into the air will put out the burning atmosphere, or something.The president is portrayed as naive for thinking that blowing up the ocean is too rash and/or stupid a move. Really, I'm with him on this one.Also, meteorites are falling at cities for some reason. Fortunately shooting them with fighter-launched missiles makes them completely disappear.Maybe they shouldn't have tried to make a serious movie based on a Homestar Runner cartoon. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out this link: http://www.homestarrunner.com/cheatcommando.html