Too much of everything

Purely Joyful Movie!

Crappy film

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

I don't understand why so many reviews are so low. I am talking about the DVD release, so I don't know about the 4 hour version, but I find the movie entertaining. It is a made for TV movie, so it didn't have a big budget for anything. I thought the characters were believable and the acting was OK. Some of the dialog was a little wooden, but mostly the acting was good- not great, but good. There were lots of errors, but I was still able to suspend disbelief enough to enjoy it. I didn't notice any mountains in the Texas scenes. I agree that the kid was annoying, he was my least favorite character. I liked the first part of the movie before the asteroids hit better than the aftermath.

Someone reviewed this film as being "scientifically accurate", which I guess it is if the only science you know came from the Austin Powers trilogy. It's amazing to me that someone would think it was possible that they could blow up an asteroid with a "giant laser", and the pieces would all impact the exact same spot, despite the fact that the Earth ROTATES, and the explosion delayed the pieces somehow so that they fell to Earth days later than expected. As far as the acting, I wondered throughout the movie just how much Thorazine Annabelle Sciorra had ingested before sleepwalking through her scenes. Michael Biehn doesn't fare much better. He couldn't act as if his hair was wet when he just went through a massive wave that washed his truck off a bridge, yet left him and the guys in the bed of the truck dry and unscathed. This movie fails on every level. Everyone should sue the producers for those four hours back.

While I won't give this a 10 it was a TV mini-series and as those go this one was pretty good. Now I understand other reviewers reservations and exclamations on this mini but it's a guilty pleasure how else could I have seen it so many times. I may just buy it on DVD. For a television production every aspect is average special effects, acting, script but from that same perspective for a SCI-FI DISASTER THRILLER ITS GREAT. I have seen worse don't make me name them. You have to be your own judge. Michael Beihn & Anabella Sciorra are decent in the film most of the other actors you have seen on various TV series or TV movies, Bradford May who directed is competent and has a long history of directing for b movies and a multitude of TV shows.

The hilarious horror is how many scientific facts you can get wrong in a single movie.As a first time watch this movie is absolutely gut-wrenching because of the huge blunders in the plot and the scientific "facts". I really ought to have spared myself by shutting off the TV but I could not. I was in denial - refusing to believe that so many stupid errors that any high school student could have caught had actually made it into a movie.So I kept watching in horror. Then actually, later on I watched this movie again because I still refused to believe what my eyes had seen. When I watched it the second time i realized that my eyes and ears had not betrayed me and I was rolling on the floor laughing through most of the film.The stupidity in this movie, makes it the kind of movie that makes the rest of the world believe that Americans are ignorant, unintelligent and need to fix their public schools. Not that I believe this to bee true although the script-writer falls into this category.This is unquestionably the most stupid movie I have ever watched, and probably also the worst. So I give it a clear 1 out of 10 since I can't use negative numbers.Although I must admit that this movie has a potential for becoming a cult-movie in the horror or comedy genre.