Meteor Storm [DVD] [2011]

Anyone remember Mystery Science Theatre 3000? This is exactly the kind of movie they used to watch.I sat down with my poorly 10 year old son (and science geek) in the hope of cheering him up with this terrible film - and it worked!Particular favourite moments included:1. The boy no-one wanted to take to the hospital - 4 times!2. The nurse who passes the above mentioned boy ON HER WAY TO THE HOSPITAL, and still refuses to give him a lift.3. The woman who forgot her car had two doors (with mortal consequences!)4. The guy riding around on his motorbike almost the entire time (we were disappointed he didn't do a Screaming At The Sky speech)5. The lady scientist who is given 2 minutes to figure out what's going on and then gets it wrong.6. The fantastic special effects!7. The journalist crew, particularly the guy who, in his Big Moment no-one checks to make sure he's dead (presumably because if he wasn't someone would have to take him to the hospital and, as established, that's not something they do here)8. MADE-UP SCIENCE!It's so, so bad. I mean, eye-wateringly terrible. But in that way that some films can be terrible and yet deeply entertaining at the same time. My son and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

The trailer looked like this could be a watchable disaster type movie. It’s terrible. In a few words, meteorites start hitting the San Francisco Bay Area. Woman scientist is persuaded to help the Disaster Management team to decide how to deal with the threat. The military, her estranged husband an ex Colonel, the President etc etc are involved in a race against time.Ex husband races around in civvy motorbike gear commandeering news vehicles to ‘follow me’. (Why?) Their teenage kids have their own ideas about helping an irrelevant friend. The city evacuates in minutes, but no idea where everyone went, or how....the list of non sequiturs is endless. The special effects are poor, dialogue and acting are wooden, the whole scenario is implausible, there no plot and no tension. It’s not even so bad it’s laughably funny. Waste of time.

Actors? No! It looks like just someone took some people from the street and trowed them in a Hollywood movie, script is poor and the visual effects really poor (annoyingly poor) too, anyone could do better I guess, I know, a low budget but the whole film is really bad and it feels dull and more like a love movie rather than a disaster adrenaline movie, time wasted, I watched it untiul the end so see how bad it can get, and it did get really bad!!!

I actually laughed at parts of this film. Especially the parts with the terrible CGI, most especially the last part where they are firing 'nukes' at little meteorites, and I can't stress this enough this is a cloud sized swarm of little meteorites and the 4 missiles explode like cheap 90's game graphics and the screen wide swarm just vanishes. Oh and the part where a Falcon Heavy sized rocket flies into a bigger comet and said comet just bounces off this rocket's explosion. See this film simply for the terribly amazing graphics, that's all I can say because the characters and plot are just 2D.

A handful of meteorites penetrating the earth's atmoshpehere and causing a few pin pricks of damge here and there is dramatised as a major disaster. The actind is wooden aand the plot is unoriginal to the point of being boring. I turned off after they said a further 3 US cities were due to be hit by these meteor showers. Could see the film was going nowhere and it was just another disaster movie all about America.

So very bad that it becomes amusing. I can't believe I watched it all the way through, though it did make me laugh a few times. The science is atrocious, the continuity is hit and miss (more miss than hit) and the special FX are 1970'S thunderbirds.

A scientist manages to discover all the remarkable properties of an entirely new element using nothing but a microscope. Her ex-husband, who conveniently used to be a colonel specialising in rockets and is now involved in disaster management, is apparently the only person who is actually doing anything while also being able to find his kids in an entire city every time they get into peril. Even when they're trapped in an elevator in a collapsing building. The scientist's sister dies (fatally overcome by how bad the special effects are) and after a few tears it's as if she never existed at all. This movie has all that and so much less.

Bad production and directing, terrible on cue explosions, too much pointless dialogue from unconvincing actors, the lead female's expressions looked as if she had put her pants on the wrong way round. Was like watching early tv episodes. Actually that's a bit overstretched, old Star Trek was better. Camera stayed in place while various actors walked in front to speak as if it was a play. The meteor storm stayed in place not because of the feeble explanations in the movie but because it was low budget and all filmed in the same location. Laughable liaison with the Russians to explode nukes over their country.