Actuarial Science Movie Reviews

For a B-movie, this was not bad over all. The story was engaging and not total hollywood shlok. While it was no Star trek or 5th element, it was one of the better low buget sci-fi movies. This was more of a B+ movie then just a B-movie. A little bigger buget and maybe this could have gone some where...who knows. Over all I think this is a fun film, and you should give it a try.

Do not expect a 6 stars film . This is not a " Fifth Element " or "Total recall ". But how many sci-fi movies are ? If you don't expect too much - a solid 4 stars sci-fi film with a lot of very good visual affects and interesting twists with all kind of dementions mixed up on mother Earth . I did enjoy it and proud to admit it .
A high school kid didn't know that his father was warrior from a Kindom , ruling most of the dementions on Earth . The day came ...and he had to find out his real meaning in this world . And I don't think he was sorry ! If you a sci-fi fan - defenatly check it out .

ok yes it was on the low buget side but that doesnt make it any less great!! the preformences were very good and it didnt have bad speacial effects for a "low buget " flickthe plot was interesting and kepts a persons attetion beside "joe" adorble and great actor... "AT" lol funny great guy :) and "laura" can i have the boots??

This movie has the theme of "The Producers" (1968) in which they must make a flop movie or pay the IRS more than they have. The "Maine lobster" (oops) the Martian lobster is similar to the ant man in "Matinee" (1993) where the mant is always trying to put his claw where it doesn't belong. I do not believe that they left out any of the old monster and Mars clichés.
Tony Curtis pretty much plays himself. See him again in a serious film Goodbye Charlie (1964) and Deborah Foreman won the prestigious "Most Promising New Star" award from Show West 1986. Patrick Macnee is the Uncle Professor Plocostomos. You may remember him in "Creature Wasn't Nice, The" (1981) as Dr. Stark. There are many other major stars in this movie.
If you found this movie interesting, especially when they leave the air collector on "Auto...," then the next movie to watch should be "Out There (1995) the investment may be pricey. But it is worth it.

An incredible piece of cult silliness, "Lobster Man From Mars" is a treat for fans of classic Grade Z science fiction flicks. A modern shrine to the old drive-in masters, this movie will bring heavy snickers and pleasant memories for those who long for the bad old days of bad old movies. Odds are that if the title didn't scare you away from the get-go, you'll certainly enjoy yourself.

Lobster Man From Mars actually has quite the pedigree. The great Orson Welles himself came up with the title (no kidding!), and had agreed to appear in the picture before his untimely death. (He is remembered in the closing credits, and his role was played by the legendary Tony Curtis.) However, pedigree is probably the last thing on the minds of this film's target audience, save for the repressed giggles of recognition upon hearing the voice of legendary radio schlock jock Dr. Demento as the movie's narrator or discovering that the Martian astrologer is played by Bobby "Boris" Pickett, the man who gave the world "The Monster Mash."

The "picture within a picture" that is "Lobster Man From Mars" is a brilliant shrine to the classic days of bad movie making, from cheap alien movies to teenagers-save-the-world flicks to wiseguy private eye films. The great clichés are all lovingly reproduced in such a manner that it is obvious that great care was taken in their selection and placement, along with many of the bad filmmaking conventions that many modern directors might have forgotten to include.

The awful young English actor (Anthony Hickox, Hellraiser II) playing the hero, the oddly domestic yet independent blonde girlfriend (Deborah Foreman, Valley Girl) who's the true brains behind the outfit, The Brilliant Scientist (Patrick Macnee, The Avengers) and, of course, the Dreaded Lobster Man (S.D. Nemeth, RoboCop) and his helmet-wearing simian sidekick, Mombo (officially uncredited) are all composites of the best cliché characters that the Grade Z classics have to offer.

No detail is missed, and no silly effort spared. To those who don't appreciate the bad old days of genre drek, all of this art and attention to craft will pass right by and indeed seem like little more than cheap silliness, but for those who truly love the classics... this is reverential art done well.

Includes lots of extra features plus an onscreen running commentary with Star Trek's George Takei (Captain Sulu) with director Stanley Sheff.

This movie has the theme of "The Producers" (1968) in which they must make a flop movie or pay the IRS more than they have. The "Maine lobster" (oops) the Martian lobster is similar to the ant man in "Matinee" (1993) where the mant is always trying to put his claw where it doesn't belong. I do not believe that they left out any of the old monster and Mars clichés.
Tony Curtis pretty much plays himself. See him again in a serious film "Goodbye Charlie (1964) ASIN: B00000IBMF" and Deborah Foreman won the prestigious "Most Promising New Star" award from Show West 1986. Patrick Macnee is the Uncle Professor Plocostomos. You may remember him in "Creature Wasn't Nice, The" (1981) as Dr. Stark. There are many other major stars in this movie.
If you found this movie interesting, especially when they leave the air collector on "Auto Suck," then the next movie to watch should be "Out There (1995) ASIN: 6303965954" the investment may be pricey. But it is worth it.

This does not even have value as a B-movie. Why? Because it has extremely high production values and is not a real B-movie. It's just one big blazing waste of money left over from 1983.

Three years after "Facts of Life," but a year away from her triumphant role in "Sixteen Candles," Molly Ringwald finds herself the prisoner of some tricked-out bum named Overdog on a junk planet that looks like Fred Sanford's backyard. Peter Strauss, the poor man's Richard Chamberlain, plays the poor man's Han Solo (or Lone Starr, if you prefer) and tries to rescue her.

Yes, "Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone" is low-budget fun directed by Lamont Johnson. According to the IMDb, Johnson once played Tarzan on radio. With this movie, he shows a keen radio performer's eye for cinema. Ripping off "Star Wars" and "Road Warrior" and featuring more rickety metal garbage than any four episodes of TLC's "Junkyard Wars," this flick has a spunky little heart but little else to offer.

Ringwald would go on to become John Hughes' teen muse and the undisputed 80s teen comedy queen, usually playing upper middle class girls dating sexless, nonthreatening gimps like Andrew McCarthy. Here, she's a punky little spitfire who needs a bath and a shave. Come to think of it, she IS the spunky little heart of this movie. The rest of it can go to hell! But I kid "Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone." It's a silly movie with a clumsy title, yet worth watching with friends some drunken evening. But please- try not to confuse "Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone" with "Metalstorm: the Destruction of Jared Synn." They both have colons in their titles, and promise things like "adventures," "destruction" and "Jared Synn."

But only "Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone" has Molly Ringwald being tortured by Michael Ironside. Ask for it by name!

This movie freaking rules. When I was a kid it was on every time I was sick home from school, on public TV, at about noon. It was very consistent. I TRUST THIS MOVIE. Buy it. It will always be there for you in times of need and is perfect with soup and kleenex and a couch.

If you are looking for a movie to catagorize the poor films of the 70s, here it is. A rediculous plot and poor acting go right with hilarious special affects, including the dog falling through the sun roof and the dude being electracuted by a chain-link fence. It was worth it for me, because me and my friends needed to rent 1 more movie to get a discount, and the comical title and our lack of time forced us to hurridly pick this turkey. Plus it was fun to rip on everything in a MST3K-style manor with my buddies that night, but certainly dont spend 25 bucks on this disasterpiece.

I first discovered this movie about 15 years ago when it ran on a rainy Saturday afternoon throwaway slot. This isn't a great movie, but it's a great potboiler, where even if you know how it's going to end, you like watching the characters unravel throughout the story. Camp at its best.

You don't see movies like this anymore, probably because they don't use self-conscious ironic detachment. The (over)acting must be good enough that the players actually inhabit their roles. Play it straight and it's unwatchable. The effects aren't so special, so it's just as well that the action is implicit rather than graphic.

Everything about the film is dated--there's no mistaking the costumes or the music for any era other than the mid 70's. For that matter, the voiceover, the ticking clock and the freeze-frame shots of the characters probably looked dated even when the movie was new. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. Later the horror film evolved into the mindless slasher film in the late-70's-early 80's, where the killer was only a setpiece, and then into the 90's, where the ironic, self-aware Scream type picture cannibalized the former genre. So hungry were moviegoers for subtle, sincere horror that they drooled over Blair Witch. It was a valiant effort, the spookfest had all been done better, when films relied on pacing, acting and camera angle to scare the audience instead of gore.

It's surprising enough that this film merited a DVD release at all and I was so thankful to find it that I didn't even care about the lack of outtakes and extra comments. The next rainy Saturday afternoon I'm watching this again.

I recently purchased this film on DVD purely as a matter of nostalgia.

This flick first caught my attention one dark, lonely night when I was five or six years old and suffering from my seasonal allergies and asthma attack. This movie both entertained me and scared me to death. It has been twenty-three years since I last saw it and, to my surprise, I still think it's a really good movie, though for very different reasons.

Sure they put a fur coat on a black dog and expect us to buy it as a wolf. Sure the soundtrack seems better suited to "Shaft in Merry Ol' England" as opposed to a modern gothic horror film. Sure the acting is heavily stylized and, at times, just plain goofy. Sure the "Werewolf Break" in which the audience is given thirty seconds in which to dissect a fairly uncomplicated mystery is way out in Goofyville, but who cares?! Anyone who finds fault with the above is, quite obviously, someone who should not be watching this film in the first place. Like many films made in the long ago and far away, you have to accept a certain level of culture shock. Like many horror films you have to be willing to suspend your disbelief nigh on to the breaking point. Like many British films you have to put up with acting that seems more suited to Stratford on Avon than Dogma 95. Accept these as simple facts of life or don't rent it, folks. It's just that simple.

I've read several negative reviews for this particular film which stress the above elements over and over again. Surprisingly, many of these are written by avowed horror hounds who would probably love the movie if it had nudity and/or more gore. I'm certainly no prude and would turn away from neither should a "Director's Cut" of "The Beast Must Die" ever surface. Then again, sometimes it really is nice to see a horror film like this or any of the Amicus vignette films of the sixties and seventies ("Tales From the Crypt," "The Vault of Horror," "Asylum," et. al.) They have an innocense and a joviality that you just don't find often enough. Though some recent horror fare (most notably the "House on Haunted Hill" remake and any episode of HBO's "Tales From the Crypt") attempt to emulate the feel of a picture like this, they always seem to miss the mark. Perhaps its because they are much more willing to let fly with the gore and nudity. The resulting product hence becoming muddled somewhere between childishness and exploitativeness. (For a further discussion of this see the write-up of Stephen King's "Maximum Overdrive" penned by the good people at Jabootu.com).

In closing, if you like seventies kitsch or Brit horror of the period or if you just find yourself in the mood for a watchable mystery, you could do a hell of a lot worse. I mean, "Murder, She Wrote" could still be on the air.

Like what it says above, worthless. Do not buy.

This is no academy award winner, but it sets out to be a low budget over the top combination of horror, surreal nightmare and extreme violence and effects and it does it all very well! The story line is solid and transfered to film nicely. While the acting is often bordering on bad, overall it doesn't distract the viewer and often adds to the feel of the movie. I would suggest this (as well as Scrapbook by Stanze) if you are looking for a solid low budget movie to offend your senses.

This is a film that was made with heart and soul. If you want to see a gutsy film with the knowledge of how to break commerecial conventions, this film would be for you. It contains its own sense of perameters, not ones set by a corporate society. This is experimental filmmaking with excellent juxtaposition between sound and visual, black&white and color photography, and marred footage. It all makes for a very cutting edge experience like no other I have ever witnessed before. Excellent film, but one should be warned that this is not for the timid.

This is really a terrible movie. Really. The dub is off sync, the plot makes no sense, and the score is, well... incredibly bad. The cuts in between scenes are dizzying, as is the cinematography (at a few points, we were blinded by the bright lights in the movie). Finally, the Martian eggs are the best actors in the film, understanding dramatic tension and irony better than any of the characters. (Plus, they light up, hum, and... explode...)

All that said, I loved this movie. It was HILARIOUS. It just can't be taken too seriously, that's all. I thoroughly enjoyed the witty dialogue ("Whatever happened to the crew, it was SUDDEN.") and the scenes involving Martians. The "Cyclops" is beautifully constructed, complete with a blinking eye bulb. The "Martian cave" is full of the lovely eggs (or exploding, humming avacados) and is so bright and white, all thought processes will cease until the end of the movie. The exploding gore effects are great too... I'd go into more detail, but that'd ruin the fun.

And I must thank "The Goblin" for his excellent work in composing the score. Well done. It will take me a few weeks to recover...

From start to finish, Contamination is a good sci-fi movie that some people claim is an Alien rip-off. In a way it is with stomachs exploding on screen that is closely familiar with the scene in Alien when an alien popped out of John Hurt's stomach. Along with an excellent Goblin score, Contamination is very suspensful. Here is the plot.

A crew spots a ship on the shore of NY that seems deserted (very similar to Zombie which was filmed in NY also). A local lieutenant along with a scientist and associates search through the ship that seems empty until they spot corpses of the people on board. What seems weird is that all the men have been found dead, but with their bodies torn apart. Then, they spot a couple of green eggs and one that is heated up. One of the men picks up the egg and it suddenly explodes with debris hitting all of the men except the lieutenant. All of a sudden, they are all torn apart.

A female military scientist then gets in the act, along with the lieutenant that survived on the ship. They discover, after facing off with guardsmen who protect another group of eggs and sacrificing their lives in front of the crowd, two things: these eggs must be from outer space, and why do they come in boxes labeled coffee?

While figuring the mess out, the scientist remembers an astronaut who returned from an expedition claming that there were green eggs and some bright light. She goes to visit the poor geezer who is now an alcoholic living in pity. She discusses the discovery of green eggs he discovered during the expedition. He explains that he and his partner traveled to mars and saw eggs. Then, a ball of light just gets bigger with his partner, Hamilton, just staring. From there, the astronaut, scientist and the lieutenant head to South America to explore the connection with these eggs and coffee with some tragic results.

As stated earlier, this is a good movie, but it has its faults. First of all, the plot is confusing, but it is not a surprise that it's from an Italian movie which is notorious for having lots of gore, but a plot that doesn't make any sense. The reason for the eggs being on Earth doesn't make sense. Second of all is the lieutenant. At first when we get to know him, he is serious and takes his work seriously. When the movie moves along, he becomes a horrible-like gigolo who tries to make a move on the female lead. It makes him look awful and unfortunately, his embarrassment ends with him getting killed. Third and final is the alien. It looks like an alien you would see in a 50's sci-fi bomb. It isn't really scary but it makes you pay attention to it.

Other than the faults, it is a good movie with a pounding Goblin score enhanced by Dolby Digital 5.1 and a good performance by Ian McCulloch. It is a good movie for anybody interested in sci-fi and Italian horror.

A boat arrives in New York Harbor, explorers look around the deserted ship to find out that the crew has died and has a cargo of green alien eggs that squirt a liquid that can make people explode. However, it's up to a research woman and a former Astronaut ( Ian McCulloch) to find out the mystery of the deadly Eggs and it's carrier which happens to be a cycloptic monster.
A somewhat farfetched but very exciting Italian Science Fiction horror shocker with some decent perfomances, but the dubbing was ok and there is some great make-up and gore effects such as the exploding chest scenes. The DVD by Blue Underground is terrific in picture and sound quality, the extras are very good but this is definitely good for a gore-hound or Sci-fi lover.
Also recommended: The Thing ( 1982), Scanners, Total Recall, Phenomena ( a.k.a. Creepers), Day of the Dead, Return of the Aliens: The Deadly Spawn, Tenebre, Killer Klowns From Outer Space, Critters, Night of the Creeps, Bad Taste, Alien, Aliens, Alien3, Alien Resurrection, Predator, The Toxic Avenger, Pitch Black, Starship Troopers, and The Beyond.

This is really a terrible movie. Really. The dub is off sync, the plot makes no sense, and the score is, well... incredibly bad. The cuts in between scenes are dizzying, as is the cinematography (at a few points, we were blinded by the bright lights in the movie). Finally, the Martian eggs are the best actors in the film, understanding dramatic tension and irony better than any of the characters. (Plus, they light up, hum, and... explode...)

All that said, I loved this movie. It was HILARIOUS. It just can't be taken too seriously, that's all. I thoroughly enjoyed the witty dialogue ("Whatever happened to the crew, it was SUDDEN.") and the scenes involving Martians. The "Cyclops" is beautifully constructed, complete with a blinking eye bulb. The "Martian cave" is full of the lovely eggs (or exploding, humming avacados) and is so bright and white, all thought processes will cease until the end of the movie. The exploding gore effects are great too... I'd go into more detail, but that'd ruin the fun.

And I must thank "The Goblin" for his excellent work in composing the score. Well done. It will take me a few weeks to recover...

From start to finish, Contamination is a good sci-fi movie that some people claim is an Alien rip-off. In a way it is with stomachs exploding on screen that is closely familiar with the scene in Alien when an alien popped out of John Hurt's stomach. Along with an excellent Goblin score, Contamination is very suspensful. Here is the plot.

A crew spots a ship on the shore of NY that seems deserted (very similar to Zombie which was filmed in NY also). A local lieutenant along with a scientist and associates search through the ship that seems empty until they spot corpses of the people on board. What seems weird is that all the men have been found dead, but with their bodies torn apart. Then, they spot a couple of green eggs and one that is heated up. One of the men picks up the egg and it suddenly explodes with debris hitting all of the men except the lieutenant. All of a sudden, they are all torn apart.

A female military scientist then gets in the act, along with the lieutenant that survived on the ship. They discover, after facing off with guardsmen who protect another group of eggs and sacrificing their lives in front of the crowd, two things: these eggs must be from outer space, and why do they come in boxes labeled coffee?

While figuring the mess out, the scientist remembers an astronaut who returned from an expedition claming that there were green eggs and some bright light. She goes to visit the poor geezer who is now an alcoholic living in pity. She discusses the discovery of green eggs he discovered during the expedition. He explains that he and his partner traveled to mars and saw eggs. Then, a ball of light just gets bigger with his partner, Hamilton, just staring. From there, the astronaut, scientist and the lieutenant head to South America to explore the connection with these eggs and coffee with some tragic results.

As stated earlier, this is a good movie, but it has its faults. First of all, the plot is confusing, but it is not a surprise that it's from an Italian movie which is notorious for having lots of gore, but a plot that doesn't make any sense. The reason for the eggs being on Earth doesn't make sense. Second of all is the lieutenant. At first when we get to know him, he is serious and takes his work seriously. When the movie moves along, he becomes a horrible-like gigolo who tries to make a move on the female lead. It makes him look awful and unfortunately, his embarrassment ends with him getting killed. Third and final is the alien. It looks like an alien you would see in a 50's sci-fi bomb. It isn't really scary but it makes you pay attention to it.

Other than the faults, it is a good movie with a pounding Goblin score enhanced by Dolby Digital 5.1 and a good performance by Ian McCulloch. It is a good movie for anybody interested in sci-fi and Italian horror.

A boat arrives in New York Harbor, explorers look around the deserted ship to find out that the crew has died and has a cargo of green alien eggs that squirt a liquid that can make people explode. However, it's up to a research woman and a former Astronaut ( Ian McCulloch) to find out the mystery of the deadly Eggs and it's carrier which happens to be a cycloptic monster.
A somewhat farfetched but very exciting Italian Science Fiction horror shocker with some decent perfomances, but the dubbing was ok and there is some great make-up and gore effects such as the exploding chest scenes. The DVD by Blue Underground is terrific in picture and sound quality, the extras are very good but this is definitely good for a gore-hound or Sci-fi lover.
Also recommended: The Thing ( 1982), Scanners, Total Recall, Phenomena ( a.k.a. Creepers), Day of the Dead, Return of the Aliens: The Deadly Spawn, Tenebre, Killer Klowns From Outer Space, Critters, Night of the Creeps, Bad Taste, Alien, Aliens, Alien3, Alien Resurrection, Predator, The Toxic Avenger, Pitch Black, Starship Troopers, and The Beyond.

The technical details say the audio track is Japanese. It isn't. The audio is dubbed English. I order Japanese DVDs with English subtitles so I can learn Japanese. If that's why you want to order this movie -- don't!

Based on some of the reviews I read here, I bought this movie for my four year old daughter because she is obsessed with the "old school" Mothra.

I pre-screened only the first half of the movie (my mistake) before letting her watch it. She looooved it until the end when the wacked-out Ghidrah 2 or whatever it is "killed" the mom Mothra and started biting the baby Mothra and gallons of yellow blood started pouring out.

She became very upset and didn't like it much after that. :-0

I would not let kids under age ten or so watch this movie because of this one sequence.

Okay, so these aren't adult movies. Let's be honest - how many `adults' in the stereotypical sense will sit through a Godzilla movie. Well, I will. Why the gripe about the Rebirth Of Mothra movies being `geared towards kids?' Just because the kids are the main characters doesn't make it any less entertaining. I guess the main difference between these and the Godzilla movies is there is not a lot of collateral damage. Most of the battles take place in the wilderness away from innocent civilians, and the military never gets involved (I guess so long as the cities are left alone, the Japanese military doesn't care what the monsters do). Hence, G-rated Godzilla...very little chaos and destructiveness, but enjoyable nonetheless. If you're a godzilla fan I'm pretty confident you'll like these, and if you're not, its okay to let the kids see `em. They've got a great anti-industry pro-earth message, and fantastic, four color effects -really superior. With the kids as main characters, younger viewers won't get bored either.

REBIRTH OF MOTHRA - When my nine year old saw this he wept like the Dickens. Remember, the title IS `REBIRTH of Mothra.' But don't worry.... if Sci Fi teaches us anything its that death is never forever. Basically nasty treekillers clearing a path for progress bust open an ancient seal which unleashes Desghidorah (or Death Ghidorah), a black hydra (kind of a four legged King Ghidorah) which drinks the life out of forests. The Elias, those irrepresible Earth First faeries from Infant Island sing that kickin' Mothra song and call up earth's protector (a giant moth, for those unfamiliar with the character) to go and trump Desghidorah, who is being egged on by an evil faerie called Belvera. When the tide turns for the worse, Mothra's (son/daughter?) larva speedily cocoons itself and is born as Rainbow Mothra - a really stunning looking creature with the ability to heal the damage Desghidorah has done. The story is told from the point of view of a little boy and his sister, and if you're looking for a good all-around morality tale, SPOILER AHEAD: Desghidorah goes down, the Elias forgive Belvera, and the brother and sister (and their distant parents) all learn to love each other better.END SPOILER

REBIRTH OF MOTHRA 2: The effects in this one are stupendous (particularly Aquamothra's final attack on Dagharla), but the story is a tad weaker. In this one three kids discover a weird little alien (?) creature who leads them to a kind of Atlantean temple out in the middle of the Sea of Japan. At the same time as all this, deadly acid-spitting starfish are popping up all over thanks to Dagharla, an giant amphibious beastie again being supported by Belvera. Two teens (or twentysomethings) chase the kids, looking to exploit the little alien thing. Again, good morality tale, as everything and everybody turns out not so bad in the end (and there's no death in this one, except for SPOILER AHEAD:the noble self-sacrifice of the little alien thing at the end). END SPOILER Good for the kids, but beware that the little alien thing can produce a liquid which has the power to heal, and its delivery is a little gross...get the picture?

Overall, great stuff for the whole family, especially if the whole family likes Godzilla (like mine does). Maybe a little silly at points, but so what? If you're bothering to read this review, you will most likely enjoy it. Go ahead. Buy it, and get the kids hooked on kaiju movies. And if you're a mothra fan, you'll love it. The faeries get a great treatment, Mothra is updated and has some nifty new powers, and the Mosura song sounds cool as ever. No, its not in Japanse (it doesn't say it is anywhere on the package either), but it IS widescreen, and the sound and picture are crisp and clear.

Yes, it's no Deep Impact or Armeggedon. The only similiarity is the asteroid. And if were not for two little things, this would've been a four star movie. First, there is a water-crashing-over-land scene that is reminiscent of the old days (the 60's) when we saw frothy bathwater being tossed over miniature model towns. It's an eyesore in the movie and that's when you start to notice the acting aint all that great either. There are alot of really good effects mixed in though, which is puzzling. There is no spaceship that attempts to make a landing on the asteroid, and their defensive ideas all revolve around lasers instead of nukes. There is a movie here, but they mixed in some pretty bad effects with the good ones and spent too much TIME focusing on the drama of the doctor's lost child and the grandpa. You know what happens, she spends at least a half hour of the movie looking through a wasteland, and then there's another 30 minutes spent on totally irrelevant action sequences while rescuing a boy from his own stupidity (he wanders into an asteroid crater - that is on fire).
Reviewers seem to like this movie, and it wasn't all that bad. Deep Impact is one of my favorite movies, so I had to check this out. I can only watch Armeggedon if I'm alone and allowed to fast-forward through all the drama scenes. And Asteroid will never be watched twice - i.e. rent.

OK this ain't 'Armagedon' or 'Deep Impact' but it's still watchable and will surely have viewers eager to stick around until the very end.
From the producer of 'Predator," Waterworld" and "Daylight" comes this action-thriller about a massive asteroid on a deadly collision course with our planet. Originally shown as mini-series on T.V.

If you know any science at all - and I mean even a tiny bit then this film is for you. It's been years since a film has demonstrated a complete lack of credibility scientifically. You know, if it was the "Color Purple" or something, that would be fine - but this IS a science-oriented film and it's hilariously bad. I nearly cried laughing at it. Some of the highlights:

A 4 mile asteroid is "blowed-up" (I can't say blown up, that's what adults would say) by two or three navy fighter airyplanes that have little laser beams (yes, it's "laser beams" - not just lasers) stuck on the front of them.. The laser beams started out at about 1/2 inch wide, travelled through the rest of the atmosphere and landed on the asteroid, practically covering it. Then it blowed-up.

Oh.. and the planes were flying at about 200.. Now if i remember rightly, in airyplaney-talk, they always say how many thousands of feet their at, so 200 is 200,000 feet.. So the planes (including an old tomcat - came off a carrier, don't you know) flew higher than a spy plane. Without falling out of the sky because there was no air or nothing..

Not only that, but the pilots have little asteroid shapes moving around in their HUD displays (just like tie-fighters in star wars) They eventually get "lock" on the four mile object that's hundreds of thousands of miles from earth.. grin.. wow I was wretching with giggles at that point...

The bits keep hitting America mostly too, oh and Canada (for variety?)

One asteroidy bit hit a funfair park and exploded over it as a small firework display. Lot of confusion and screaming, probably by the actors to let them out of the plot..

This is terrible.. buy beer.. a lot of beer.. and start ticklin' them ribs.

Yes, it's no Deep Impact or Armeggedon. The only similiarity is the asteroid. And if were not for two little things, this would've been a four star movie. First, there is a water-crashing-over-land scene that is reminiscent of the old days (the 60's) when we saw frothy bathwater being tossed over miniature model towns. It's an eyesore in the movie and that's when you start to notice the acting aint all that great either. There are alot of really good effects mixed in though, which is puzzling. There is no spaceship that attempts to make a landing on the asteroid, and their defensive ideas all revolve around lasers instead of nukes. There is a movie here, but they mixed in some pretty bad effects with the good ones and spent too much TIME focusing on the drama of the doctor's lost child and the grandpa. You know what happens, she spends at least a half hour of the movie looking through a wasteland, and then there's another 30 minutes spent on totally irrelevant action sequences while rescuing a boy from his own stupidity (he wanders into an asteroid crater - that is on fire).
Reviewers seem to like this movie, and it wasn't all that bad. Deep Impact is one of my favorite movies, so I had to check this out. I can only watch Armeggedon if I'm alone and allowed to fast-forward through all the drama scenes. And Asteroid will never be watched twice - i.e. rent.

OK this ain't 'Armagedon' or 'Deep Impact' but it's still watchable and will surely have viewers eager to stick around until the very end.
From the producer of 'Predator," Waterworld" and "Daylight" comes this action-thriller about a massive asteroid on a deadly collision course with our planet. Originally shown as mini-series on T.V.

If you know any science at all - and I mean even a tiny bit then this film is for you. It's been years since a film has demonstrated a complete lack of credibility scientifically. You know, if it was the "Color Purple" or something, that would be fine - but this IS a science-oriented film and it's hilariously bad. I nearly cried laughing at it. Some of the highlights:

A 4 mile asteroid is "blowed-up" (I can't say blown up, that's what adults would say) by two or three navy fighter airyplanes that have little laser beams (yes, it's "laser beams" - not just lasers) stuck on the front of them.. The laser beams started out at about 1/2 inch wide, travelled through the rest of the atmosphere and landed on the asteroid, practically covering it. Then it blowed-up.

Oh.. and the planes were flying at about 200.. Now if i remember rightly, in airyplaney-talk, they always say how many thousands of feet their at, so 200 is 200,000 feet.. So the planes (including an old tomcat - came off a carrier, don't you know) flew higher than a spy plane. Without falling out of the sky because there was no air or nothing..

Not only that, but the pilots have little asteroid shapes moving around in their HUD displays (just like tie-fighters in star wars) They eventually get "lock" on the four mile object that's hundreds of thousands of miles from earth.. grin.. wow I was wretching with giggles at that point...

The bits keep hitting America mostly too, oh and Canada (for variety?)

One asteroidy bit hit a funfair park and exploded over it as a small firework display. Lot of confusion and screaming, probably by the actors to let them out of the plot..

This is terrible.. buy beer.. a lot of beer.. and start ticklin' them ribs.