Meteor Storm [DVD]

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.

This film is so bad that it is almost funny...........for the first 20 minutes or so. After that I simply had to give up on it as it just seemed to get worse and worse.The storyline and plot is a joke - a serious enough disaster made comical by total lack of realism and loads of excessively cheesy so-called "special effects". I am actually amazed that this film was made in 2010, as the "special effects" are so poor that you would expect them to be made by school children doing a project or something.........and I would in fact imagine that school children could have done a much better job of it.The casting is completely off target and I am seriously wondering if the majority of the cast are simply people taken straight off the street. The hero (Michael Trucco) does not do much towards raising the level of acting, riding his motorbike around the meteor struck city, commandeering TV crews, and trying to act the tough guy. The outcome is almost funny, but not for very long, so I am truly baffled that anyone can sit through the entire 1 hour and 26 minutes, and then give this film 5 stars!I certainly don't mind a well made B film, but this film is way further down the alphabet, and I can genuinely not recommend throwing away 1 hours and 26 minutes of your life watching it.

Meteor storm is no Armageddon. No big disaster movie. It's B-movie actors in a B-movie story. It's above all the story that falls short. It's stupid, lame and simply not very interesting. I really don't care about these people, mainly because almost all of them do unbelievable stupid things. Example: The two kids from the two main characters are, when there finally save, looking for a friend of them (they also seem to escape a heavenly guarded facility), who of course live almost on the top floor of an appartment building. They go up in an elevator...and get stuck. What a surprise! It's daddy who save's them and the friend (again), just before the building collapses (Yawn). Need I say more.Don't expect anything surprising. A nice sister dies, a stupid selfish reporter dies..No surprises there at all. Oh and the reason why the meteor storm only targetted San Francisco is so lame and unbelievable not even a child would believe that one!Then why did I give this two stars. Well simply because of the excellent effects and an interesting opening of the film, but after that it only gets worst. The destruction of the golden gate bridge is excellent, but even then the story pays havoc and is able to destroy that scene. And by the way, the destruction doesn't look as good as it looks on the cover of the dvd.So two stars for the special effects, but don't expect anything more than that.

I'm normally quite tolerant of far-fetched plots but this one takes the cake. We go from a supposedly harmless meteor 'storm' to the end of the world in a single day. And no one saw it coming. With an ordinary (but well connected) couple saving people in the street and ultimately the entire world. And as usual, the estranged couple get back together again in the end. If you just want to sit back and be 'entertained' for 90 minutes this movie is an OK diversion. Just make sure your expectations aren't too high. The special effects are what you would expect - maybe a bit better than other films of this budget (don't get me wrong - they're still ordinary). Sound is stereo only - not 5.1.

One of those films that is so bad, it's brilliant. We laughed from start to finish, would recommend to others. Don't take it too seriously, it's a low budget basic movie starring absolute z-listers, you're not buying a piece of Hollywood here but it's very enjoyable.

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.