Boobirt Stylish but barely mediocre overall

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Sabah Hensley This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

aliway The second...weather related film I've seen off Syfy was definitely the better.We follow a town which becomes the victim of a meteor shower, which threatens the very Earth itself.Now, I didn't expect much, but the special effects were actually not that bad, some great explosions and cars flipping into the air. The meteors themselves, well let's admit it, they weren't as good as 'Deep Impact' or 'Armageddon', but they were mediocre.The acting wasn't that bad either, some great acting in fact, but like every single other film off SyFy, some scenes were terrible. Now that's a rare, some scenes. Mostly films off SyFy have all terrible scenes. The teenagers however are quite annoying sometimes, particularly at the start when they seemed to hate their parents for no reason. We then find out the Mayor's daughter Emily (Desirée Loewen) doesn't want to move town whilst a sheriff's son Seth (Graham Wardle) is being forced to write to his mother. Why the son doesn't like his mother and why the sheriff split with his wife I don't know, I kind of blacked out. I'm guessing she had an affair. Sheeree J. Wilson does a great job at playing Mayor Anna Davenport-Baxter, but I do feel she comes on to strong at some points, and too weak at others, as does Peter LaCroix as Jack Baxter.Oh, by the way, Anna and Jack's son is dead. We are told this and apparently his ghost is hovering around his mother. Good for him. But seriously, Anna being haunted by her dead son (Zak Ludwig) actually has no impact on the film, there was seriously no point in having that in the film. She wasn't even being haunted! She couldn't see him! There is one scene where you think she sees him, but then again she was probably crying because she was thinking "Oh God we're gonna die,".Oh and my favourite line of the film, when Seth was trapped under a tree and Emily was trying to help him, he says "Come on, if a meteorite can knock down a tree, you should be able to push it with your legs.". Where's his logic in that? Has he felt her leg muscles or something? Probably has, but this tree was massive, where did he get the idea that a girl in her late teens can move a tree that had to have weighed a hundred tonne, give or take.Overall, not a bad stab at an apocalypse style film. Meteors have been done before, but so has everything else.

Theo Robertson Apparently this is a sci-fi disaster movie . I use the word apparently because it rarely becomes apparent that its this type of genre . Instead we're treated ( Not the correct word ) to a disease of the week type TVM where a hard working mom juggles a career and angst ridden off spring along with an estranged husband . You'd think that with so much on her plate the last thing she'd need would be a deadly meteorite storm and so the producers of this tripe show her some mercy by not allowing any death defying derring-do until late in to the narrative . Though to be fair they do remind the audience as to what's coming by showing a shower of GCI boulders moving towards Earth . But by this time you'll be struggling to draw breath never mind stay awake When the meteors finally do hit the fan the disease of the week theme continues . It's really overdone as we're shown the community sticking together such as a picket line suddenly breaking up as the downtrodden blue collar proles realise that saving people from a burning supermarket is more important than striking for a living wage . We're even shown a vomit inducing scene in a hospital where a doctor explains to another character what wonderful staff he has because none of them have taken a day off work in 37 years . I'll tell you what - you might want to be absent from the room when a TV station broadcasts this sickly nonsense

M K From some of the other reviews, I expected this to be a bit less of a chore to watch. Without revealing any plot elements, let me just say that this movie starts out with some awkward dialogue; the acting is laughable at times, and the plot seems to progress far too quickly. I don't claim to be a film expert, but as a whole this seemed rushed. And why did we need so many shots of the meteors from space? We get it, they're heading towards the Earth. Some mild scientific inaccuracies and cliché plot suspense elements are present, but I can't say that I didn't expect them after the first few scenes.I'm sure this film would be bearable for a rainy day or a lazy Saturday morning, and I'm thankful that it wasn't much longer. I wasn't a huge fan of these two films either, but I'd say that Armageddon and Deep Impact would be much more worth your time.**Mild Spoiler Ahead** (are you really planning on watching it?)Favourite quote from the film: "Come on, if a meteorite can knock down a tree, you should be able to push it with your legs." It was a huge tree. Not much logic in that (terrible) scene, or in the rest of the film.

llawrance1972 I have just seen this film on the Sci-fi channel. I was pleasantly surprised both by the quality of the acting and the strength of the story.The decision to focus on the characters relationships and the every day decisions that can effect us was a brave one. I thought the image of Anna's dead son throughout the film both moving and thought provoking. It was also very interesting to have a film where the ending was really in doubt and that these characters were left on their own by the authorities, a reflection perhaps on events after Hurricane Katrina? All in all a well made, carefully thought out film without the usual stereotypes. Would it have been better with a different ending?