Pluskylang Great Film overall

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

pointyfilippa The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Platypuschow Scyfy originals are never going to meet critical acclaim but often they hold a certain charm about them that makes them watchable in that dumb viewing type of way.Sadly Quantum Apocalypse doesn't have that charm and is one of their many many many many meteor apocalypse films and when you've seen one you've officially seen them all.Containing that common scyfy original side plot about a step parent and resentful step child I do question why we see this so often.Credit however where credit is due, many of the cast are quite competent including the highly underused Gigi "Farscape" Edgley and Rhett Giles who puts in a career best performance as an autistic.Make no mistake they don't make up for this embarrassing clichéd mess but they do bring levity to what could have been one of the scyfy channels worst if they weren't present.The Good: Gigi Edgley Usual Scyfy pseudo science The Bad: Usual Scyfy pseudo scienceSoundtrackOffensively recycled and unoriginal Dumb endingThings I learnt from this movie:Gigi Edgley needs to pick her roles better

clive-13 I know very little about computers and even less about quantum physics, but enjoyed all the hookum put forth in the Sci-Fi channel presentation. I loved the basic story of a giant asteroid/magnetic anomaly/space and time bending "THING" suddenly changing directions and heading for where? Of course....EARTH!!!Yes, the CGI was barely acceptable and clearly they had a tiny budget for this wing-dinger of a far out story, but I did love all the scientific mumbo-jumbo in the dialog.The acting in general was sub-par, but didn't make me sick. The camera work, music and editing was OK, just. I also, though a neophyte around all computers, I did see that the computers of NASA and the savant were pretty basic. Certainly not powerful enough to figure out all those complex mathematical formulas needed to stop this weird thing from outer space. Budget again...... All in all this was a film that I hated but at the same time enjoyed in a twisted kind of way. I can see fit to give it a 5/10.

MBunge There's got to be a special section of Hell roped off for the SciFi Channel executives who decided to kill off Mystery Science Theater 3000 in order to foist upon the culture unmitigated rubbish like Quantum Apocalypse. I don't even care how wildly successful they've been at capturing the coveted demographic of "people who get so wasted Friday night they're still practically catatonic Saturday evening and don't have the strength to change the channel". This one cable network has contaminated pop culture by churning out one wretched piece of cheap, sub-amateurish dreck after another until the sci-fi/fantasy genre has begun to stink and ooze like a toxic waste dump. How many of these Saturday night atrocities have now been inflicted on the public? 100? 200? And how many of them have been so bad in every way that you'd rather watch that videotape from The Ring?I mean, this thing is just flat out, straight up, no two ways about it pitiful. Quantum Apocalypse pretty much hits every single note on the SyFy Saturday symphony of suck.Lame special effects that would get laughed at by a 1978 episode of Doctor Who? Check.Cast full of people who look like they were hired right out of line at the DMV? Check.That one guy in the cast who when you see him you think "Hey, I know that guy"? Check and embarrassingly played here by Peter Jurasik, also known as Londo Mollari from Babylon 5. Seriously, Jurasik's appearance here is like a junior league version of Bela Lugosi turning up in an Ed Wood production.That one other person in the cast who seems to have some talent but will have to carry this thing around on her resume for the rest of her life? Check and it's even harder to look at Gigi Edgley try to salvage something out of her one dimensional character and gobledygook dialog than watching Jurasik slum his way to a measly couple of bucks.The piling of one cliché on top of another until you feel like one of those 700 pound shut ins has rolled on top of you? Check.A director who has no idea how to end a scene and barely knows which end of the camera points forward? Check.Budget so low that they can't even afford enough of their bargain basement CGI and must have scene after scene where people just talk about all the terrible things happening off screen? Check.No nudity? Check.Fight scenes more poorly staged than a 3rd grade production of West Side Story? Check.So many unnecessary and extraneous scenes that it's obvious the writer could only come up with 45 minutes of idiotic story and had to pad things out with even stupider and more pointless filler? Check.Unbelievable cop out of a ending? Check and check.What's most offensive about productions like Quantum Apocalypse is that there are low budget filmmakers out there who are busting their humps to make the best flicks they can. Not many of them are great but a surprising number have value both aesthetically and as entertainment. Yet for every one like that, there are 10 soulless voids like this which only exist because some halfwit executive at some pissant cable channel has a slot to fill and can't tell the difference between Spielberg and a homeless guy playing with himself. With the revolutions in production and distribution, we should be living in a new Golden Age of cinema but the truth is we have to tread water like mad just to keep out heads above a raging ocean of crap.Don't be part of the problem. Be part of the solution and don't watch Quantum Apocalypse. Don't let your friends watch it. If you're passing by a video screen and notice Quantum Apocalypse is showing on it, take off your show and throw it through the screen. Yes…it is THAT bad.

clarkandrew Oh where to begin? How about with the title, Quantum Apocalypse? For a start the film makers don't seem to understand what 'Quantum' means.Not a good start.Then there's the mysterious space jelly that somehow moves around on it's own affecting everything in it's path but only when it's facing them.The special effects look as though they were put together by a film student. A bad film student who is currently failing to pass any classes at all. Earth is seen from Mars and looks closer than the Moon! The script is appalling and was probably scribbled onto the back of napkins in between scenes.The acting is terrible and the characters generally unlikeable. 'Rock star' scientists? Give me strength.The autistic guy apparently just watched Rain Man a couple of times and then tried (and failed) to copy Dustin Hoffman.To say this was a disappointment is an understatement, a disappointment is no toy in your Kinder Surprise, this is a crime against humanity.However there is one glimmer of hope. Someone, somewhere gave these morons 2.5 million dollars to create this cr*p and with standards this low we could all try and get the first brain fart we come up with made into a movie. Or just take the money and blow it in Vegas. Let's be honest that would be better as no one else would have to suffer through our creation.Avoid. Go watch Malibu Shark Attack instead, it's dreadful but at least laughably dreadful.