Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

golt-32-251449 This disaster could not have been made accidentally. A few highlights: Rutger Hauer, a long way from Blade Runner days, plays the (first German) President of the United States, and in a televised address announcing the upcoming nuking of LA, says " bla bla bla of globally importance ..." But a lack of editing was a symptom, not a cause. Imagine a Pavarotti doppelganger and his daughter as the smartest scientists in the world who work out their father daughter issues slowly while the clock ticks on the world. Seal team 6.1 comprised of goofy guy, horny guy, tech guy, tough guy and family guy all commanded by somewhat Asian guy who needs to rescue his very Anglo looking daughter in the middle of stopping Armageddon, complete with tears, hugs, reproaches, fistfights and sighs, pervert kidnapping, and every other cinematic cliché they could work in, all while running around with a nuke in a sports bag. I was left in wonder of it all. I am still laughing. I can't believe I watched the whole thing? Rutger Hauer in that? What happened to you man?

stumpmee77 This movie was billed to be EARTH IN DANGER. After this team embarks on their mission, there's two minor tremors (where I don't see so much as a street lamp keel over), very scary scene in a tunnel and other than that not a hint of additional disasters–anywhere. For the last hr fifteen minutes of film. The plate shift moves ever closer to that 44 centimeters mark were were informed mankind's doomed, at the end stops at 35–and until the bombs are set off all stays as quiet as a emptied parking lot.I started watching this after seeing footage of devastation in the film's first 25 minutes thinking there's going to more, even it if was CGI or old archive stuff there would be more chaos--BUT I got instead was boring by the numbers human drama–Hey this is not the Hallmark Channel; I was baited and then the emphasis of the movie switched--and I am still livid over it! The (young) daughter subplot was good because both characters were somewhat likable while the scientists father daughter subplot reeked--I hated the scientist daughter. But neither one didn't need to be in this storyline cause they pull away from the supposed terror of the Earth on verge of disaster. Instead the Earth gets final billing. And testing was the cause of this why lob another bomb into Earth's precarious underground–and why Earthquake prone California in all places. And nukes–What about planting food, the radiation spreading to other states–Even ID4 had a higher degree of reality in terms of nukes there were someone protested using them and the President hedged.I rate it 1 for the 2 prayer scenes, John Rhys-Davies and Mark Dacascos

Ray Humphries I am giving this flick a "2" because it is not the worst Sci Fi Channel movie I have ever seen.That classification is reserved for one of those hand-puppet, creature features called "Centipede".The plot of "Scorcher" is unreal, the script inane, the acting bland, and the casting just unbelievable. No matter what one might think of Ruger Hauer as an actor, he does not look nor sound much like a native born American, which some, but apparently not the producers of this disaster of a disaster movie, know the President must be.All these deals seem to have one thing in common. A tension building disaster timer, in this case the plate movement toward the critical 44 cm mark. I get that. What I don't get is the fact that the script then has the cast sitting around whining, BSing, cracking jokes, whispering sweet nothings, while the clock counts down toward the end of the world.OH! and 12 minutes to get out of the tunnel, find your plane (not to worry about the rest of your team), take off and get out of range of a 15 megaton nuke. Gimme a break! Oops, my bad. I didn't have to watch.

steve3803 Don't waste your time on this boring movie. You would be better entertained watching TV commercials. The actors performances are jerky, forced, totally unbelievable. Special effects rate a zero. Sci Fi factor is zero. Ditto on action sequences. No decent humor. Plot, kind of. What value does this movie have? I can't find any. I'm taking this time to spare you a wasted time. Following is a repeat of above text because I've already said it all, but IMDb rules require 10 lines of text before a review can be submitted: Don't waste your time on this boring movie. You would be better entertained watching TV commercials. The actors performances are jerky, forced, totally unbelievable. Special effects rate a zero. Sci Fi factor is zero. Ditto on action sequences. No decent humor. Plot, kind of. What value does this movie have? I can't find any. I'm taking this time to spare you a wasted time.