Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Nonureva Really Surprised!

MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

writethomas49 I'm sorry the science is bad. I'm sorry it wasn't filmed in Australia and they got a lot of accents and details wrong. I'm sorry some people don't think much of the acting.But I really enjoyed the scenery. It was well photographed. The acting was decent and the women were nice to watch. All in all, It was a pleasant flick to spend a rainy afternoon on.

surge9000 The Sun suddenly going supernova... hmmm... all life on earth would be completely extinct for about 1000 different reasons by the time it even got close to doing so. The whole concept is completely flawed. If the film had been portrayed intelligently in pieces over a few million years, maybe it might have worked.I'd go so far as to put a "R"/"XXX" rating on this if I could: do not let anyone under 21 see it - it is detrimental to their intelligence, and unlike old 1940s & 50s B films (which are equally as stupid these days), we now know FAR more. What gave these old films their charm was that they didn't know any better at the time, and to their credit, the writers/directors/whatever were trying to push the boundaries and encourage budding new thought.As always, making an obviously idiotic film like this is just retarded and lazy.

Ronald Purviance I actually stopped watching this movie about an hour in. I think I will wait for the Mystery Science Theater version. I don't know what I can say about this movie that is positive. It was nice to see Emma Samms, still looking hot. I did like the blond bartenders outlook, doesn't matter what happens next, only what you are doing now. And I do remember some of my college astronomy, enough to know our sun wouldn't supernova. I could have at least over looked that if the whole thing had been presented better. I don't understand why the subplot about the murderer either, total waste of time. Maybe a re-edit might help, but I doubt it.Oh well, at least I didn't buy it!

ccm043 The sun is about to go supernova, and everyone on Earth will die. Sounds exciting right? Uh, not really. The plot starts when a brilliant astrophysicist (Peter Fonda) makes calculations showing that the sun will explode in one week. But the government doesn't want anybody to know, so they capture several other astrophysicists who know about the disaster, including a guy who just wants to get back to his family (Luke Perry). Taken into custody by a government agent (Tia Carrere) and a military commander (Lanice Henriksen), he has to find some way to get back to his family before a serial killer escapes and gets to his wife and daughter. Meanwhile, the world goes to hell in a hand-basket as whole cities and rural areas get bombarded by plasma. Oh yeah, and something about a television reporter and a lab assistant who's worried about her boyfriend. The first problem with this movie is that it is a made-for-television miniseries for the Hallmark Channel. That isn't automatically a recipe for disaster, but made-for-TV movies have gone downhill in the past few years. The fact that it's a miniseries is surprising. At most, this should have been a two hour Sci-Fi original movie. Yet making it a two part movie means that the producers have to fill out 3 hours of material. The result is a movie that feels padded with way too many characters and subplots. The second problem is the acting. Luke Perry is the main character, but he does little with it. He has the same expression and tone of voice the entire movie. It feels forced when he's trying to be morally superior to the military forces he's with. Tia Carrere is a little better as the government agent, but she still comes across as one-note and clichéd. And this is Peter Frigging Fonda for crying out loud. Can't you get him to do something other than blurt out some scientific gobbledygook and sip pina colladas? The plot goes nowhere. The first half of the movie is nothing but people talking, talking, talking, talking, and talking. And in between the talking you get a pointless chase scene, a ludicrous escape attempt from one of the "Phoenix" facilities, a blink-and-you'll-miss-it (literally) destruction of the Eiffel Tower, and several minor explosions. There are a few good scenes at the end of the first half. The serial killer plot thread finally develops (in one of the most absurd scenes of the movie it's almost funny), Luke Perry finds himself in a bit of a Twilight Zone situation, and we finally get to see some big explosions as a major city is destroyed. Still, you have to wait an hour and a half for any of this. The second half isn't much better. One of the more compelling scenes involves people checking their math. I kid you not.Probably the worst part of this movie is the central premise. You can't stop a supernova, and you can't escape it. There are two possibilities: the sun explodes and kills everybody or it doesn't. So where does the tension come from? Answer: The many subplots the characters are involved in. For all of the flaws of "Armageddon", at least the people involved can do something about the problem. "Hey, maybe we can chuck a nuclear bomb into an asteroid," is much more compelling than "Hey, maybe we got the calculations wrong."Simply avoid this movie, unless you happen to come across it and you have nothing better to do, like watching "Lake Placid 2".