implaxible
Never mind the plot and acting... I don't even have to talk about them.This is seriously the most nausea-inducing movie I've ever seen, and it's all due to the shaky-cam. I actually had to look away during several of the scenes and those include the set-bound "office" shots. And don't even try to follow any of the flight or flight scenes.The other irritating thing is the score. You know how for the main menu on a DVD the music plays on a loop? Well, get used to it. This soundtrack consists literally of one blaring chord, which just gets louder as things get more "dangerous".The main character was not too bad as an actor, and Bruce Davison did what he could. The girlfriend was one of the worst I'd ever seen, smiling through every single line, as much as Denise Richards in Starship Troopers. Can you believe two people in this film were in the X-Men movies?
stephen-hoyland
Okay, so I'm not known to be over-generous with my comments but this film promised much but never delivered! My incredulity was stretched to the limit within the first couple of minutes - a small piece of 'white hole debris' hits Earth and 'coincidentally' strikes the very scientist who's been searching for It!! Then, this stuff having made a hole In his chest the size of a Soccer ball, he manages to speak a couple of lines before he dies - despite the fact that his heart and lungs are clearly gone! Now,this debris has caused the Earth to stop rotating, slowing down over the next few hours until It will eventually stop altogether - bad news for all as the end of the world Is here! As the earth slows, a kind of 'fire-lightening' caused by cosmic rays getting through the emerging gaps In the Earths magnetic field, begin to strike people - but not members of the random public,It appears - just nasty FBI men and other baddies In the movie!(That Is, except the FBI man who helps his son to save the Earth!) I appreciate Science-based movies which respect the limits and possibilities of physics, and after all,quantum Physics and string theory are weird and amazing enough to fuel science-fiction films to the end of time,but this one Is just plain silly. Not once do we see whats going on In other parts of the world or even on the streets of the US - It seems that only the main characters are witnessing and\or suffering from the Earth-slowing effects. A terrible script - much more could have been done with the subject matter - and where the nearly £2 million budget went I could'n't say. What I will say Is -give It a miss.
realdealblues
I don't understand why so many people post negative reviews on some of these SyFy Channel movies. These movies aren't made to be blockbusters. I don't take any of them seriously. They're meant to be entertaining, and more often than not, "mindless" entertainment that you can often sit back and have a few laughs with on a Saturday or Sunday evening.Unlike many reviewers, I actually "enjoy" watching SyFy Channel movies. Knowing how cheaply they are made and how far out some of them are makes them all the more entertaining. That being said, some are still better than others. Quiet a few of the newer ones have been very enjoyable to me, and this one was no exception.It's science fiction, not science fact and I was entertained for an hour and a half. I won't go into the plot as you can read that under the main page, but if you like watching SyFy Channel Disaster movies like myself, than you will probably feel it was time well spent. If you don't like "out there" plot lines, low budget effects and some bad acting then don't watch it and stick with "Hollywood" style films.
nutty_but_nice
I passed over watching this movie for a while because the plot seemed a bit ridiculous. Today I saw I looked it up on here and it gave a rating of 7.8 stars. I thought, "hey, maybe it's better than it seems." Guess what...nope. I could only watch the first 20 minutes before I had to shut it off. The acting and dialogue are appalling. The script is a mess. I cannot believe anyway wasted money making this. I would suggest you don't bother. Apparently I did't type enough, so I suppose I'll go on to say that there didn't seem to be much of a hook to the story. I was not drawn in at all. I wish I could say there was a saving grace, but there wasn't one. It's just a jumbled mess, from the script to the acting to CGI to the character development...and so on. I love sci-fi (not SyFy). BTW, whomever changed the name to SyFy should be smacked. Anyway, have a good day.