Marc Mitchell This is possible the very WORST film I have ever seen!I must confess that I only caught the last 40 minutes of this appallingly dreadful excuse for a SciFi movie. Indeed, I find it astonishing that this film was actually made in 2008; I REALLY didn't think that this kind of unforgivable garbage was still being made. The only reason I continued to watch it until the blissful end was because EVERY scene was hilarious as it just kept getting worse and worse. A bit like one of those songs you absolutely HATE but can't help turning up the radio when you hear it playing again.The acting was amateurish, at best. The science was inexcusably non-existent The plot was predictable and quite clearly a figment of the imagination of someone with absolutely no idea what he/she is talking about The budget for the whole movie must have been infinitesimal The sets were laughable!Two atomic bombs are needed so they just pop along to their local atom bomb storage hut and TWO blokes lift one onto a truck! The same diesel truck that can later be started by swapping out the battery from a small petrol car. Changed, I might add, in about 30 seconds. The alternator, too, was changed in the same time and just happens to fit an enormous 10-ton truck! So what about the starter motor?The wife is driving out in the country and brings the car to a stop and a man holding a gun walks up to the car from nowhere - who only becomes visible when he sticks his hand in the window. So an EMP causes blindness, too?After he and the car get fried, a teenage miracle worker decides that he can resurrect this useless automobile.An EMP is supposed to neutralise all circuitry in its path, right? So how was this boy able to connect a few wires to something or other inside the engine bay of a petrol car and have the same phenomenon charge the battery from a metal rod stuck with gaffer tape to the body of the car? And what about this same dipstick's comment "You don't need a battery to run a car". So where do the HT sparks come from for the plugs?This seems like one of those American movies where they start with an actor/actress for whom they want to find a film - ANY film - so the studio recruits some talentless wannabe scriptwriter to cobble together a pile of rubbish that they all believe the American public will stomach and then try to make money out of it while perpetrating a fraud on their poor, unsuspecting audience.I could go on and on and on and on with this moronic catalogue of idiotic nonsense but what makes the whole thing unforgivable is the assumption that everyone watching this cr&p is stupid.I'm sure that there are some people who would have found this entertaining, for one reason or another, but I feel that the vast majority of people would find this litany of incompetence and hubris an insult to their intelligence.

mark-818-758555 So the premise as other people have stated is that the magnetic poles are destabilising and causing various problems because of an asteroid/comet strike.Well the science is almost complete nonsense in this movie.But before I get to that...I like the fact that the president of the United States only talks to his experts via video conference (in spite of the fact that the communications satellites were fried and there is an almost world wide communications blackout as stated in the movie)...and the total number of people he seems to consult are his main adviser, a scientist who broke the story to the world and his father who is also in the military. I would have thought they would have at least had one or two (or more likely 100) guys from NASA in the meeting! The special effects are lame...for example when James Mayfield's wife and son drive through the town and the crack in the road opens up and swallows the car...the long shots show other cars, buildings and trees...only a few feet away...and none of them are moving...in fact there isn't even enough of a breeze to make the leaves in the trees move! Yet we are led to believe that a twenty foot wide chasm has just opened up! The guy with the pacemaker lived in a town where one of the mini-poles is...seems to survive until he gets in the car with them...then he dies because of the EM pulse! He would have been a goner when the first EM pulse struck not the twentieth! Also she tells them to cut the engine and turn off all electrical stuff...well...I was unaware that switching off the ignition in a car switched off all power! The last time I got in my car, the central locking worked without the engine running...the clock ran on the dashboard...the cigarette lighter worked...you get the idea...essentially you would have to disconnect the battery to switch off all electrical equipment within the car. The jump start of the car is also completely stupid...going against the previous logic in the movie and physics! Then there is the plan to drop a couple of nukes (a cliché in itself) to solve the problem. So they send one plane...and when that doesn't work because the plane is hit by a EM pulse...the answer is not to do as James says...send another one...send twenty...no, the general says no more, come up with another plan! So the other plan is to send the nukes via submarine! OK...rubbish plan for so many reasons. Drop the nukes down in the Marinara Trench...because that would be an easy place to get the nukes into the core right! Wrong again...Can't even be bothered to go into why that is so wrong a suggestion. But they do mention massive tectonic shifts...but no mention of massive world wide earth quakes, tsunamis etc...which would have been triggered...and most of the scenery shown on the various travelogues in the film would have been unrecognisable because of earth quakes, tidal waves, volcano eruptions etc. Come to think of it...why is the sky always pristine blue in this movie? Surely if bad things were happening...there would be huge clouds of dust, acid rain, nuclear style winters with all light blotted out from the ash produced by the erupting volcanoes etc??? I also hate the we're going to die while saving the world...no wait...I have a way out...we'll get into the super heated water vent and get shot to the surface nonsense...no..if you do that...you'll die! And the typical last five minute of a movie fix for everything and then back to normal...is also so unbelievable for such a catastrophic occurrence. And why is there always only one solution available and one set of people able to do it in these sort of films? OK...I know the answer to this...it is to make the movie more exciting and dramatic...well supposedly!IMO the acting is wooden and the story line could have been OK if they'd have got the science right...or taken it way off track (like 2012 extremes)...where you suspend your reality check and just enjoy it for what it is...entertainment. Suggestion to the directors/producers/writers - stop doing this and become more productive members of society!Anyway...give this film a wide berth as it will annoy more than entertain.This review is based on my reality and is my own opinion...which you are more than welcome to disagree with!

dbborroughs The magnetic polars are disturbed and realigned with the result that there is much death and destruction as mankind tries to solve the problem.Not particularly good science fiction film might have worked had their been more money and some better people before and behind the camera. The first problem with the film is that the special effects aren't special. I'm all for the suspension of disbelief but there is a point where it becomes much too hard to disbelieve. Almost every effect in the film is computer generated and since there are so many I don't think the effects crew had any amount of time to do them properly. One or twice or now and again you might have been able to forgive it but the scenes of epic destruction is just asking too much. On the plus side its so bad it distracts you from the uneven performances and the plot holes you could drive a comet through.Clearly I'm at the negative polar on this film and think you should pass.

VomisaCaassi Decent acting and direction. The writing leaves something to be desired but is passable. The special effects were not all that bad.Jack Coleman from Heroes does a decent job of playing a scientist who figures out that the Earth is going through a pole shift due to a comet strike.*Spoiler* Some of the plot points were of course a tad silly. Mainly a diesel sub traveling from Alaska to the Marianas trench to deliver a nuke in less than 2 days. Not to mention some of the science.All in all a formulaic disaster movie touching on all the stereotypical elements. It is passable for entertainment as long as you do not take it too seriously.