thkalm Being somewhat of a science fiction fanatic, I am usually more tolerant of the problem children of this genre. Not this time, not for this one...This one's script was a horrible mix of copy/pasted ideas with no continuity whatsoever. Exploding suns, meteors, grudge-holding escaped convicts, conspiracies, blown-up monuments, underground cities and a so-called happy ending pulled out of the script-writer's err... hat. Oh, and a porcupine...The only thing missing in this film was any semblance of common sense.Stare at the walls. Watch the grass in your garden grow. Sleep. Anything, as long as you do yourself a favor and skip this one.

parodycollector I've seen many cheesy movies before, but this one takes the cake. It is known that in movies you have to take certain liberties when it comes to science and plausibility to make it work. I got this in a four pack "Sci Fi Collector's Set" from Sam's Club, I wanted to see it because my hometown was shown on fire on the box. I didn't necessarily have high hopes for it, but my God I've seen better effects and acting from elementary school plays.The plot was confusing, with the writer's almost unable to stick to a centralized idea. I didn't even realize this was meant to take place in Australia because of all the holes in that part of the story until I read it here. I've never been to Australia, but the gun laws and lack of death penalty are pretty well known. I don't expect movies, particularly made for TV movies, to be perfect on this kind of stuff, but a little effort of any kind would have helped. In honesty I missed the point of the sub-plot convicted killer, it didn't add anything to the movie.At the end they say "To Be Continued", apparently only the first half was on this particular DVD set, that's fine with me, if the second half is anything like the first, I'd rather not waste my time, I've got access to YouTube and can get more convincing and entertaining movies on it. The only good scene in the entire movie was the destruction of St. Louis, MO. They got that scene looking pretty cool. . .why is it the only somewhat coherent thing in the movie--do they hate St. Louis or something, is that why they took time to make Busch Stadium look like Busch Stadium and the Arch look real, I'll forgive that there are stationary boats including a Casino and a McDonald's boat that apparently knew the meteors were coming as they had moved somehow, and that the bridges that lead from Illinois to St. Louis were also missing, but I find it interesting they got the look of St. Louis fairly accurate, and the rest of the movie looks nothing like the cities they represent. . .Just a terrible movie, terrible acting, I actually got a few laughs which kept it from a one, but I shouldn't be laughing at a destruction of the Earth story. . .

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.

craigman Wow, I feel cheated out of the time I wasted watching this utter garbage. It came on channel 35 (ION) in the middle of a Sunday. That's when I usually get suckered into watching something crappy, I guess, since I was feeling particularly lazy and absolutely nothing good was on the TV. While most of the other reviewers rightly pointed out out how awful this was, I don't think it will become a "cult favorite", like some said. There really is nothing redeeming about this.Why does Luke Perry still get ANY acting jobs? All he does in this is kind of mumble and stumble around. He has the charisma of a turnip, and doesn't even know how to act angry when some killer is trying to kill his annoyingly cute wife and child! I was rooting for the bad guy to kill him. The killer inexplicably only knocks him out! Then his wife has to save him! And poor Tia Carerre. I always thought she was hot looking, but she always seems so cold and sexless on-screen. It's as if she is under orders to never flirt or act sexy, or ever kiss anyone! She is always single and childless as well.The scenes with Peter Fonda and the lone blond woman on the beach were excruciating to watch as well. They are killed in a really stupid manner by a heat-seeking sun-chunk (don't ask). After suffering through about 3 hours to the end, I was hoping the sun would indeed put everyone out of their misery! No such luck, though. Like so many other stupid "disaster" movies and TV shows, there is always a stupid happy ending! The creators never have the stones to actually follow through on their "end of the world" scenario!