Asteroid

Rating:
Summary: Dramatic...
Review: Oh, I believe the last time that I've seen this movie was sometime in 1996. It was an ABC home movie, so I went and watched it. I considered these disaster movies for television " sappy" because the computer generated effects always seemed... off. However, if I remembered correctly, there are quite a few dramatic moments, like a little boy stranded and rescued in a collapsed building, threatening to slide off the hill and into the ground zero crater that the asteroid made. Ah, yes. I remembered it now. The story was that a female astrologist had spotted a large asteroid that could potentially damage Earth's surface. A bomb was sent up to blast the asteroid apart. Only to find the remaining little bits come slamming into Earth. What's worse, there's an even larger one following behind. What will happen? Well, rent it and watch it yourself. Personally, I think it's a good representation of reality, and as most of these tv flicks would do, they try and focus on the emotional side of the human spectrum and how we react to these "doomed" moments. (Probably a way to save money for spectacular special effects, maybe?!) But considering that this movie was a few years old, the CGI imagery would not be as advanced as today. So I would say it's acceptable. But still a good flick. A few more modern representations would be Deep Impact or Armageddon. But watch this one first. You may not like this one so much after you've seen the other two.

Rating:
Summary: Dramatic...
Review: Oh, I believe the last time that I've seen this movie was sometime in 1996. It was an ABC home movie, so I went and watched it. I considered these disaster movies for television " sappy" because the computer generated effects always seemed... off. However, if I remembered correctly, there are quite a few dramatic moments, like a little boy stranded and rescued in a collapsed building, threatening to slide off the hill and into the ground zero crater that the asteroid made. Ah, yes. I remembered it now. The story was that a female astrologist had spotted a large asteroid that could potentially damage Earth's surface. A bomb was sent up to blast the asteroid apart. Only to find the remaining little bits come slamming into Earth. What's worse, there's an even larger one following behind. What will happen? Well, rent it and watch it yourself. Personally, I think it's a good representation of reality, and as most of these tv flicks would do, they try and focus on the emotional side of the human spectrum and how we react to these "doomed" moments. (Probably a way to save money for spectacular special effects, maybe?!) But considering that this movie was a few years old, the CGI imagery would not be as advanced as today. So I would say it's acceptable. But still a good flick. A few more modern representations would be Deep Impact or Armageddon. But watch this one first. You may not like this one so much after you've seen the other two.

Rating:
Summary: Dramatic...
Review: Oh, I believe the last time that I've seen this movie was sometime in 1998. It was an ABC home movie, so I went and watched it. I considered these disaster movies for television " sappy" because the computer generated effects always seemed... off. However, if I remembered correctly, there are quite a few dramatic moments, like a little boy stranded and rescued in a collapsed building, threatening to slide off the hill and into the ground zero crater that the asteroid made. Ah, yes. I remembered it now. The story was that a female astrologist had spotted a large asteroid that could potentially damage Earth's surface. A bomb was sent up to blast the asteroid apart. Only to find the remaining little bits come slamming into Earth. What's worse, there's an even larger one following behind. What will happen? Well, rent it and watch it yourself. Personally, I think it's a good representation of reality, and as most of these tv flicks would do, they try and focus on the emotional side of the human spectrum and how we react to these "doomed" moments. (Probably a way to save money for spectacular special effects, maybe?!) But considering that this movie was 2 years old, the CGI imagery would not be as advanced as today. So I would say it's acceptable. But still a good flick. A few more modern representations would be Deep Impact or Armageddon. But watch this one first. You may not like this one so much after you've seen the other two.

Rating:
Summary: The End Of The World... Again.
Review: OK this ain't 'Armagedon' or 'Deep Impact' but it's still watchable and will surely have viewers eager to stick around until the very end.
From the producer of 'Predator," Waterworld" and "Daylight" comes this action-thriller about a massive asteroid on a deadly collision course with our planet. Originally shown as mini-series on T.V.

Rating:
Summary: The End Of The World... Again.
Review: OK this ain't 'Armagedon' or 'Deep Impact' but it's still watchable and will surely have viewers eager to stick around until the very end.
From the producer of 'Predator," Waterworld" and "Daylight" comes this action-thriller about a massive asteroid on a deadly collision course with our planet. Originally shown as mini-series on T.V.

Rating:
Summary: Good
Review: Okay so this movie doesn't run up to movies liek deep Impact and Armageddon, but it deserves some praise for 100% its own special effects. The plot might be a bit off wack but the special effects are what makes this movie great. Another good thing about this movie is you actually get to see some other American cities get walloped. In this movie Kansas City, Missouri, Billings, montana and Dallas, Texas get a chance. Pretty good movie.

Rating:
Summary: Bad?
Review: Redaing all the reviews I was really disapointed when I read some of the reviews from other viewers. This movie was great. There are lots of special effects and explosions. At the beginning of the movie a man is driving a truck in Billings, Montana when meteor hits the road and the truck explodes. The next day a chopper flies over Montana and see's that there is a house on fire. The people in the Chopper rescue them and then a Propane Tank explodes! My favourite part in this movie is when an Asteroid hits a dam in Kansas City and sends water tearing through the city. Then the grand final happens when two planes blow up the earth threatening asteroid. After everyone celebrates the lady who found the asteroid finds out that the lasers blew the asteroid into tiny pieces. Several small pieces and a large one are heading straight for earth. As the discoverer of the rock went to NASA in Houston she left her Dad and her Son back in Dallas. Soon a couple of asteroids hit Dallas and then the big one hits. It blows up Dallas and obliterates it. The rest of the movie is pretty much finding a lsot boy and his grandpa. So all in all I thought that this movie was C O O L !!

Rating:
Summary: General TV drevel disater film
Review: The female ASTRONOMER! sees asteroid. Astronomer figures out it will impact the earth. Need I say more.

Barf inducting effects, shallow characers(with the exception of Mike B.), cheezy plot, and really BAD ACTING! But what can one expect from the networks. One star is being nice! Dont waste your time, see Meteor or Armageddon.

Rating:
Summary: An Asteroid! Earth will be destroyed! Or probably not....
Review: This is a pretty good movie, and a pretty good disaster movie, and suffers chiefly in comparison with Armageddon and Deep Impact, which had the advantages of higher budgets and vastly advanced special effects. For its time, though, it is pretty good!

As is the case with most of the disaster genre of film, the story focuses on a few individuals, families with victims in the main disaster zones. The movie spends as much time following them and their interrelationships as it does on the disasters.

The Asteroid chunks come in two main clusters, the first of which is a virtual non-event (a dam is burst, and sections of Kansas City are flooded). But the second asteroid-fall is a doozy, demolishing most of Dallas with some reasonable special effects and some very well done rubble.

As is so often the case with disaster films, though, the movie misses out on wider aspects of the disaster. We here cursory reports of a Peruvian apartment building and what not which are impacted, but the movie concentrates exclusively on events in Missouri, Colorado, and ultimately Texas. By anything the movie shows, the disaster is local rather than worldwide in impact. A broader view would definitely increase its effectiveness.

Still, recommended for watching, particularly if you like the genre.

Rating:
Summary: Bad?
Review: Well, it would've been worse if this had been a theatrical movie instead of a TV miniseries...on TV, you just lost your valuable time. Think what it would've been like to have paid eight bucks to see it!

One aspect of this failure of a movie has been overlooked, and that is the unsuitability for children. There was just too much of the one kid in peril. That scene would give any kid nightmares.

By the way, I did see this on TV the first time around, and I do think it was a bit more enjoyable...there were commercial breaks and quite a few of the commercials were more entertaining than the movie.

(Hey, I'm getting mean here. LOL)