Evengyny
Thanks for the memories!
Comwayon
A Disappointing Continuation
BallWubba
Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.
Culmen Ation
This is probably the first and last time anyone will say this, but... Futurama portrayed this subject matter much more realistically. The premise is that something hit the earth so hard it stopped spinning.The episode "That Darn Katz"on Futurama had a similar premise. Except... having cats stealing the earth's rotational energy make a heck of a lot more sense. It neatly explains where all the earth's rotational energy is going. It acknowledges that a planet abruptly stopping will have catastrophic effects on the things on said planet. Likewise it also explains where the energy to get a planet spinning again comes from. That's even ignoring the fact the earth probably wouldn't have survived the impact in the first place (another problem Futurama side steps).Every time a character opens his mouth he/she speaks just enough to inform everyone in the audience "Hi! I don't actually know a single thing about what I'm talking about"I just don't know what was going through the writers heads!Take the convenient Deus Ex Machina energy ripples that start appearing? WHY? How does the earth stopping cause those? Why are their tendrils attracted to bit part characters and vehicles? Why do they appear only when there are characters about? No one really attempts to explain these things.And the sad thing is that a lot of this could have been easily avoided. Just say "The meteor is some kind of beacon for an alien invasion" and just jettison the whole earth stop spinning thing. Solves 50% of the plot holes, explains those energy ribbon things, also explains how a couple of satellites can stop it. You can solve another 25% of the plot hole by introducing the concept of alien possession, with the aliens unaccustomed to our existence. Which explains FBI agents acting like utter morons, for example, attempting to stop a transmission by whacking the satellite dish on the side and base of the dish part... rather than.. i don't know, whacking the vulnerable bit on the tip. Still leaves 25% of the plot hole generated by outright character stupidity.This would have made this movie a below average alien invasion flick, rather than an abysmal disaster flick. In all, pay attention to the writers of this flick, so you what movies to avoid.
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.
TheDeanster
Just don't! I don't know who gave it this may stars, but they shouldn't be allowed to vote. I hate to sound rash, but I had to write this review because of this. There are people that actually would of watched this travesty because of the high star-rating. Please IMDb watch this movie and you be the judge of this misrepresentation of a review, a complete abomination. I understand that it's someone's opinion, but really!! I mean a 7.9 star rating that is sent out in the public, shouldn't never been an issue. That is saying that this movie out does some great movies that do not have this high of a rating. "If the highlight of a movie is the credits, then don't give it credit"
padron702
There are so many things wrong with this movie, where to start.People with a soccer ball size hole in their chest tend to not be able to talk.Synopsis : Neutron star particle large enough and dense enough to go thru the entire earth damage our magnetosphere and stop the planet from rotating bringing on global extinction.Given the current state of astrophysics the existence of such a particle is theoretically possible but that it would cause the type of damage to our planet is not even remotely possible.Given the mass of the earth and it's sheer inertia it would take a lot more than a single particle no matter how dense to counteract that force.Then there are those rays of solar radiation that seem to make it thru the magnetosphere and slice across the earth, hitting anything with a badge when they are about to arrest the well meaning hacker teenager who only wants to expose the big evil government plot to not tell people of the impending doom.Luckily those rays don't go after the hackers dad who happens to be one of the a fore mentioned badge wearer of the Federal variety, and work together with the well meaning scientific geek'ete agent of the same variety to find a fix.All they have to do is restore the magnetosphere and push start the earths spin with two satellites... peace of cake.Enter scientist who saw the error of his ways after creating a dooms day device that will now be just the ticket to fix this sticky situation.Good thing that the scientist even while being under arrest was able to hack into the system and have his 'device' moved from a guarded warehouse to some other location.So the evil Federal agents are trying to get the device back and how do they do that.. well they shoot at the only people who know where it is.. and shockingly the scientist is shot and killed. Luckily he is able to tell his group of do-gooders the GPS coordinates of the 'Device' and some other cryptic mumbling...So the big ending battle, bad feds vs good ( scientist-geek'ete/hacker-teen/agent-Dad ) for control of the device ( satellites ). Good guys want to save the world, bad guys want to save a small section so that they can create a small green zone of safety and screw the planet nearly 7 billion people.Good thing that a non technical federal field agent could find the two wires that would make the satellite up-link work. Phew! Close one.Save the planet, save a handful of people... decisions decisions.. Funny how all the people going after the good guys would be dead if they succeed. I guess that little point went unnoticed. Silly mindless Federal agents.But once again the suns radiation comes to the rescue and smote those evil doers. Good ol' solar radiation. But it misses the main evil agent, dang it. So he manages to shoot the nice geek'ete and begins to smash the up-link. Silly evil agent didn't count on agent-dad kicking his butt, not to mention that the solar radiation always gets it's man. Poof, no more evil agent. The planet is saved and all is good. Miller time.
