Tedfoldol
everything you have heard about this movie is true.
PiraBit
if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
Kaydan Christian
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
HS Rivney
At first it seemed like a good plot but as it grew deeper it became more incredulous. People walking on the edge of craters and touching rocks in the center - sorry, the heat and radiation would kill you before you got close enough to see it.The brown dwarf - NOT. A brown dwarf http://bit.ly/2gXA6P6 is not a dead star. It's a wanna-be star that isn't big enough, like an extra big Jupiter. There's a lot of technobabble but I suppose most non- science people would just be swept in the smoke screen.The DIALOGUE is wholly unrealistic. I feel badly for the actors that had to say those lines. The females had the worst dialogue. No one ever says things like "large enough to destroy a large metropolitan city". You say big enough to blow up New York!"The backstory was forced onto the viewers so quickly it made my head spin. Again, it was a worse situation for the females than the males. We know that our heroine just started her job only 6 months earlier and is now getting a 'bonanza' (a meteor shower). Not only was it irrelevant, completely irrelevant, it was forced and phony.Character names were poorly chosen. Not going into that. ON THE OTHER HAND, the acting was pretty good given what they had to work with. This has all the characteristics of a made-for-TV movie drama; don't expect 2001: ASO.I'm a science fiction writer and I go to great lengths to back up my technobabble with science, not fiction. If you just want something to watch, DJE is always worth tuning in for, but if you are hard core SciFi, you're going to find all kinds of things to complain about. I've seen worse (and better).
bowmanblue
Impact is basically a 'disaster movie' but on television (Think 'a Michael Bay film, but without the budget or stars). An asteroid has only gone and knocked the moon out of orbit and now our former lunar buddy is on a collision course for Earth, dooming the lot of us.But don't worry, seeing as Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck were unavailable to fly up there and blow it out of the stars, we have a team of international boffins who will come up with something to save us all. In the end they simply must have watched Armageddon, as they decide to fly up there and blow it up (just with worse special effects).Most people could probably put aside the slightly dubious special effects and lack of big-name actors and give Impact a chance. However, its main problem is simply its lack of originality. Even if you do leave out the dodgy scientific theories behind the scenario, what you have here is one disaster movie cliché after another. The dialogue is horrendous and even when the action does pick up a bit and focus on the (slightly) more interesting characters, it keeps hopping back to some severely boring ones (aka their various families, who all happen to have put themselves in perilous danger at the same time).I was never that much of a fan of Armageddon. I found it too over-the-top and daft to really enjoy properly. However, after watching Impact, give me Steve Tyler's 'I Don't Want to Miss a Thing' any day.
elliott78212
Its a cocktail of movies what if you mixed Armageddon, Deep Impact and split the moon the result would be this fun day of destruction mini series...heck I even bought the DVD. I enjoyed this very much its not your run of the mill disaster flick nope its not that at all so many cliché's mixed in and some turned on their heads. Natasha Henstridge is beautiful and just talented enough to pull this off mix in David James Elliott and James Cromwell as a grieving grandpa and you have a movie with family values, including a few tear jerking moments. The VFX are good enough for a TV Movie even if the plot leaves you in suspended belief but hey thats what these movies are about What If? I enjoyed it more than Category 7 a must of disaster film fans.
rbnn
This made-for-TV flick is distinguished by some epic bad acting, ridiculous plot, absurd directing, and a cringe-worthy script.Two things were good about the movie.First, the cinematography is professional for a TV movie.Second, the movie is so horrible that I did not feel guilty about turning it off partway through, so I did not waste too much time.The plot from what I saw appeared to violate most laws of physics and common sense. The acting features a hilarious scientist who looks and talks like she failed sixth-grade science and never took another course in the area. The director puts in a lot of crowd reaction shots in which each member has the same astonished expression. Also, great attention seems to have been paid to the actors' hairstyles. Too bad less so to the rest of the film.
