Meteor (DVD) > Reviews

Advantages: So bad it's good.
Disadvantages: It's still bad.

With all the fuss surrounding the 1998 box-office clash of 'Armageddon' vs 'Deep Impact', it's easy to forget that Hollywood had covered the 'Giant Asteroid on Collision Course with Earth' premise almost twenty years previously with 'Meteor'. Released in 1979, this was supposedly the disaster movie to end all disaster movies. 'Avalanche' had it's avalanche, 'Earthquake' had it's earthquake, 'Hurricane' had it's tidal-wave but this had a bit of ... Read review

Advantages: 8 pints, a bag of chips, your mates...it'll be fun
Disadvantages: everything ever

...his handling of this abomination. A meteor is on a collision course with Earth, and all the world's most highly paid actors have to settle their differences in order to collaborate and find a way of destroying it. Well, kind of, the twist being that the US and Russia have to admit to having nuclear defences in space, and then combine those weapons and team up against that bad rock. You can tell it's bad because it has a laughter inducing 'theme' ... Read review

Advantages: Good to watch while chilling out with a beer
Disadvantages: Slow film and a bit cheesey

...turn his platform towards the meteor and use it to save the world. As luck would have the military are not too pleased with this and the animosity between scientist and military shows through. This only gets worse when Dr Bradley works out that there is not enough power in the platform's nuclear missiles to destroy the meteor and he suggests that the US contacts Russia so their platform called " Peter The Great" can also be used. What makes the ... Read review

Advantages: Funny unfortunately, good for star watchers
Disadvantages: Badly made, poor effects.

...end you're hoping that the meteor will infact be a full extinction event! Good tsunami sequence though. ... Read review