Stonehenge Apocalypse (2010)

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Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Admirable film.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

I wouldn't in all good conscience give it more than a 4 out of 10, because in many ways it is awful, though it's probably better than Apocalypse Pompeii (starring Pete's Highlander cast-mate Adrian Paul).Peter acts with quiet dignity and is very believable in his role.With a decent budget this might have been a Da Vinci Code, mind you that was awful as well. Watch if you have 110 mins to spare in your life.

I'm happy that this movie has not disproved my theory. The theory is that with the possible exception of 2001, there never has been a decent science fiction movie. This is as bad as most of them. Actually I was planning on a 5 vote until the va-va-varoom-bang-bang-I-missed car chase/gun fight. That bumped it down to a 4. Then when I found out that it was shot in British Columbia but set in Maine (!!!)I dropped it again to a still overly generous 3. What we have here is essentially a "Hey gang, let's save the planet" movie with a simplistic, cliché ridden, illogical, predictable plot and stock cardboard characters. Hey... That hard-ass American general was a classic. But he must have been a really important dude because he made all the life and death decisions in Great Britain. I suppose watching it was better than standing out in the snowstorm that raged outside. But not much.

Not only was the story and acting awful, the special effects brought the movie to sub-campy levels. Once again Hollywood tried to capitalize on the mystique of Stonehenge and come up lacking. The dwarfs dancing around the 18" high triptychs in "This is Spinal Tap" was more believable than the Styrofoam mock-ups obviously created by a 3rd grade art class. I particularly liked the left-hand drive vehicles supposedly used by the Royal Army in Salisbury. Please take a pass on this waste of time - you'll regret wasting these precious minutes of your life. There are so many glaring errors of omission, ignorance and historical facts that they are too numerous to list here: Let me try: The bomb dropped (although a missile is fired) was not a nuke, but a laser guided bomb; the position of Stonehenge moved several times on the idiotic map continually shown, all physics were suspended when traveling to and fro across the Atlantic--the time involved is unachievable even if the phantom aircraft were magically available. This movie sucks.

I can't believe some of the reviews on this.If you are watching this film for anything other than comedy value, what happens when you watch a really good film? Does your head explode?The accents were awful. The acting was worse. the science was shonky. The locations were abysmal. An earlier reviewer stated that they thought they paid attention to the little details. Really? Salisbury Plain in the middle of a forest with mountains in the background. Supposedly British army units in Hummers and some weird hybrid German/Jeep thing. Damn hilarious though!