MegaFault (2009)

Just perfect...

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

I watched the "Special Director's cut" a film cut by the special director. It is nice to know that the world is going to end because of a guy named "Boomer" (Eriq La Salle) who likes to blow things up. A megafault is created and only world renown seismologist Brittany Murphy can save the world...or reunite with her family instead.The movie uses CG graphics for the special effects.This film is no different than other Asylum/ SyFy disaster films which all have the same basic plot. This one was not as much fun as some of the other ones, except for the fact Brittany Murphy is the most unconvincing scientist I have ever seen.It is also nice to know that when an earthquake happens, you do the same thing as when Russian missiles attack... get under the table. Whatever happened to standing in the doorway?Tough to sit through

I'm a sucker for disaster movies. It's a genre that is wildly entertaining, even if the movie doesn't have the best character development, dialogue, or even realistic science. But at a certain point, as was reached with Megafault, you hit rock bottom.Bad dialogue, bad acting, a ridiculous plot, garbage science, bad special effects, and almost non existent direction kill any chance that this movie had of even being marginally entertaining. The, "Action," scenes are tedious and boring. A vast majority of the action sequences in Megafault drag on far too long, and repeat themselves over and over again until the sequence mercifully comes to an end.The plot and resolution to the movie are absurd, and one wonders just how quickly this script was written, and with how little care. No wonder the main cast phoned in their performances. At least they got paid (not enough, I'm sure, but they did get paid). Hilariously, the incidental characters are played less convincingly than some of the worst voice actors dubbing Godzilla movies play their characters.Yep, Megafault is Megabad. It's not terribly surprising given the production companies involved (Asylum/SyFy), but a better movie was there to be made if the producers and writers had cared enough to make it. They could have come up with a passable script and made a movie that was cheesy but entertaining, but they didn't even clear that bar. If you're on the fence about watching this one because you enjoy disaster movies, skip it. It's not that far removed from what Ed Wood would have done given this level of filmmaking technology. On the other hand, if you enjoy truly bad movies like some people do, give it a spin.

This ticked all of the boxes for me, because I love a good (aka bad) B grade disaster movie. This was SO bad that I've given it 9 out of 10 for sheer balls on being so utterly awful. It's so bad it's impossible to walk away, well, OK, not impossible, not even difficult, but it's worth sticking with it to embrace HOW UTTERLY DREADFUL this movie is.The acting is diabolical, the plot line is so implausible my head nearly exploded, the special effects are, well, crap, so therefore this is RIGHT UP THERE in my top 3 utterly awful, yet awesome crap disaster movies.The first time I watched it I fell asleep, but last night I watched it again and OMG, I can't believe the awesome dreadfulness I missed out on that first time. Whatever you do, watch it from start to finish, but I'd suggest that you have a lot of tequila, and a whole bunch of snacks on hand, because this is a doozy.I've watched hundreds and hundreds of awful movies in my time, but this one just had me hooked from the first moment in its sheer badness. Trust me - don't miss a moment of it. It's record-breaking.

The concept did seem good on paper, but potential is ruined by terrible execution. The film is badly made, with static camera shots and some of the laziest both in how they look and how they are used effects I've seen in a film recently.The dialogue just increasingly gets inane, the story is repetitive and dull with a predictable ending and the characters throughout act like idiots. The direction furthermore is a mess and the pace is uneven and meandering.The acting despite how talented the cast are is not good at all. Brittany Murphy, she was beautiful, she was talented, sadly she has a poor character and script to work from, so at the end of the day it's all wasted talent.Overall, terrible. SyFy have done worse, but that's not really a consolation considering how poor an effort this is. 1/10 Bethany Cox