Meteor Apocalypse (2010)

So much average

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Bad acting, bad scripting, bad editing. Can't get any badder than that.

My uncle and I watched the film and I liked it a lot more than he did. I felt it merited a 3 because....well....I've seen worse. He felt a 2 was being generous. Either way, these are not glowing endorsements.The film begins with all the countries of the Earth launching their nukes into space at an oncoming meteor. However, the explosion only fragments it into many still big meteors that are STILL on a collision course with the planet. Oops. Now so far, this isn't a bad idea for a film. BUT, what happens next makes zero sense--when one of the meteors hits Lake Meade, it infects the water supply and people drinking it go into convulsions and die! Most of the rest of the film consists of a man trying to find his way back to his family from which he was separated. Unfortunately, most of his adventures are pretty dull. Not wretched...but not good.Oddly, when I saw this listed on Netflix and IMDb, Claudia Christian (from "Babylon 5" is listed second in the credits--yet she's only in the first and last 5 minutes of the film.

Strange how there are so many really bad disaster movies around. "Meteor Apocalypse" ranks right up there with the bad ones.Initially, I had no expectations to the movie, and rightly so, otherwise I would be sorely disappointed.The story of this movie is ridiculous and often incoherent. There are so many things and scenes that does not make sense and just makes go "alrighty then..." I am sure the director meant well enough with his movie, but it just didn't come together as a greater unity. "Meteor Apocalypse" was doomed right from the very first minute, already there it was incoherent and downright stupid.The CGI effects in "Meteor Apocalypse" are bad, though not the worst I have seen, so that got to count for some, at least.Some might find it enjoyable if you got nothing better to do, and just want some mindless way to pass an hour and a half. Expect nothing from this movie, and disable your brain if you are going to watch this movie.The plus in this movie is that not all of the acting is all that crappy.Sad that so many disaster movies are well-intended, but fail to deliver.

Can't defend the script or the dialog, but much of the acting in this sci-fi disaster flick is first- rate, especially if you watch the special features and realize they shot this thing in only 12 days. Joe Lando and Cooper Harris, in particular, do exceptional work under what must have been trying conditions. Lando brings a real sense of desperation and urgency and Harris is compelling as a lost soul along for the ride. They even manage to make some of the horrendous dialog sound human and real. It's a shame they didn't have a better script to work with, but they and one or two others in the cast are well worth watching.