The acting was pretty good. The plot was... spotty... at best. Too bad they completely ignored reality. The premise COULD have generated a decent movie.
Meteor shower - a football-size meteorite lands in the lead actor's back yard. Purely by chance. It shows an angle of impact that would have gone through his house... and the meteorite only buries itself about 6 inches into the ground? And it's cool enough to handle within a couple minutes? 17,000 mph - and only 6 inches penetration!?
Throughout the movie, people hear meteorites coming - despite the fact that they're moving at 20x the speed of sound.
There just happens to be a rocket sitting around, fueled up and ready to go to save the world. At a college science fair.
The "planet killer" meteor is inbound at "30,000 mph", but takes 10 minutes or more to traverse Earth's ~100 mile atmosphere. (It should take less than 20 seconds).
The "planet killer" meteor is destroyed by 3 pounds of hydrochloric acid.
Totally ignored is the fact that even if this were possible, you STILL have the mass of a "planet killer" moving at 30,000 - regardless of any chemical reactions.
The "genius" son mumbles a few words like "pi" and magically controls the rocket to intercept the incoming meteor... doing what takes NASA months to do in a matter of seconds.
Despite meteorites landing all over the world, the FBI agents are bent on capturing the one guy who can "save the world". It's as if they are deaf, blind and stupid.
Why do the FBI agents want to capture the hero? His satellite was used to "spy"! Wait. Aren't half the satellites in orbit used to spy? But for some reason, he's a "traitor" for warning people about meteorites?
The usual computer baloney is involved - including "decrypting" a password just in time to save the world.
Most intriguing part of the movie was the idea of a "dark" asteroid that couldn't be detected interfering with other asteroids.
The "bad" guy is totally unbelievable - he gets a prediction of a series of cities that will be hit by meteorites, and they are, in order and in the predicted magnitude of impacts - but he remains unswayed and determined to punish the hero.
There are dozens of other plot flaws - but I have to give it to the cast for decent (if not exception) acting in a movie that had a promising plot destroyed by utter indifference to everything known about science.
Meteor shower - a football-size meteorite lands in the lead actor's back yard. Purely by chance. It shows an angle of impact that would have gone through his house... and the meteorite only buries itself about 6 inches into the ground? And it's cool enough to handle within a couple minutes? 17,000 mph - and only 6 inches penetration!?
Throughout the movie, people hear meteorites coming - despite the fact that they're moving at 20x the speed of sound.
There just happens to be a rocket sitting around, fueled up and ready to go to save the world. At a college science fair.
The "planet killer" meteor is inbound at "30,000 mph", but takes 10 minutes or more to traverse Earth's ~100 mile atmosphere. (It should take less than 20 seconds).
The "planet killer" meteor is destroyed by 3 pounds of hydrochloric acid.
Totally ignored is the fact that even if this were possible, you STILL have the mass of a "planet killer" moving at 30,000 - regardless of any chemical reactions.
The "genius" son mumbles a few words like "pi" and magically controls the rocket to intercept the incoming meteor... doing what takes NASA months to do in a matter of seconds.
Despite meteorites landing all over the world, the FBI agents are bent on capturing the one guy who can "save the world". It's as if they are deaf, blind and stupid.
Why do the FBI agents want to capture the hero? His satellite was used to "spy"! Wait. Aren't half the satellites in orbit used to spy? But for some reason, he's a "traitor" for warning people about meteorites?
The usual computer baloney is involved - including "decrypting" a password just in time to save the world.
Most intriguing part of the movie was the idea of a "dark" asteroid that couldn't be detected interfering with other asteroids.
The "bad" guy is totally unbelievable - he gets a prediction of a series of cities that will be hit by meteorites, and they are, in order and in the predicted magnitude of impacts - but he remains unswayed and determined to punish the hero.
There are dozens of other plot flaws - but I have to give it to the cast for decent (if not exception) acting in a movie that had a promising plot destroyed by utter indifference to everything known about science.