Does every disaster movie in modern filmmaking have to surround a family in crisis with parents split up, kids annoying, and nobody listening to the expert in the family (usually the dad) on the pending disaster. Barely past the level of an Asylum film, this meandering film is preposterous on so many levels, starting with the fact that practically everyone is unlikable and the manipulative script makes it impossible to care about everything they're going through. As usual, the dad is made the bad guy, the mom is the long suffering giver (yet very demanding in ordering her now estranged husband around), and apparently has a fatal illness.
When the first meteor hits (predicted by dad who ended up being fired from his job because of this), he only gets a brief moment of respect, and then it's back to dad bashing because well, dads just don't matter. There's also the stereotypical heavily accented villain who kidnaps dad and daughter after their big confrontation so this sets up a maudlin reconciliation later on. The acting is amateurish and the script is just plain uninteresting. This is best for skipping past the soapy scenes (75% of the film) and go to the meteor shots. The movie will be over in 10 minutes.
When the first meteor hits (predicted by dad who ended up being fired from his job because of this), he only gets a brief moment of respect, and then it's back to dad bashing because well, dads just don't matter. There's also the stereotypical heavily accented villain who kidnaps dad and daughter after their big confrontation so this sets up a maudlin reconciliation later on. The acting is amateurish and the script is just plain uninteresting. This is best for skipping past the soapy scenes (75% of the film) and go to the meteor shots. The movie will be over in 10 minutes.