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This movie is trash. Disaster movies are usually trash but they can be fun, this is a bit different. Movies like Independence Day or 2012 lived and died by their visual effects. This movies special effects are on the level of something like a Pureflix film. The acting is atrocious, especially from that guy who’s supposed to be Gerard Butler’s brother. The kid who’s playing Gerard Butlers daughter, her dialogue is super weird it’s like that character was meant to be his girlfriend originally but they decided to change it to his daughter last minute without rewriting the script. All of her lines seem like something a smart ass, world weary 30+ year old would say. The plot is predictable with zero twists or turns. The worst thing about this movie is that it’s not even funny bad, it just stinks.-Zachary

This movie had to be a favor. It wasn’t good. It almost seemed like an attempt to retread “The Day After Tomorrow” but change the story so that the “storm” was caused by some sort of rogue man-made weather system. My 11-year old kid liked it, so maybe it’s a good fit for kids.-Juston with an O

ORIGINAL REVIEW:
This movie gets two stars instead of one, only because the special effects seem reasonably competent. The acting wasn’t really a problem. The production values are fine. The special effects are fine. But this movie is just so badly written; such complete schlock and so over-the-top sappy that it distracts from anything good that happened in its production. It steals from other sappy movies (Independence Day, 2012, et al) to such an extent that it is almost a parody. In fact, it would have been a much better movie if they had made it a parody (like Mars Attacks). But it was clearly not intended to be that, which just made it a parody of itself. Any conformity to actual scientific principals are virtually non-existent/completely accidental. As far as science goes, the writers/producers were clearly of the mindset, “Science!? We don’t need no stinking science!” Even the special effects are flawed in that they are clearly just randomly sprinkled in. It seems like the whole movie consisted of a bunch of special effects exercises with a McStory (TM) built around it to show off those special effects snippets. A quick google search tells me that this movie had a budget of around 120 million dollars. With that much money, they should have been able to tell a much more coherent story. The sad thing is, this movie gives a bad name to an entire sci-fi sub-genre – disaster movies. We may not see another big budget disaster film for many years because of the producers of this film, and for that, I despise them.

UPDATE 1:
I had to give this one a second look because I thought I might have been a little too harsh after the first viewing (during which I may or may not have dozed off momentarily). Okay, it’s not as bad as two stars. The sappiness is still there, but the story line does actually hold together reasonably well for a disaster sci-fi movie. But the acting of most of the supporting characters was just awful: Jake’s “team” on the space station and the computer nerd that Max recruits to help him, all act like idiots as characters (bad direction), and just act poorly as actors (bad acting school?) The main characters, including Jake’s daughter (super sappy/wishful thinking narration notwithstanding) actually displayed pretty decent acting skills. As for my complaints about the science, that still stands… sorry, but if I see one more space shuttle fly around in space like a fighter jet, I’m gonna hurl! I’m okay with suspension of disbelief, but that doesn’t include abandoning the basics of aeronautic science. I was willing to let it slide in Armageddon, but I would hope we’ve all grown up a little bit since then.

UPDATE 2:
I hate it when I’m wrong, but I’ll admit it… I was wr-wr-wr-wr… wr-wr-wr… wr-wrong. And Robert (see comment below) is right. I still stand by my criticism of some of the supporting acting, and it’s still a bit cheesy, but I’ll be darned if I don’t have to boot this one up AGAIN to four stars. One pretty good thing about it is that it stands up well to repeated viewings. The story line don’t stink that bad and the main actors are all pretty top notch (as you would expect from the all-star cast.) I give it my recommendation…. Yes, you have my permission, and I won’t think less of you, to buy this movie. (I know you were waiting for that.)

-GuinnessFan

DVD Wholesale Main Features:

Actors: Gerard Butler, Abbie Cornish, Katheryn Winnick, Alexandra Maria Lara, Jim Sturgess
Directors: Dean Devlin
Writers: Dean Devlin, Paul Guyot
Producers: Dean Devlin, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Rachel Olschan, Marc Roskin
Format: PAL, Subtitled
Language: English, Italian
Subtitles: English, Greek, Italian
Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
Region: Region 2
Number of discs: 1
Classification: 12
Studio: Warner Bros
DVD Release Date: 19 Feb. 2018
Run Time: 105 minutes
ASIN: B076B9BB45