Powerful

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

This science fiction disaster thriller film was aired as a made-for-television film on June 10, 2006. The unrated film follows a scientific experiment gone wrong that creates a black hole that has the potential to destroy the Earth while also holding an entity from beyond. The 90-minute film stars Kristy Swanson as a scientist who witnessed the accident, Judd Nelson as her colleague who's hired to solve the problem, and David Selby as a colonel sent to supervise Nelson's commands. Nelson just seems washed up, and grumpy in his leading role, becoming a parody of what his character is supposed to be. Swanson, on the other hand, doesn't get enough to do and comes off as a bland supporting character. Selby is the best actor in the group by a long shot, bringing his character to life with a commanding voice, and strong emotions. Despite the fact that the black hole has the power the destroy the entire planet, it only ever eats up St. Louis, and the film becomes rather unexciting as a result. If the film had focused on the destruction of the planet created by the black hole, it would've been better as a result. Even worse, the alien-like entity controlling the black hole is never explained. Despite the limited setting, however, the film still stands as a thrilling drama that sees military officials, and scientists forced to make risky decisions. Like with most of Echo Bridge Home Entertainment's films, if you're looking for an action-packed adventure with a unique concept, just go watch The Core instead. But if you're looking for a thrilling film with life and death drama, look no further than The Black Hole. 7/10.

While conducting experiments at Midwestern Quantum Research Laboratory in St. Louis, Missouri the technicians discover the formation of a black hole within their structure. As it increases in size and becomes even more destructive the Army is called in to investigate and they find that there is something other than the black hole that demands their immediate attention. At any rate, rather than risk ruining the movie for those who haven't seen it, I will just say that this film had several weak areas. It started off okay but then it seemed to go downhill fast after the first 20 minutes or so. One reason for this is that while Kristy Swanson (as "Shannon Muir"), Judd Nelson ("Eric Bryce") and David Selby ("General Ryker") turned in adequate performances the same could not be said for the secondary cast (other than possibly Heather Dawn as "SGT Alicia Bennett"). Yet, rather than minimizing their roles, enhancing some of the dialogue, re-filming some of the scenes or possibly cutting some of the weaker segments the director (Tibor Takács) let it all slide. Perhaps there was a time-crunch or a lack of resources but whatever the reason there were certain parts of the film that were pretty sloppy. For example, the uniform for "General Tate" (Peter Mayer) was totally comical and nobody who has ever served in the military could possibly take it seriously. Yet here was a 4-star general wearing a field jacket with 4 shiny stars on his shoulders, medals on his chest (which are normally worn only at ceremonial functions) and one huge shiny star on his hat. Apparently whoever was in charge of the wardrobe didn't realize that field jackets require subdued insignia and use a camouflage pattern so that people blend into the surrounding environment whereas shiny things only make them stand out. In any case, he looked quite ridiculous. It should also be noted that this was a made-for-television movie and as a result the makers of the film were somewhat handicapped due to broadcast limitations. So there is no profanity, sex, nudity or anything of a graphic nature allowed which might possibly enhance the picture. Such was the hand they were dealt and they knew this going in. All the more reason, I would think, to have some good quality assurance every step of the way. Unfortunately, this movie didn't get it and the results speak for themselves. Below average.

*Spoiler/plot- The Black Hole, 2006, With a scientific mishap, humanity is faced with a growing galactic black-hole in St. Louis with an electricity feeding life-form that was unleashed from another space/time dimension.*Special Stars- Judd Nelson, Kristy Swanson, David Shelby *Theme- Science often probes into matters that are better left unknown.*Trivia/location/goofs- TV movie, Watch for the electricity eating alien in this film.*Emotion- It looked like this film was 'cashing-in' on the era's black-hole studies making into nightly news reports. It's very bad and a waste of the starring actor's talents. A rather crazy film with the low-key dramatic situations but somewhat saved by the rest of the film's good horror pacing. The slow and tedious plot make the viewer over-interested in the electricity eating power alien of this film, but it is a buzz-kill plot element too.

We have no idea what a "Black Hole" would do if it suddenly developed on the surface of a planet. It could act like a block of sodium metal on the surface of water. Whatever you think a Black Hole is, in terms of physics, it is first of all a distortion in time and space and gravity. Whatever is at the center of it is not anything we consider to be matter. While there is a great deal of elaboration on the theory that fits the data, science is about experiment. We have not probed or experimented with a Black Hole.Here is a mind experiment for you. We know that as matter approaches the speed (or velocity) of light, its mass increases without limit. Imagine an object with a mass that was infinite.Gravity is directly proportionate to mass. So, an object with mass without limit would have gravity without limit. The reason a photon (light) is able to travel at light speed is because it has no mass.If there were any possibility of creating a Black Hole, likely it would be in a situation, like an accelerator, where a particle with mass is forced with great energy to accelerate toward that light velocity.Since that particle's mass is increasing with velocity, it would take exponentially more energy to accelerate it further. You would need energy without limit, therefore to accelerate a mass without limit to light velocity.So, the issue of how a Black Hole would interact with a planet's surface is a moot point. Likely if you turned the whole planet's mass into energy you could still not produce a Black Hole.In the movie the phenomena is characterized as a Black Hole mainly by the media man in a news chopper. It could be a distortion in space/time like a wormhole as well.When we are willing to suspend disbelief in a movie for faster than light travel, it seems trivial, to me, to get excited about what a Black Hole might do on suddenly appearing on the surface of the planet.