Good start, but then it gets ruined

Beautiful, moving film.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

A meteor strikes the moon and creates regolith. Debris heads toward the earth and causes destruction. Discredited scientist Lana Gale (Amy Price-Francis) is the expert on the topic and her expertise is called back into service. Meanwhile in a subplot John (Stephen Baldwin) is a hotshot demolitions expert, someone Lana Gale would find attractive.To no surprise we discover the moon is breaking up and we need Stephen Baldwin to save us because Bruce Willis died in that other film. Of course, in like "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" there are those who claim we don't need to nuke, that things will heal themselves.This is a watered down made for TV movie with formula results. This is the kids version of the Willis film.

I give this a 5 because to me it is corny!! It seems like the younger generation believe all the junk that a computer produces is God's honest truth. It's not! You can tell that all the explosions are computer generation. Another thing you use linear charges to knock down a building. That is when just using conventional explosives. Now when you use nuclear everything changes. A lot of people are to the opinion that is, if you have 2 nukes alongside each other your going to get double the yield. Only trouble it doesn't work that way. In real life you do not drop or plant 2 nukes together, because only one is going to go off.When you have 2 nukes set at the same time to go off. You cannot get 2 electrical circuits to fire at the exact same time. One will be a milli-second off from the other & that is enough. One is going to detonate first & will vaporize the other. Hence, one detonation.How do I know this? I was a weapons mechanic in the USAF many moons ago & got to load both types of explosives & had to take a lot of courses on same.

Just when you though there was now way you could top the effort in 'Darkstorm', Baldwin has come up with a beauty in 'Earthstorm'. We pray that he gets over his drug addiction or replace the word drug with any other vice that comes to mind, there must be some excuse for taking these roles. But we live in a world of relativism, and relatively speaking he may not be as good as Alec, or have Adam's comedy. But enough said on that matter, because those boys look like they could put down. Anyhow the movie is worth the trouble if you need to play a practical joke on a friend, how you seen this great movie and couldn't stop watching it. Good trick on getting your name marked off on someones xmas list.

Thanks to the complete disregard by the makers of this movie of anything resembling science, I found it quite enjoyable. Yes, there is something called a "space shuttle", and the moon does exist, but that's about where the scientific facts end. Lots of fun trying to spot all of the plot elements that completely disregarded various law of physics; though I lost count after a while. I especially enjoyed how they would just string together some random technical-sounding words to explain each new problem encountered. Loved how to shuttle was able to magically levitate within the moon crevasse. The "goofs" page documents a few more items, but I imagine they also gave up after a while. Great fun!