Great Film overall

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I just got through watching this on the telly, since I often try to catch all the Asylum -projects I can out of sheer curiosity.The plot of this epic revolves around the Deep Impact / Armageddon -style asteroid that is hurling towards us and can't be blown up or thrown out of it's course. The best option they come up with is to bury nuclear weapons to the bottom of the planet and explode whole Earth out of it's course thus easily avoiding the deadly impact.I'll admit I'm no geologist or scientist of any creed, but even to the complete layman this sounds like a legit plan that can in no way backfire or cause any harm to our entire ecosystem. And the whole thing is orchestrated by a temp in NASA, who happens to be smarter than all the science minds of the nation combined.Tia Carrere plays a geologist that gets involved with the mission, and Robert Davi is a general of the army.I have always appreciated Carrere, because even at the height of her popularity, she often appeared in all things cheap and stupid. She is rather okay in this, although not as lovely as Renee O'Connor one could see in the Moby Dick interpretation of the same firm - which is probably shot in the same submarine set as most of this film.Davi's only point is to look concerned and drink a lot of coffee.This movie had a lot of good brain fart mentality. The biggest problem with Asylum these days is that their movies have become too coherent and can only be distinguished from the normal Hollywood crap by their cheapness. Asteroid vs Earth was like if Ronald Emmerich had £3 cash and was even more crazy as the reality shows - and that's a good thing.We had a nice scene, where the sub has a leak at it's backside, so they device an explosion to separate only the front part of the vehicle and continue with just that. Or how about the ending, where we go into The Lord of the Rings -territory, as one soldier has to try and smuggle few nukes up a roaring volcano whilst avoiding enemies surrounding the mountain.And in the end, world literally jumps from it's orbit in a scene that looks like it has been directly lifted from the intro sequence of 3rd Rock from the Sun. In horrible, horrible CGI, of course - as is everything in this piece.This gets an okay score in terms of Asylum films from me. I wasn't disappointed, because this time the dumb cheese translated as entertainment, not a boring snooze fest.

Terrible. There are no words to describe the incoherence of this film!It tries to emulate a big sci-fi masterpiece without minimally succeed in the effort. Ridiculous scenes, inconsistent, inexplicable, too short. Simply horrific!The plot is so badly done by picking up the nervous while you watch it.Many many times I was about to turn off but I continued to watch it just to the disbelief of what I was seeing.I'm really sorry for Tia, who is a good actress and should denounce the authors and the director which compelled her to star in a film like this!

"Asteroid vs. Earth" tells the same old story of an asteroid on collision course with earth - however, the plan to avoid the collision is different from previous movies on the same subject. Instead of blowing up the asteroid, the protagonists want to cause a massive earthquake, 18 (!) on the Richter scale, to push the earth out of the way. Robert Davi plays a 4 star general who is immediately convinced this lunatic plan is great. So let's blow up the earth to save it! Tia Carrere plays a scientist who is more or less abducted to co-operate, otherwise I presume no person with a scientific mind - or any mind for that matter - would take part in this enterprise. If someone seriously attempts to list the goofs in this movie, especially things are technically not possible, he'll be busy for days.The most enjoyable thing on the Blu-ray disc was the making of, when the stars try desperately to keep a straight face, saying thinks like "I signed for the movie because I thought the script was brilliant". Yes, sure, most likely that's how it happened.

Destined to be a cult classic, this movie reminds me of Plan 9 from Outer Space, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, etc. The plot includes a subtle reference to a former gay shipboard romance, later solidified in the last scenes by the tough crewman acknowledging "we know". The asteroid is too big for deflection, but the earth can shimmy out of the way with a couple of earthquakes that will kill only half the population. This is kept secret from everyone except the evil U.S. military command who runs roughshod over China, Russia/Ukraine, and EU in an early teleconference. The XO is told he will report to the civilian scientist (Tia Carerre) as her "weapons officer". The nuclear powered submarine needs to leave before low tide. The draft is 18 feet. So they DIVE in the harbor to leave. Amazing. The faulty welding floods part of the sub and they lose the nuclear bombs made from parts of the scientist's deep water submarine which somehow float out the top hatch. Yet the people in the flooded compartment are OK. Later the submarine is severed in two by charges placed at 18-inch intervals — while underway at maximum depth — to drop the tail section with nuclear bombs into the Yap Trench. Yet when the front section surfaces it can make way with no tail and no propellers — AND the conning tower is moved from mid-ship to forward. There are so many continuity, logic, and procedural errors that the laughs never stop. This film will stay alive like Rocky Horror Picture Show!