Such a frustrating disappointment

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I personally have watched this movie seven times until my VCR tape broke. I loved it and would love to find it on DVD so I could watch it some more. I got real feeling for the actors in this movie. they seemed to react to situations like normal people might not the oh well whatever reaction that a lot of actors portray now days. I found the over all plot to be exciting without all the blood and gore that you see in a lot of films now.I hope anyone who watches it enjoys it as much as I have. You must remember that the newer special effects were not ready then and not judge it by that. Its special effects were great when it first came out.

This made-for-TV movie was slightly better than average. The variety of locations, story lines, visual effects and characters were 'ok'. Nothing made the 2-part movie particularly suspenseful or interesting, but the constantly moving pace kept if from degenerating into boredom.The movie is about two asteroids that are on a collision course for earth. A big problem is that there's not enough time to do very much to eliminate the threat. Part 1 of the movie deals with this situation. Part 2 deals with the negative aftermath of the what happens in the US.As mentioned, the saving grace of this movie is that there's a lot of action, visual effects and scale. It's not quite enough to make it a good movie, but it keeps it afloat.While this movie is innocent enough for any age group to watch, I don't really recommend seeing it because it's 4 hours (with commercials) of a forgettable story.

The hilarious horror is how many scientific facts you can get wrong in a single movie.As a first time watch this movie is absolutely gut-wrenching because of the huge blunders in the plot and the scientific "facts". I really ought to have spared myself by shutting off the TV but I could not. I was in denial - refusing to believe that so many stupid errors that any high school student could have caught had actually made it into a movie.So I kept watching in horror. Then actually, later on I watched this movie again because I still refused to believe what my eyes had seen. When I watched it the second time i realized that my eyes and ears had not betrayed me and I was rolling on the floor laughing through most of the film.The stupidity in this movie, makes it the kind of movie that makes the rest of the world believe that Americans are ignorant, unintelligent and need to fix their public schools. Not that I believe this to bee true although the script-writer falls into this category.This is unquestionably the most stupid movie I have ever watched, and probably also the worst. So I give it a clear 1 out of 10 since I can't use negative numbers.Although I must admit that this movie has a potential for becoming a cult-movie in the horror or comedy genre.

This is a disaster of a movie. Basically yet another asteroid/meteorite impact film, it departs from the formula in the behaviour of one of the leads, FEMA Director Jack Wallach.*** spoiler ***FEMA Director Jack Wallach abandons his responsibility to the public and launches on an entirely selfish private rescue mission. Let us hope that his character does not reflect that of the real people in similar positions. As it was, he should have been prosecuted for criminal dereliction of duty, or some such crime. I have some sympathies for his predicament - a family member is facing death - but he had a wider responsibility for the hundreds of thousands of people who were looking to him for their survival. Really, this single point destroyed what might have been a moderately successful film.