The second...weather related film I've seen off Syfy was definitely the better.
We follow a town which becomes the victim of a meteor shower, which threatens the very Earth itself.
Now, I didn't expect much, but the special effects were actually not that bad, some great explosions and cars flipping into the air. The meteors themselves, well let's admit it, they weren't as good as 'Deep Impact' or 'Armageddon', but they were mediocre.
The acting wasn't that bad either, some great acting in fact, but like every single other film off SyFy, some scenes were terrible. Now that's a rare, some scenes. Mostly films off SyFy have all terrible scenes. The teenagers however are quite annoying sometimes, particularly at the start when they seemed to hate their parents for no reason. We then find out the Mayor's daughter Emily (Desirée Loewen) doesn't want to move town whilst a sheriff's son Seth (Graham Wardle) is being forced to write to his mother. Why the son doesn't like his mother and why the sheriff split with his wife I don't know, I kind of blacked out. I'm guessing she had an affair. Sheeree J. Wilson does a great job at playing Mayor Anna Davenport-Baxter, but I do feel she comes on to strong at some points, and too weak at others, as does Peter LaCroix as Jack Baxter.
Oh, by the way, Anna and Jack's son is dead. We are told this and apparently his ghost is hovering around his mother. Good for him. But seriously, Anna being haunted by her dead son (Zak Ludwig) actually has no impact on the film, there was seriously no point in having that in the film. She wasn't even being haunted! She couldn't see him! There is one scene where you think she sees him, but then again she was probably crying because she was thinking "Oh God we're gonna die,".
Oh and my favourite line of the film, when Seth was trapped under a tree and Emily was trying to help him, he says "Come on, if a meteorite can knock down a tree, you should be able to push it with your legs.". Where's his logic in that? Has he felt her leg muscles or something? Probably has, but this tree was massive, where did he get the idea that a girl in her late teens can move a tree that had to have weighed a hundred tonne, give or take.
Overall, not a bad stab at an apocalypse style film. Meteors have been done before, but so has everything else.
We follow a town which becomes the victim of a meteor shower, which threatens the very Earth itself.
Now, I didn't expect much, but the special effects were actually not that bad, some great explosions and cars flipping into the air. The meteors themselves, well let's admit it, they weren't as good as 'Deep Impact' or 'Armageddon', but they were mediocre.
The acting wasn't that bad either, some great acting in fact, but like every single other film off SyFy, some scenes were terrible. Now that's a rare, some scenes. Mostly films off SyFy have all terrible scenes. The teenagers however are quite annoying sometimes, particularly at the start when they seemed to hate their parents for no reason. We then find out the Mayor's daughter Emily (Desirée Loewen) doesn't want to move town whilst a sheriff's son Seth (Graham Wardle) is being forced to write to his mother. Why the son doesn't like his mother and why the sheriff split with his wife I don't know, I kind of blacked out. I'm guessing she had an affair. Sheeree J. Wilson does a great job at playing Mayor Anna Davenport-Baxter, but I do feel she comes on to strong at some points, and too weak at others, as does Peter LaCroix as Jack Baxter.
Oh, by the way, Anna and Jack's son is dead. We are told this and apparently his ghost is hovering around his mother. Good for him. But seriously, Anna being haunted by her dead son (Zak Ludwig) actually has no impact on the film, there was seriously no point in having that in the film. She wasn't even being haunted! She couldn't see him! There is one scene where you think she sees him, but then again she was probably crying because she was thinking "Oh God we're gonna die,".
Oh and my favourite line of the film, when Seth was trapped under a tree and Emily was trying to help him, he says "Come on, if a meteorite can knock down a tree, you should be able to push it with your legs.". Where's his logic in that? Has he felt her leg muscles or something? Probably has, but this tree was massive, where did he get the idea that a girl in her late teens can move a tree that had to have weighed a hundred tonne, give or take.
Overall, not a bad stab at an apocalypse style film. Meteors have been done before, but so has everything else.