I liked this film and not just because I'm a guy and think Amanda Crew and the blonde reporter are really hot. It is slightly cheesy as many TV movies are but the science is, for the most part, sound *because* in the end it rains and this indicates some assumptions the lead scientists made in the film were wrong ( see the FAQ I started ).
Notice all the Washington state license plates and one California license plate throughout the movie ( the film was shot in B.C. )? This shows the director, actors, screenwriter(s) and producers understand a global catastrophe is truly global.
I must dispute what Ladyliberty wrote: ''..While the story here is okay and actually has some real potential, the script is just awful. The science part of the science fiction is non-existent starting with the asteroid pushing the earth out of orbit and escalating with the notion that the "gravitational balance of the solar system''
No, it is not non-existent. I think that layer getting burned off at the beginning of the film by the space rock is the rest of our Earth's ozone layer and that Earth's orbit around the sun and/or rotational axis was only slightly offset. Meltdown's problem is it narrows the focus of global review of an incoming asteroid/meteorite to a single group of scientists. The film is politically and economically unrealistic -- that's OK sci-fi doesn't have to be ( this time ).
''..the fact is that such scenarios are a very real danger to the planet. Unfortunately, we've tracked nowhere near all of the near earth asteroids that could be worrisome in some orbit some day''
Ha, you probably do not know there is a recurring military side independent of NASA's infrastructure and has sort of been that way since the late 1970's or early 1980's. In addition to many professional amateur astronomers pointing their reflector and refracting telescopes at the night sky on a daily or weekly basis there are large scale CCD cameras mounted to orbiting satellites pointed away from the Earth that pretty much do nothing but look for approaching chunks of rock.
I give Meltdown six out of ten stars during a year that saw very little sci-fi. It seems western Canada is the new sci-fi Hollywood.
Notice all the Washington state license plates and one California license plate throughout the movie ( the film was shot in B.C. )? This shows the director, actors, screenwriter(s) and producers understand a global catastrophe is truly global.
I must dispute what Ladyliberty wrote: ''..While the story here is okay and actually has some real potential, the script is just awful. The science part of the science fiction is non-existent starting with the asteroid pushing the earth out of orbit and escalating with the notion that the "gravitational balance of the solar system''
No, it is not non-existent. I think that layer getting burned off at the beginning of the film by the space rock is the rest of our Earth's ozone layer and that Earth's orbit around the sun and/or rotational axis was only slightly offset. Meltdown's problem is it narrows the focus of global review of an incoming asteroid/meteorite to a single group of scientists. The film is politically and economically unrealistic -- that's OK sci-fi doesn't have to be ( this time ).
''..the fact is that such scenarios are a very real danger to the planet. Unfortunately, we've tracked nowhere near all of the near earth asteroids that could be worrisome in some orbit some day''
Ha, you probably do not know there is a recurring military side independent of NASA's infrastructure and has sort of been that way since the late 1970's or early 1980's. In addition to many professional amateur astronomers pointing their reflector and refracting telescopes at the night sky on a daily or weekly basis there are large scale CCD cameras mounted to orbiting satellites pointed away from the Earth that pretty much do nothing but look for approaching chunks of rock.
I give Meltdown six out of ten stars during a year that saw very little sci-fi. It seems western Canada is the new sci-fi Hollywood.