Earthtastrophe

This movie is bad, but I expected that going in. I'd say its biggest problem is poor character development, basically you don't care for anyone. Its great strength is the refreshing tho maybe a bit overly ambitious story-line which puts much larger productions to shame. Not sure if it's all Ashley O'Neil's contribution but will check her other work.

CGI is, as expected, amateurish, and there are some smaller problems with acting (or maybe director instructing actors) but nothing really horrendous like in similar budget movies. Everyone from the crew should be proud and continue bringing us new projects.

I love cheesy disaster movies, and found this one to be not so-bad-it's-good, but better than I expected. It's good enough for me to wish it had been better, mind you. I think it maybe needed some more money thrown at it. At any rate, they did well with what they had. It has decent acting, even some pretty good acting. The special effects range from not-so-great, to quite convincing. It's full of interesting ideas, and things that I haven't seen in other movies, including blockbuster 'Hollywood' type movies. Not a waste of time!

Of course I had never heard about this 2016 movie prior to sitting down and watching it. I happened to come across it by random chance here in 2024 and opted to sit down and give the movie a fair chance. I have to admit, though, that I wasn't harboring much of any hopes or expectations to the movie, given the laughable title that the movie had.

But I still opted to give the movie a fair chance and the benefit of the doubt.

And not even a minute into the movie it became painstakingly clear that this movie was going to suck. The special effects were dubius and laughable. But hey, at least the effects matched the title, and that has got to count for something, right?

Writer Ashley O'Neil put together an insanely generic script. The cataclysmic events in the movie just made zero sense, and it were glanced over with far too much irrelevance. The audience is left with a sense of 'seriously?' as the movie progress and the pointless narrative trotted on and on.

I have to say that the narrative spiraled more and more out of control and went from strange to absurd and laughable as the movie progressed. This whole thing was a dumpster fire.

Of the entire cast ensemble in the movie, I was only familiar with Brian Krause. I will say that the most of the acting performances throughout the course of the movie were fair. Nothing great or memorable, mind you. But taking into consideration the contents of the script and the character gallery, or rather lack thereof, then the actors and actresses actually faired well enough.

Visually then you're not in for anything grand. At least they tried, and that counts for something. But the effects in the movie were pretty bad. And for a movie made in 2016, it looked and felt like something that found its way out of the 1990s.

If you enjoy disaster movies, then do yourself a favor and skip on spending, well rather wasting, 82 minutes on "Earthtastrophe". It just simply wasn't worth the effort. Some of us suffered through this so you don't have to. You're very welcome.

How "Earthtastrophe" has managed to lande a 3.7 rating here on IMDb, in the very moment I am writing this review, is just simply beyond my comprehension.

My rating of director Nick Lyon's 2016 movie "Earthtastrophe" lands on a generous two out of ten stars.

Hoping to find a hidden gem, I was unfortunately bitterly disappointed. This just follows the typical story line of about every catastrophe film made exclusively for TV out there, apart from that parts of it are even more hare-brained and have more plot holes than usual. The film features a few decent actors from the 'I've seen him/her before' category but mainly the acting is just as bad as the story. The leads are generally disappointing, especially Tonya Kay who apparently has watched the Sharknado movies preparing for this role so she could channel Tara Reid. Some of the minor roles are decently acted but hardly worthy of any awards (not even a Golden Raspberry). Okay for trash fans and if you have absolutely nothing else to watch and want to give your brain a rest, otherwise no real reason to watch this.

"Earthtastrophe" is another overrated Z-movie in IMDb that is a disaster from the beginning to the end. The messy story does not have character development and the viewer has no idea of who is who and does not care for any character. The special effects, the acting and the dialogues are very poor. But the worst is terrible screenplay, with annoying and repetitive flashbacks and no clear explanation of what is exactly happening. In the end, "Earthtastrophe" is better than sleeping pill for insomnia. My vote is two.

Title (Brazil): "Earthtastrophe"