Earth's Final Hours

Just don't! I don't know who gave it this may stars, but they shouldn't be allowed to vote. I hate to sound rash, but I had to write this review because of this. There are people that actually would of watched this travesty because of the high star-rating. Please IMDb watch this movie and you be the judge of this misrepresentation of a review, a complete abomination. I understand that it's someone's opinion, but really!! I mean a 7.9 star rating that is sent out in the public, shouldn't never been an issue. That is saying that this movie out does some great movies that do not have this high of a rating.

"If the highlight of a movie is the credits, then don't give it credit"

Once again, as with other SyFy Channel disaster movies of recent years, I was looking forward to watching a really good movie with Earth's Final Hours. I particularly wanted to watch it when I saw that Bruce Davison is in it, whom I have admired since his debut in Mame with Lucille Ball. I cannot believe that Davison would agree to appearing in such a stinker! His performance was the only saving grace of the movie. The movie was nothing but way overdone-and dreadfully boring-FBI shootouts and lousy special effects. The scientific aspects were also bordering on the ridiculous. I was expecting to watch something of the caliber of the recent "2012" movie, but this film came nowhere close to it. I would not waste one minute watching this movie ever again in spite of Bruce Davison! Avoid this one like the plague!

First of all, what's up with IMDb's "star number rating" system? When I rated and wrote the review for this movie, the system reported 8 votes with an average rating of 7.9 stars. At the time there were six reviews with star ratings of 2, 1, 6, nil, 1, and 3; using actual math, something of which the makers of this movie have no grasp, and using the most generous numbers, the average rating should be about 5.4 stars.

Regardless of IMDb's rating system, this movie is yet another Sci-Fi Channel stinker. I will agree with an earlier reviewer that the first 30 minutes of the movie seemed promising, though it contained some silliness. In the end, the only redeeming quality of this movie is that the CGI FX seem above average for most SyFy movies. The plot is weaker than most, the dialogue is weak, and the science was laughable. Also usual for a SyFy flick, many of the characters do not behave like actual humans would. Ultimately, the movie is actually painful to watch. If a movie this bad can actually be produced, then how bad are the rejected scripts?

Once again, the only fun way to watch this movie would be to create a drinking game around it. When a character says something lame or predictable, have a drink. When scene is so bad it makes you cry, down your entire drink, and so on. And never pause the movie while you refill your glass.

I don't understand why so many people post negative reviews on some of these SyFy Channel movies. These movies aren't made to be blockbusters. I don't take any of them seriously. They're meant to be entertaining, and more often than not, "mindless" entertainment that you can often sit back and have a few laughs with on a Saturday or Sunday evening.

Unlike many reviewers, I actually "enjoy" watching SyFy Channel movies. Knowing how cheaply they are made and how far out some of them are makes them all the more entertaining. That being said, some are still better than others. Quiet a few of the newer ones have been very enjoyable to me, and this one was no exception.

It's science fiction, not science fact and I was entertained for an hour and a half. I won't go into the plot as you can read that under the main page, but if you like watching SyFy Channel Disaster movies like myself, than you will probably feel it was time well spent. If you don't like "out there" plot lines, low budget effects and some bad acting then don't watch it and stick with "Hollywood" style films.

I normally try not to be harsh with ratings and review summaries, but Earth's Final Hours really took the biscuit. I have seen worse movies, and SyFy have done much worse than this, but that is not excusing this really pathetic excuse for a movie from being one of the worst movies I've seen in the past month. There is only one redeeming factor, and that is Bruce Davison, who actually tries his best in a role and with dialogue that had so much potential to be so much more than turned out.

Earth's Final Hours looks cheap, I found the film very dull in its look and the special effects while not as bad as the Mega Piranha, Titanic II and Quantum Apocalypse still look as though they were made in a rush and gives the indication that the makers were looking at quantity rather than quality. The concept was ridiculous in the first place, but I wasn't expecting the final product to have such a sluggish, scientifically illogical, utterly predictable and above all uninteresting story.

There's also some of the most stilted dialogue I have heard ever in my life, an ending that is drawn out, anti-climatic and goes nowhere and almost every character cliché in the book(seriously when it comes to characters there is nothing new whatsoever here). The acting is terrible, Davison is the only one who tries, Julie Benson is wooden and Cameron Bright has to be one of the blandest and most monotonic actors there is. Overall, a stinker of a movie with almost nothing good about it excepting Davison. 1/10 Bethany Cox