Astéroïde

A real disappointment!

First, credibility approaches zero, as a trillion-ton rock, moving at 15 miles per second is stopped by the LASER beams of two small aircraft on earth. Has anyone read physics? It is as if a mosquito would stop an express train.

Meteorites rain on the same spot for hours, even though earth rotates.

Meteorites are seen entering earth's atmosphere several minutes before they hit ground. Are there parachutes attached to them?

In the two more well-known films on this subject, Armageddon and Deep Impact, the meteor is stopped by bombing it with thermonuclear devices - a completely sensible theory. I like Science Fiction, but 'Asteroids' isn't SciFi, the film violates every possible physical law, the creators treating the observers as imbecills.

Every building and vehicle in the film seems to be filled with gasoline - everything explodes (by the way - when will we see a film where cars and houses don't explode and diesel oil doesn´t catch fire?).

The second part of the film is an endless display of fires, roaming people and military vehicles. This would certainly put you to sleep were it not for the monotonous engine noise and fire sound.

And in every dramatic scene you are faced with the difficult and thrilling questions: "Will they find each other???", "Will the hero survive???".

I long for a meteor movie that blasts everything away, killing everyone including the hero.

Every big disaster movie released on the big screen always bring wanna be made-for- tv movies. This Movie is not even close to "Deep Impact" or "Armageddon" which both were very good films. Well some woman looking in a telescope discovers a big astroid that seems to be coming to the earth. It Hits right in Kansas city. I found myself rooting for the astroids.

I was impressed by the special fx in this. For a tv movie they were really good. Some of it was typical diasaster cheese but all in all a pretty good asteroid flick. Not as gripping and exciting as Armageddon but still very good.

Down at the "Asteroid" studio: "Boy, oh boy, what shall we do, what shall we do? We have no ideas at all! Hey, why don`t we steal an idea from another movie but instead of copying it, we just take away the excitement, the good FX, the breathtaking action and, hey, who cares about good acting anyway?" I think that this monologue really has occurred, because it really describes how much this movie sucks. But the worst part about it was the length!!! Do NOT rent, buy or touch this movie!!!

I'm not surprised that many people blasted this movie;

some folks just seem to think that action flicks like this are

supposed to be realistic. Sorry to disappoint, but they're

supposed to be larger than life. You want life, watch a

documentary.

Michael Biehn is one of my favorite action stars and he

doesn't get nearly the attention he should. Yes, there were

some very bad actors and writing in parts of this one, but it

was still a fun couple of hours. The TV version is way too

long; the VHS version has been trimmed down and it's a

good thing.