Secousse sismique

Man oh man, "Megafault" is your typical movie released by The Asylum. You have the failed actors (Brittany Murphy and Bruce Davison) and the guys who never made it (Eriq La Salle and Justin Hartley) all in a wonderful, horrible action drama with the usual touches of bad script, bad effects, and stone acting, ultimately leading to a fulfilling end.

Murphy is some scientist (there's your first problem) that deals with seismology. Ironically an earthquake erupts during a conference led by some other scientist (Davison). The earthquake/megafault seems to have been started by La Salle's character, it's never exactly explained. Hartley plays Murphy's husband. The film tracks their reactions to the megafault.

I didn't expect anything at all and I wasn't surprised at the end result of a brainless hour and a half. For example we look to the clichéd and hilarious thing where the hero is followed by the crack in the earth, Hartley's character surviving a plane crash that seemed to take both pilot's lives yet he emerges with a crooked tie and a hair out of place, and finally the BS description about all the scientific stuff. Cheesy but fun.

Murphy is alright, but I wasn't expecting much. It's a heckuva film to end your career on, that's for sure. She'll be missed. La Salle is probably the best one here. He doesn't take this ridiculous plot seriously either. Hartley is pretty good too. Davison is more of an extended cameo but he's always fun to watch.

Gist of the movie is brainlessness. It's one of The Asylum's better movies but still has enough ridicule so you can chuckle to yourself the whole way through.

Actually, this was so awful it was exquisitely awful. So I'm splitting the difference and giving it a 5 out of 10. But don't get me wrong. This really was the Sarah Palin or Harry Reid of SciFi movies.

Starting with the snow-capped mountains of West Virginia, the movie then showed us what an earthquake was...something that you detonated by blowing things up...and it caused gaping chasms to open in the ground while something like artillery shells blew up in the air. The notion that a tectonic plate would just kind of split with no reference to any preexisting faults (like, say New Madrid) other than the San Andreas fault just astounded me, but this is science stuff and people who make science fiction movies shouldn't be held to that.

The geographic ignorance seemed to complement the geological ignorance nicely. Let's see, the nearest city west of Boone County, West Virginia was Lexington, Kentucky. And a plane going down on the outskirts of St. Louis ends a smoking pile of twisted metal outside of Stillwater, Oklahoma. I wonder if any of them had a map in their glove-box when they were filming it.

But I was also amazed that none of the cast apparently had any problems with these things either.

A real upside of this was that the viewer didn't really care what happened to the characters. In fact, at the end of the year, everyone involved in it should probably get nominated for some sort of Darwin Award. And there's something to be said for a movie that you can watch without any sense of loss if you should fall asleep.

And that's an amazing comment for a movie that blows up the Grand Canyon, among other things...

I think the people making this movie had their hearts in the right place, but the movie turned out to be so crappy. Everything was against the movie from the start; the casting, the story, the CGI effects.

Lets start with the cast. Most people seemed like they didn't have their hearts in the project, as if they were going on autopilot. And, although I never were a fan of Murphy, what is up with her in this movie? She looks like she was on crack.

Moving on to the CGI effects, or lack thereof. Whom have ever seen fissures in the earth opening up and actually track people and cars? Or cracks opening up on one side of the car, then they are magically gone in the next scene, but the car is still driving at the same place. Man, the CGI effects in this movie were poor, no make that pisspoor.

Somehow I managed to make it through the entire movie. I forced myself because I wanted to sit through what was possibly the worst movie I had ever seen at that time.

This movie is bad with a capital B. If you, like me, enjoy finding subtle and in-your-face-obvious mistakes in movies, sit down and watch this one. You will have a paper full of errors. :)

There's really not much more that I can add to what the previous posters wrote.

The makers of this movie must have as their motto: "Quality, what's that?!"

If this movie were any more of a dog, it would shed!

Actually, it's kind of hard to get mad at something so "stupefyingly stupid" as this movie! (It looks like it was made by trolls.)

"Plan 9 From Outer Space", move over! A new worst movie joins you on the very worst movies list, meaning that at last there's a movie even lower than you!

If you liked "Crack In The World" with Dana Andrews, now you'll have something to compare it with!

There should be a negative score for film this bad. The writers have no idea what earthquakes are. They seem to think an earthquake is like a tear in fabric and if you can stay ahead of the rip you will be OK. Nonsense. Actress is so unprepared for the role she looks at her technical equipment like she's never seen it before. All the actors stand around uncomfortable knowing they have no lines. The failure is no ability to tell the truth. The writers know nothing about the underlying science of seismology and lied that they could write a story on the topic. No one on the project could tell the truth that the script was awful. The producers lied that they had a viable film. The nitwits at Syfy lie that they are able to develop or produce science fiction. At least they changed the spelling to spare the science fiction genre from guilt by association.

Work this poor is an affront to drama, to science, and to the audience.

Best line in the film: Because I'm holding a bottle of water, I'm more prepared for the next earthquake than most people. (sic) True.

Dumbest line in the first 30 minutes: (looking at a hole in the ground) "That was a 7 on the Richter scale." Total nonsense.

I turned it off.