À l'aube de la destruction

and I gave this a 5.... I still watched it through to the end. Chalk it up to sentimentalism, but I really enjoyed some of the writing - the dialog was cheesy as hell sometimes ("We *all* have some explaining to do") but there were honest moments and I actually got surprised a couple times by the success of the attempts to make the characters more relatable and believable.

Treat Williams was a fantastic choice of casting. I could sympathize just enough with the character Max and his menacing side was brilliant.

Most of the other characters were mostly flat and staid, but as I mentioned, there were these glimmers of honest dialog that kept me happy.

All in all, most of the cast was damn good - far better than I expected for a 2 episode miniseries that Netflix basically introduced as "eco-maniacs ruin earth for the rest of us."

Heck, it was good enough that I opened an account on here finally just to comment on it!

Watch it if you have any appreciation for crappy sci-fi or good attempts at making films. I am now off to rate Stargate SG1... 30 stars for every episode!

After sitting though this hoping it was going to improve or grab me in some way it is easy to see why the rating for this is so low.

Very average disaster fare IMO.

Nothing special to make you want to sit through 180 minutes of average special effects and average acting. I did it to be able to write this review.

The "been there done that" memories were raging all the way through this, lots of standard good guy bad guy cliques.

Bad guy greedy company owner tries to go against all the recommendations that they shouldn't to do what they want to do, small environmental protest group interferes and disaster ensures.

Bad guys escape justice at last minute, good guys overt complete catastrophe and life gets back on track. Only 500,000 people we never see have died.

The End.

It's not the best acting, nor story lines but it's an ok sofa lazing Sunday afternoon show, it doesn't take much to follow & allows you to type up reviews and watch.

This movie was actually a lot better than I imagined it would be. I am extremely critical of films, but for some odd reason, this one had a bit of this, a bit of that, and just enough something to make me watch watch it all the way through.

This was no better than a good B movie and far better than some network television shows people think are so awesome. Some actors were good, others need to go back to acting school...but Steve Weber anchored this movie just enough to make it watchable. Treat Williams also made it OK to watch as well. I was actually looking for it to be a bit longer.

The storyline could have been developed a bit more, but other than that, sci-fi buffs can sit through this one.

This movie has the making of a much longer mini-series, imo. Come on, who doesn't want to see Ms Cox run around om film?

Look, there are lots of technical reasons to cringe at this. Especially if you are a trained film, script, or score editor.

There are points where the storyline borrows almost completely from other SyFy series. There are may points that are completely derivative of movies from the last 20 years. Some of the film- workers are obviously not Russian or "terrorist" types.

Music sometimes sounds stock, and at times overwhelms the dialog to the point of being ridiculous.

Yes, it is really bad most of the time. But you don't have to pay to watch this other than your time and it has some entertainment value.

Just watch the show if you like SyFy productions and decide for yourself. It is at least worlds beyond Sharknado.