Review of Supernova

This is a standard end-of-the-world flick with low end special effects even for a TV movie. Some of the performances were worthy efforts, some of the dialogue was good, but not nearly enough. The plot often felt cobbled together, more like a rough draft. However, I had the sense that there might have once been a decent screenplay, but, perhaps once out of the writer's hands, it got rewritten innumerable times under the direction of some suit. You could almost hear the keys cutting and pasting in the script. The by-the-numbers feel seems to have effected the actors at times; here and there you felt they were just going through a well known routine.

The overall sense I was left with was a lack of clear direction. Not so much in individual scenes, which were sometimes good, but in the movie as a whole.

SPOILLER!!! The subplot of the protagonist's wife and child being threatened by a homicidal maniac that she had once helped put away was absurd. It belonged in another movie. My guess is that it was inserted in this one so the typically Neglectful Scientist, who has become standard in these movies, can re-bond with his family. That, and to add some thrills.

I will say, however, the actor who played said maniac certainly had the right face for it. Good casting there.

I hope some of the name actors have something better to go on to after this.