User Reviews

Only watched this movie because I saw that Tuvok from Star Trek was in it, and for his role in the movie I guess he did a passable job. The movie however was so terrible...

The plot is completely and utterly garbage, only a person with no schooling of any type would buy the story. It's one of those moments in a movie where they need to get you to go along with what they are saying. There are usually two ways, Science, and magic. Lets face it they would have been better off going the magic route on this one.

Second, Roles of officials, Soldiers, and general professionals. The world leaders acted like badly mannered teenagers, and seemed completely incompetent. The Main scientist was a Child, The person in charge of the nukes on shore had to be the worst over-actor I have seen in ages. He made those crates seem so heavy that Hulk couldn't have lifted them but some how he did after he had himself a cry.

The General in charge of the US affairs doesn't have any scientific advisers or professionals instead he trusts a child for advice.

The Soldiers just pointed guns at everyone. Going to pick up a scientist to help with the plan, Sure lets all point m16's at her and yell loudly. Hey we are going to offload nuclear devices at a naval base and apparently there is no where to store them on base so lets lug em around in SUV's.

The engineers on the ship were incompetent. When told to wrap things up outside the ship and continue working from the inside the Head engineer tells someone inside! the ship to stop work.... The ship itself seems to be held together with duct tape.

Let us delve a little deeper though, no Romance in the film just a really fake gay relationship that was done terribly. The relationship between the XO and the female scientist was Just terrible, they kiss at the end after having had no real romantic moments the entire movie...

Apparently our intern dies from foam ceiling tiles a collapsible pipe and some drywall.

OK, Asylum is known for pretty bad flicks. Sharknado is one of the better of the lot IMHO. This movie is pretty far fetched, the acting sucks, and a lot of canned footage used. BUT I enjoyed the interior sub footage - we're talking "super low budget"! Ever see PC monitors and 'puters, dryer vent hosing, loose wiring draped down from the ceiling or a teletype machine on a sub? And a gay XO? Give me a break... And blasting the ship in two? What a hoot! Also, I liked the mylar aluminum radiation suit (unzipped!) and the lieutenant telling gunny "I was talking to Terry." Gunny says "we know"... sadly the intern dies, making things dire. Then the Saipan volcano saves the day.

Destined to be a cult classic, this movie reminds me of Plan 9 from Outer Space, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, etc. The plot includes a subtle reference to a former gay shipboard romance, later solidified in the last scenes by the tough crewman acknowledging "we know". The asteroid is too big for deflection, but the earth can shimmy out of the way with a couple of earthquakes that will kill only half the population. This is kept secret from everyone except the evil U.S. military command who runs roughshod over China, Russia/Ukraine, and EU in an early teleconference. The XO is told he will report to the civilian scientist (Tia Carerre) as her "weapons officer". The nuclear powered submarine needs to leave before low tide. The draft is 18 feet. So they DIVE in the harbor to leave. Amazing. The faulty welding floods part of the sub and they lose the nuclear bombs made from parts of the scientist's deep water submarine which somehow float out the top hatch. Yet the people in the flooded compartment are OK. Later the submarine is severed in two by charges placed at 18-inch intervals — while underway at maximum depth — to drop the tail section with nuclear bombs into the Yap Trench. Yet when the front section surfaces it can make way with no tail and no propellers — AND the conning tower is moved from mid-ship to forward. There are so many continuity, logic, and procedural errors that the laughs never stop. This film will stay alive like Rocky Horror Picture Show!

This movie was so bad that everyone involved should be prosecuted and imprisoned for crimes against humanity.

Just kidding, but it really was that bad.

I thought with some big stars like Tim Russ (Tuvok, Star Trek Voyager) and Robert Davai (Kholia, Stargate Atlantis) then it should be at least bearable. Nope. Nothing even close.

Coming from a career in the military, the military characters and dialogue were horrific. Not the worst I've seen but still really bad.

The Asylum "was" progressing slowly but surely towards better movies, but this was a step back. Even for the Asylum.

Save your time, save your money, and just skip this. Trust me, if you watch this you'll wish you had taken my advice.

I just got through watching this on the telly, since I often try to catch all the Asylum -projects I can out of sheer curiosity.

The plot of this epic revolves around the Deep Impact / Armageddon -style asteroid that is hurling towards us and can't be blown up or thrown out of it's course. The best option they come up with is to bury nuclear weapons to the bottom of the planet and explode whole Earth out of it's course thus easily avoiding the deadly impact.

I'll admit I'm no geologist or scientist of any creed, but even to the complete layman this sounds like a legit plan that can in no way backfire or cause any harm to our entire ecosystem. And the whole thing is orchestrated by a temp in NASA, who happens to be smarter than all the science minds of the nation combined.

Tia Carrere plays a geologist that gets involved with the mission, and Robert Davi is a general of the army.

I have always appreciated Carrere, because even at the height of her popularity, she often appeared in all things cheap and stupid. She is rather okay in this, although not as lovely as Renee O'Connor one could see in the Moby Dick interpretation of the same firm - which is probably shot in the same submarine set as most of this film.

Davi's only point is to look concerned and drink a lot of coffee.

This movie had a lot of good brain fart mentality. The biggest problem with Asylum these days is that their movies have become too coherent and can only be distinguished from the normal Hollywood crap by their cheapness. Asteroid vs Earth was like if Ronald Emmerich had £3 cash and was even more crazy as the reality shows - and that's a good thing.

We had a nice scene, where the sub has a leak at it's backside, so they device an explosion to separate only the front part of the vehicle and continue with just that. Or how about the ending, where we go into The Lord of the Rings -territory, as one soldier has to try and smuggle few nukes up a roaring volcano whilst avoiding enemies surrounding the mountain.

And in the end, world literally jumps from it's orbit in a scene that looks like it has been directly lifted from the intro sequence of 3rd Rock from the Sun. In horrible, horrible CGI, of course - as is everything in this piece.

This gets an okay score in terms of Asylum films from me. I wasn't disappointed, because this time the dumb cheese translated as entertainment, not a boring snooze fest.

This starts off really bad with the young Asian scientist (obviously a Red Bull addict having an overdose) spinning around a space computer room, then calling his sister to let her know that there was a meteor headed towards earth. This is a really stupid way to start the film because it shows that the inmates indeed running the "asylum" and it doesn't put much confidence in me to have such people in charge of world matters that could impact our future in this solar system. The sight of him offering advice to military officers is just one opportunity to laugh at this, making you hope that when they caught him away, he'll never be seen on screen again. Unfortunately no such luck as the irritation hasn't even begin to strike.

An encounter between submarine officer Jason Brooks and scientist Tia Carrare (who hired her own brother, the irritating little sugar freak as an intern) leads to more idiocy which creates conflicts between science and the navy, neither of which deserve the audience's support. This is pretentious, takes itself way too seriously yet has a juvenile, impish maturity about it that any intelligent adult will see right through and immediately call out. It comes to the point where I have to paraphrase a line from "Airplane!": "I say let it crash!"

An asteroid is going to hit the earth so to avoid the collision the earth is moved. Put plainly like that it sounds silly and it is. The Asylum provides the usual confusing story, laughable dialogue and no characters you care for. The moment it starts the irritation factor begins to rise and never reduces. Poor Robert Davi. Poor Tia Carrere. Poor Tim Russ. Have pity on them for being in such a sub-standard movie. Hope they were paid well as they couldn't have had any artistic satisfaction from appearing in this dreck.

Very bad, but not outright unwatchable.

Contrary to other reviews I found that gay lieutenant to be the ONLY plausible story element.

If you love physics or science in general - do not watch this movie.

Otherwise if you are able to suspend your disbelief so much it floats into outer space at warp speed - you can give it a try.

I enjoyed it *kinda*. It was so bad, it was almost good, but not really. It is definitely above Asylum "average" quality, but I must agree that "it could be worse" is an adequate assessment here, and not a very encouraging one. Maybe it would go better after few beers.

Why is this film on our TV. The acting is not at all convincing. Surely the plot film should unfold gradually, it doesn't make any sense to me😐

It's a super-duper asteroid headed for Earth.

It is so big that nothing on Earth can alter its path, so the plan is to move Earth out of the way by bombing the bejesus out of it along a fault line.

That takes you to 45 minutes into the movie where I gave up. There was 45 minutes left; if it improved massively after that, then I apologize for the low score.

I have to get on with my life, such as it is with the COVID-19 lockdown, but cleaning the bathroom cupboards is preferable to this.

Asteroid headed for earth, can't destroy or move it so we move the planet. Like you're driving a Suzuki Samurai and come upon a 20 ton boulder and decide it's easier to try and move the boulder, than the vehicle. I like the scenes in the submarine when it gets rocked back and forth in one scene, and in another scene, rolled over after getting hit by a tsunami, how the free standing computer monitors, the crew sitting (unstrapped) in office chairs (that are not bolted down), manage to basically stay in one place.