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Milkwater (2020)
Too annoying for words
The acting and technical aspects were top-notch, but the main character is so annoying as to be completely unsympathetic, so much so that the humor falls flat with a dull thud. Not only did I not laugh out loud, I didn't even break a half-hearted smile. If Milo were my Facebook friend, I would block her without hesitation.
Meteor (2009)
Not the absolute worst made-for-TV movie ever
The acting in "Meteor" is mostly decent, but that's the only thing it has going for it. It is for that reason I upgraded it from one star to two. I have seen worse movies; in fact, I have seen worse movies on Syfy Channel.
The science is laughably bad. The characters are mind-numbingly predictable — absolutely no one does anything even remotely out of character in the entire four hours. There are lengthy subplots interwoven with the main story, but, apart from being poorly crafted in their own right, they also do nothing to advance the plot. It's not a mini-series, it's an episode each of three or four different third-rate TV series thrown into a blender.
The subplot with the "bad cop" is especially annoying: it feels like we have to hit pause on the main story every few minutes to have an excuse to show psychos with guns. There's a good guy who's trying to balance dealing with the bad cop and stopping the meteor, but he's pretty marginal to the meteor story line. There's also a "warm and fuzzy" story line, complete with school kids and a hospital, but it lurches from irrelevant to implausible to both at the same time. As for the people who are supposed to be the experts who will save the planet, they have remarkably little expertise, and hardly even seem to have anyone useful on speed-dial.
The bottom line is that the entire script was poorly conceived and poorly written. The actors tried valiantly, but ultimately couldn't bring cardboard cutout characters to life.