True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

I started laughing after I have read the short summary of this movie in our TV Guide. If a meteor shower comes from one direction and a few of the meteors have hit a small town, tell me: how supposable is it that other parts of this meteor shower will hit the same town? Don't know? You would rather win the lottery 52 times in a year than this would happen! Planet Earth is moving through space with almost 30km/sec. This means: only one minute later the planet and also the town Cottonwood have moved 900km through Space, one hour later it will be 21600km. The only reason why a meteor shower could hit the same town twice would be: this meteor shower might be obsessed "I have to destroy Cottonwood. I have to follow planet earth!" OK, not every movie I like to watch has to be physically correct. I also sometimes switch off my brain and have some fun in front of the TV. But I don't want to see a movie, when reading the short summary tells me, that the screenwriter did not turn on his brain before writing.This comment may contain some grammar mistakes, because English isn't my first language.Gerhard

The second...weather related film I've seen off Syfy was definitely the better.We follow a town which becomes the victim of a meteor shower, which threatens the very Earth itself.Now, I didn't expect much, but the special effects were actually not that bad, some great explosions and cars flipping into the air. The meteors themselves, well let's admit it, they weren't as good as 'Deep Impact' or 'Armageddon', but they were mediocre.The acting wasn't that bad either, some great acting in fact, but like every single other film off SyFy, some scenes were terrible. Now that's a rare, some scenes. Mostly films off SyFy have all terrible scenes. The teenagers however are quite annoying sometimes, particularly at the start when they seemed to hate their parents for no reason. We then find out the Mayor's daughter Emily (Desirée Loewen) doesn't want to move town whilst a sheriff's son Seth (Graham Wardle) is being forced to write to his mother. Why the son doesn't like his mother and why the sheriff split with his wife I don't know, I kind of blacked out. I'm guessing she had an affair. Sheeree J. Wilson does a great job at playing Mayor Anna Davenport-Baxter, but I do feel she comes on to strong at some points, and too weak at others, as does Peter LaCroix as Jack Baxter.Oh, by the way, Anna and Jack's son is dead. We are told this and apparently his ghost is hovering around his mother. Good for him. But seriously, Anna being haunted by her dead son (Zak Ludwig) actually has no impact on the film, there was seriously no point in having that in the film. She wasn't even being haunted! She couldn't see him! There is one scene where you think she sees him, but then again she was probably crying because she was thinking "Oh God we're gonna die,".Oh and my favourite line of the film, when Seth was trapped under a tree and Emily was trying to help him, he says "Come on, if a meteorite can knock down a tree, you should be able to push it with your legs.". Where's his logic in that? Has he felt her leg muscles or something? Probably has, but this tree was massive, where did he get the idea that a girl in her late teens can move a tree that had to have weighed a hundred tonne, give or take.Overall, not a bad stab at an apocalypse style film. Meteors have been done before, but so has everything else.

Apparently this is a sci-fi disaster movie . I use the word apparently because it rarely becomes apparent that its this type of genre . Instead we're treated ( Not the correct word ) to a disease of the week type TVM where a hard working mom juggles a career and angst ridden off spring along with an estranged husband . You'd think that with so much on her plate the last thing she'd need would be a deadly meteorite storm and so the producers of this tripe show her some mercy by not allowing any death defying derring-do until late in to the narrative . Though to be fair they do remind the audience as to what's coming by showing a shower of GCI boulders moving towards Earth . But by this time you'll be struggling to draw breath never mind stay awake When the meteors finally do hit the fan the disease of the week theme continues . It's really overdone as we're shown the community sticking together such as a picket line suddenly breaking up as the downtrodden blue collar proles realise that saving people from a burning supermarket is more important than striking for a living wage . We're even shown a vomit inducing scene in a hospital where a doctor explains to another character what wonderful staff he has because none of them have taken a day off work in 37 years . I'll tell you what - you might want to be absent from the room when a TV station broadcasts this sickly nonsense

I have just seen this film on the Sci-fi channel. I was pleasantly surprised both by the quality of the acting and the strength of the story.The decision to focus on the characters relationships and the every day decisions that can effect us was a brave one. I thought the image of Anna's dead son throughout the film both moving and thought provoking. It was also very interesting to have a film where the ending was really in doubt and that these characters were left on their own by the authorities, a reflection perhaps on events after Hurricane Katrina? All in all a well made, carefully thought out film without the usual stereotypes. Would it have been better with a different ending?