Highly Overrated But Still Good

Good concept, poorly executed.

Awesome Movie

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

MEGAFAULT, a TV movie disaster flick, opens with the words that no viewer should ever witness: A SyFy Channel presentation of an Asylum movie. Yep, two of the dumbest purveyors of no-budget trash have teamed up to make an earthquake-themed disaster flick, so what could go wrong?The answer is everything and nothing. This is very much par for the course for such a movie: it's a film without much plot or indeed characterisation, one which gets by instead on a series of repetitive CGI effects of faults and cracks tearing through the ground, swallowing buildings and vehicles. When this happens for the umpteenth time you know that the writers were really struggling to think up anything fresh with this one.Cast-wise, we get Brittany Murphy as the intrepid seismologist heroine; this was one of her last roles before her untimely death and she's not looking at all healthy. Speaking of death, we're treated to another actor with a dead career: Eriq La Salle, formerly of TV's E.R., now treading water in a B-movie swamp. Bruce Davison appears too, contributing yet another adviser type part; I guess he never gets tired of showing up in such productions.The CGI effects are a little better than those found in some other Asylum productions, but they're hardly the stuff of greatness either. Not much really happens during the storyline, and there's never much of a sense of danger, just characters reacting to the latest CGI event taking place in front of them. It's not much fun.

I found this movie on Blu-Ray at a great price and thought I could not go wrong buying it. I was wrong. Most of what is presented is scientifically implausible to the point of distraction. The rest is just plain ridiculous: they sent stealth fighters to intercept a helicopter, really? they look at a fault rupture and declare, "That was a 7.0."The actors performed well considering an underwhelming script and poor concept. As far as the writer and producer go, they should be exiled and deported for so thoroughly wasting our time.The only reason to keep this film in production is so that film students will know what they should NOT do.

WOW!!!! Bad acting. Preposterous plot. Impossible science. Horrible dialogue. Low grade special effects. Hyper-melodrama. Padded scenes. More technical, geographical and continuity errors than can be counted. Yep, this one had all the ingredients for a "B" movie. I love the "B" movies of the 50's and 60's because they are bad and know they are bad, but are presented just for the shear fun of it. Had this made-for-TV movie had that attitude, I would have been all for it. Unfortunately, this one wants to be serious.Now it's just BAD.Even my ten-year-old spotted the problems with the faults chasing cars; the untested sonic wave machine conveniently already up on a satellite ready to save the planet; and the fact that huge quakes were seen destroying buildings, yet when the characters were on the street, there never were any broken windows or debris in any of the backgrounds to suggest something catastrophic had just happened.By the time this one ended, I really was scratching my head as to why anyone invested money to make this thing.

I hate rubbishing peoples work. But.... This film looks great on the packaging, sounds like a great idea - A Mega Fault to rip the world apart. Now, lets get one definition out the way "World - anywhere within the USA" Explosions set off a seismic event triggering earthquakes big enough to rip a gash in the USA. No one else in the world feels it at all; this gap can be seen from space and the rest of the world carry on like nothing happening? Repetition of scenes - I watched it and thought "hang on, I've just seen that". I blinked once and missed the plot, blinked again and missed any form of character development. Didn't have a clue who they were (only the old bloke being in V back in the 80's) didn't know what they were doing and why. There was no effects on how this event changed the rest of the world, er sorry, USA and no sign of a president.I don't think I'll include this on the Wet Sunday list and I beg of all of you who do watch this, Don't make it an impression you have of the late Brittney Murphys work.