Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

This movie is an example of why I stopped watching movies altogether for over 3 years. Lately I have had a lot of spare time, so I have gotten back into movies again. The problem with most movies, is that they are excruciatingly dumbed-down to a 6th grade level of comprehension. After taking a few years away from movies, it has become crystal clear how dumbed-down movies truly are. This movie is an example because of the terrible, over dramatized acting, stupid decisions by the characters, predictable story line, and predictable everything for that matter. Bad movies (most movies) require either the characters to make extraordinarily blind and ignorant decisions, or predictable, over the top or completely unrealistic events in order to create conflict and move the plot forward. These factors then greatly effect the continuity and realism of a movie. If I wanted to watch a bunch of nonsense, I would watch cartoons instead! For example, in the movie, as the characters are driving to the North Pole (Yes, the North Pole), the outdoor temperature is so hot that it is blowing vehicles up.. however, while they are traveling, sweating like beasts in 130ish degree heat, and their truck explodes (after they escaped with only a second to spare - ridiculously predictable), the characters are almost all wearing layers of LONG SLEEVED shirts, pants, and one is even wearing a hoodie JACKET. Now somebody PLEASE tell me, how or WHO in the right mind, while directing or producing this film, had the bright idea to have the characters wear long sleeve shirts, pants and jackets in the sweltering heat??? Any person with half a brain would know that if this situation was occurring in real life, people would be wearing the least amount of clothing possible, but not sweaters and jackets!! This is only one example. Judging by the sheer ignorance that produces most films these days, I honestly believe that even myself would be able to produce and direct a movie that would easily blow at least 2/3 of all movies out of the water.

Being a fan of sci-fi films, I was initially attracted by the title, but as it appeared this was going to be yet another near-disaster movie of the "asteroid/comet/meteor about to hit the earth and wipe out humanity, but Hooray! America will save the world" genre which has been done so many times before, I nearly didn't bother to continue watching, and with hindsight I'm sorry I did. However, what did sway me was the unusual premise that the asteroid's gravitational effect as it narrowly missed the earth pulled our planet nearer to the sun. (It wasn't clear whether Earth was continuing to approach the sun or whether it was simply in a stable new orbit, but maybe I was losing concentration if that was stated.) However, while raging fires are sweeping across the globe and two rival groups of characters (the goodies and the baddies) are desperately trying to get to a plane to fly them to the Arctic, the possibility is aired that the gravitational force of the other planets might pull the earth back into its proper orbit, and the sign that this has happened would be that rain would once again start to fall. So when the rival factions get to the airport and learn that the plane - their last hope of survival - has crashed, a battle takes place and surprise, surprise - the goodies win. But just as our heroes seem doomed to burn up anyway, Hey presto! Down comes the rain! Gosh - those planets worked pretty fast to get the earth back in place in such un-cosmic haste! My advice is: don't waste an hour and a half watching this!

Although the idea was interesting, I was expecting it to be worse considering it was low budget. In my opinion, Meltdown: Days of Destruction is neither bad or good as an overall film, though it has assets that fall in both categories. What I did like about the film was that the acting was surprisingly better than average. Amanda Crew is beautiful and not too bland, Vincent Gale and Stefanie Von Pfetton are good and Casper Van Dien does his best to make his performance more than just a good-looking guy with non-existent acting skills which is something that has been plaguing a number of low-budget films I've seen in recent memory. I did also like the nice settings and the editing wasn't too choppy, while the music is not too over-bearing. The concept is also an interesting one. However, there are things that don't work. The most exciting Meltdown: Days of Destruction gets is towards the end, but around the middle it is rather sluggish and generic with predictable storytelling, very unlikely science and cheesy dialogue. The effects are minimal and while I have seen cheaper ones, in all honesty the effects here are not great in look(especially the meteor) and don't generate any sorts of thrills. The characters I didn't really engage with, some of them don't have much to do and the types of characters involved are reminiscent of the obligatory clichés you'd find in a SyFy original disaster movie. All in all, not a complete meltdown but not particularly much to it either. 5/10 Bethany Cox

I would rather have someone cut out my eyeballs with a razor blade than have to watch this movie again. I watched it from start to end thinking it couldn't get any worse....BUT IT DID. The writers and producers should be slapped for putting this kind of crap on television. The actors are ALL terrible. Get out of Hollywood you fools and go work at McDonalds sweeping the floors and emptying the trash. Anyone that thinks this movie is even remotely decent should be hung. They are an embarrassment to humanity. To think we have soldiers putting their lives on the line for anyone that produces this kind of inane garbage. Makes me embarrassed to say I'm an American.