Too many fans seem to be blown away

Absolutely brilliant

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Daddy's a hero, mum is a screaming lady, son has a bad haircut. Of course, there's a black president of the USA. A lots of scientists are repeating "Oh my god!". But wait, the Russian submarine is coming to help!!! What else is there? Action scenes are ruined by the bad CGI. And some of the actors don't even know how to play dead. I don't know if there is a quota how many disaster movies SyFy channel must release in one year, but their every movie is awful. Same predictable and ridiculous scripts, same lousy acting, same low-budget CGI, and, of course, pretty same happy end. Sometimes it seems to me that they didn't have enough money to make a TV show, so they put it all into 90 minutes TV movie.

Gripping science fiction film that doesn't let go until the stunning climax. Jack Coleman gives one of his finest performances as the one person that can stop the horror of a polar storm that threatens human life. With surprisingly good special effects and a script that is both intelligent and insightful, this film offers a plausible scenario where the terror depicted brings out the best and worst in humanity. The tension builds and the suspense becomes unendurable as the film's story takes us on a spectacular thrill ride. Let the audience judge if this motion picture is actually a cautionary tale regarding global warming but the suggestion is hard to ignore.

Well, this was a fun film all and all. Jack Coleman did a great job in one of his first lead roles in a feature film, like a really good job. Apart from that, the rest of the cast were great too, I particularly liked the scene of the mugger car jacking them in broad daylight, well played.For the budget, 9/10.Overall, 5.5-6, because like many said, it has too many loopholes and the continuity team could have briefed over this script a few more times, hell a joint smoking monkey could have fixed some of the errors, but one writers bad attempt at an exciting action scene might be a visual effects artists opportunity of a lifetime, or an actors golden shot for their reel.The humour is far and few between, but it has its moments and it's pretty genuine, for the most part.Enjoy it as a fun B budget disaster movie of 2009.

This movie is along the lines of most Sci-Fi Channel movies, but definitely a tad better - mostly because it tackles a different theme (magnetic storms / polar shift) and has a good lead character.The basic setup of the story is that a fragment of a comet has hit earth and strange electrical storms are popping up in multiple locations. There are two sub-stories: (1) a scientist (Jack Coleman from the TV series "Heroes") tries to warn the government that the storms are going to get worst, not better and (2) the scientist's son and wife are trying to escape an area hit by one of the storms.One thing that's very impressive is that the story can be effectively told within the budgetary constraints typical to these types of movies. The filmmakers put just the right amount into effects (simple, but passable), locations (small towns/open roads) and the number of characters (very few) to make it work.Furthermore, Jack Coleman and Holly Dignard (who plays his wife) are decently interesting to watch - so that helps. Both carry an air of seriousness that helps keep the atmosphere of the movie in urgency mode.If you're sick of the channel's overused themes (mutant undead/rat/insect/etc.), then this is a step up from that. It's not really good or great, but if you're hunting for sci-fi on TV and nothing else is on ... might as well watch this.