Too much of everything

So much average

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Only two small things stop Post Impact from scoring any lower, and those are Dean Cain, who tries his best though he has been much better, and the dog, who is adorable, very well-trained and certainly the best actor in Post Impact. Which is not entirely complimentary seeing as the rest of the acting is so stiff that wooden planks are more animated in comparison. The worst was Joanna Taylor, a total blank and there is nothing appealing about her. They are saddled by the shallow ciphers that the movie passes for characters and some of the most stilted dialogue, that is far too heavy on the small-talk, of any movie seen recently. Post Impact is also edited in a frenzied and unfinished manner and the special effects are on par with some of the worst effects from the 70s-80s. In short, very cheap and out of date. The music is generic and repetitive and the sound and sound effects are very muddied, the gun shots lack authenticity and any crucial dialogue is made difficult to hear or properly understand. Even worse is the story, plodding and ridiculous, with an out-of-place sex scene, one of the stupidest endings of any movie from the past ten years or so and countless mistakes and goofs that take away from everything. It was also not easy to tell what the basic story was, and the movie itself probably didn't either, seeing how much it jumped around to the point of near-incoherence. On the whole, with the exceptions of Cain and the dog a waste of time, though personally there are worse movies out there. 2/10 Bethany Cox

i didn't mind this movie.it's not the best movie i've ever seen,and it certainly isn't the worst.it's basically about post apocalyptic world after comet has destroyed much of the earth.most of the movie takes place after the comet has struck,so there are no big budget special effects for the disaster itself.i thought the filmmakers did a good job showing what the world might look like after much of it is decimated.there is more drama than anything in this movie,but i thought it was done well.i didn't get bored.i thought the acting was good enough,and there was a bit of action.i don't think the movie was original,but so what.most of the stuff churned out nowadays isn't.in my opinion,"Post Impact" is a 6/10.

When Dean Cain is the lead actor in a TV movie, your hopes aren't high for the quality of the flick. Surprisingly however, Cain gives a decent (if uninspiring) performance, and more than any other, it's the performance of sexual interest Joanna Clark that hurts the film the most. The former model has less on screen appeal than a squashed tomato, and the idea of her as a tough-as-nails ex-SAS operative is absurd to the point where more militant reviewers might consider it an insult to the group. Clark's best scene takes place in a public shower, where her breasts do most of the acting.Luckily (at least for her), Clark is not the stand-alone fault of this film. No one would expect the dialogue to be Sorkin-esquire, however even the most cynical would have hoped for something that rose above the level of a nine-year old. There is neither the lighting-pacing of The West Wing nor the accessibility of a Bruckheimer flick. Put simply, the exchange between the characters makes you wonder at the possibility of basements filled with monkeys and typewriters.For movies which fail to the degree that PI does, the most obvious target for blame is the director, and in this case that's Christoph Schrewe whose biggest Western credit to date is Lexx. But with such a lacklustre script and a casting director that one can only guess had personal reasons for wanting to tank this film, you wonder what the best result could have been.You could do worse than watch PI, but no matter when it is shown on TV, you could always do better on another channel.

I could probably make a career out of writing reviews about rubbish SciFi Channel movies. They just continue to churn them out, again and again, all equally dire and missing that elusive (well to the SciFi Channel boys, anyway) quality that makes them decent movies. Instead they incorporate ridiculous notions, scenes and dialogue, mix in terrible effects and actors made out of chipboard and then wonder why their efforts don't work.PI is another example of this. The movie doesn't suck terribly but, with just a little attention to detail they could have made it so much better.For starters, Dean Cain plays a man who is so dim that he gets on a plane about to take off whilst leaving his wife and daughter on the tarmac. You didn't need much brains to see what was going to happen, but good ole Dean seemed to lack them. After this he becomes so driven to return and find his wife and daughter that he willingly shags any woman who bats an eyelid at him. Then, in the absolutely most two-faced irony that I've ever seen, he straight away thereafter pulls out a photo of his missus and kid and looks mournfully at it! Gimme a frickin' break! Did no one do a test screening of this before it went out? And what was with the "I tried to reach my wife eight times" bit? We're talking about maybe a 800 mile trip, in Arctic conditions, on foot. Very hard, yes...Impossible to achieve after eight attempts? I don't think so. Didn't he learn anything from the previous trips? Like take more food, maybe, or an extra sweater! Jeepers! Actually, I'm being unfair here. The conditions are not merely Arctic-like. They are some SciFi Channel bozo's vision of Arctic-like conditions. Perhaps on those prior attempts, good old Dean was turned back by the randomly upthrusting spires of ice that will appear after a meteor strike induces an ice age. We all know that will happen, right? Or more likely the fact that, three years after such an event, the weather is still uniformly a white-out blizzard may have been partly responsible for his failures. And don't get me started on the fact that the clouds obscuring the sun seem to be centred (again, after three years) only over Europe, the impact site.Then we have Nigel Bennet's character. A man who can't decide if he likes Dean Cain's guy, or hates him. One time his switch seemed so bizarre it was as if he had a split-personality or something.And then there is the rocket-sled, who's purpose (other than to provide a stupid effect) is a total mystery. It zips about briefly in a barely-controlled manner and has no real function, other than to well.....nothing really.And the strange lack of frost breath in -50 Celsius temperatures. Or the fact that (in the aforementioned blizzard conditions) no one wears goggles or has even the faintest trace of frost about their faces, despite not being correctly protected.The final insult to the intelligence that this film delivers is his whole premise - that only one place on the entire earth has the technology and clever enough people to stop the deadly (tm) microwave satellite from firing. Christ! No one else anywhere in the whole world has a satellite dish and a computer capable of cracking the control codes for it? We're all doomed! Couldn't they just have sent a nuke up there to fry it? Stupid writing, by stupid people, for stupid people.It's all rather lame really. Another SciFi craptacular. These style of films are relics of the past glory years of video, when anything seemed good for no other reason than because "you could watch it on tape". Gasp! Nowadays they look just like what they really are. Cheaply produced, poorly acted, poorly directed and poorly written.Oh joy! Bring on the next SciFi hack job. I can hardly wait.