Wonderfully offbeat film!

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

While this is a fairly typical doomsday device movie, it's well executed. There are a minimum of black and white characters, with even the American guns-blazing general having moral ambiguities. It's not hard to predict which characters will die and when, but I found myself rooting for them anyway. The one kind of surprising twist is that the hero doesn't get the girl in the end, because he doesn't survive. Many disaster movies pull even more of a deus ex machina that they would have to otherwise in order for the hero to live through the disaster, but this movie is aware enough of reality that the hero doesn't survive multiple gunshot wounds and probably a buttload of radiation and/or a massive electromagnetic pulse. I approve.

Yes, there was action, and no it wasn't well thought out. OK, that covers the review... (read the other reviews for details) NOW... My issue with this movie is the use of the actors as targets in a shooting gallery. OK, so where is it written that all bad guys have guns (even automatic weapons in England where a sharpened screwdriver is considered a deadly weapon) -BUT- All the good guys NEVER have guns. No, it doesn't matter if they are being shot at. Good guys ALWAYS run past every single gun, and try endlessly to "talk down" the bad guys with guns. This insane plot rule drives me crazy. In the movie, despite the good guys KNOWING they are going after "Terrorists...with guns", they just do not pick up a weapon... not even a sharpened stick. Naturally this results in the good guys ALWAYS getting shot, sometimes over and over again. Yet they never willingly pick up a gun. Same kind of thinking that results in schools, shopping centers and public places of all kinds with "no carry" gun policies being turned into favored terrorist shooting ranges. Perhaps i'm being too harsh, after all it IS supposed to be England after all, with it's "no defending yourself under any circumstances" attitudes,policies and laws. Still, the characters in this movie drop like flies with varying shocked expressions on their faces. After all, everyone knows the best way to deal with terrorists is to talk meaningfully to them. Right? Go ahead, try that, you just may say something memorable that will be remembered forever... on your gravestone.

I can't believe some of the reviews on this.If you are watching this film for anything other than comedy value, what happens when you watch a really good film? Does your head explode?The accents were awful. The acting was worse. the science was shonky. The locations were abysmal. An earlier reviewer stated that they thought they paid attention to the little details. Really? Salisbury Plain in the middle of a forest with mountains in the background. Supposedly British army units in Hummers and some weird hybrid German/Jeep thing. Damn hilarious though!

Just to get this straight, I have absolutely nothing against Syfy Originals in general. Mostly, they're refreshingly irony-free throwbacks to classic drive-in b-movies and those giant monster flicks that Hollywood and independent studios alike tend to neglect. This one, however, was quite different, and not necessarily for the best.I guess my biggest issue, aside from the absolutely worthless protagonist, was the presentation of the story. An amazingly large part of the movie consists of very little more than a group of scientists *observing* the actual location of interest via monitors and meters. They analyze the data and discuss the mysterious threat that's supposed to be rising by the minute with as much melodrama as possible, but the fact remains that all we see is people *talking* about a dangerous situation from a safe distance. It hampers the sense of tension that's needed for a "Countdown to Doomsday" movie to work. It's not necessarily boring as much as it feels like a distraction from what *should* be the real focus, namely the actual sites of the strange phenomena. There are exceptions, of course; some of the later action scenes and special effects sequences really are pretty well executed for a TV movie, but they're only a minuscule portion of the whole.All in all, "Stonehenge Apocalypse" is one of the weaker Syfy Originals I've seen. It's undeniably much more coherent and serious than many of the others, but it thoroughly lacks true excitement and tension. The fact that most of its major plot devices are mere references to established real world pseudo-sciences, inelegantly thrown in there like quotes from their respective Wikipedia articles, certainly doesn't help.