I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

I'm not sure exactly what I just watched.Okay, based on someone else's (the main protagonist) data , a scientist has figured out the sun is going to go supernova within a couple months. Never mind our sun is projected to die out as a red giant instead of exploding, but let's just go with it.So, we've got government agents wandering around, trying to scoop up those people who will have been determined to possess the "necessary" skill sets if there are any survivors left (a la' a Noah's Ark kind of thing) who can rebuild the civilization. How an FBI agent qualifies, I don't know. And of course, there are people who don't want to be herded into underground sanctuaries. Add to it, the main protagonist's wife and daughter are being hunted by an escaped rapist. I suppose to use the sup-plot of the wife being virtually helpless due to her father's abuse of her and her mother in her childhood. All feed into her throwing away her psychoses, become strong, and an excellent marksman (you figure out what happens next).So, after awhile the hero figures out his data on the age of the sun was incorrect, due to using a plus sign instead of a minus sign in one of the equations, so it's not going to explode anytime soon. And somehow, miraculously, all the plasma, meteors, etc. that the sun has been throwing at the Earth stops once he figures out his mathematical mistake. Not a single eruption. It's a miracle, I tell you.Add in some laughable CGI (particularly when St Louis gets destroyed - which still has the old, cookie-cutter Busch Stadium 2 instead of the new Busch Stadium 3), and the dizziness hasn't a chance of dissipating.Stay away. Stay far away.

I've seen many cheesy movies before, but this one takes the cake. It is known that in movies you have to take certain liberties when it comes to science and plausibility to make it work. I got this in a four pack "Sci Fi Collector's Set" from Sam's Club, I wanted to see it because my hometown was shown on fire on the box. I didn't necessarily have high hopes for it, but my God I've seen better effects and acting from elementary school plays.The plot was confusing, with the writer's almost unable to stick to a centralized idea. I didn't even realize this was meant to take place in Australia because of all the holes in that part of the story until I read it here. I've never been to Australia, but the gun laws and lack of death penalty are pretty well known. I don't expect movies, particularly made for TV movies, to be perfect on this kind of stuff, but a little effort of any kind would have helped. In honesty I missed the point of the sub-plot convicted killer, it didn't add anything to the movie.At the end they say "To Be Continued", apparently only the first half was on this particular DVD set, that's fine with me, if the second half is anything like the first, I'd rather not waste my time, I've got access to YouTube and can get more convincing and entertaining movies on it. The only good scene in the entire movie was the destruction of St. Louis, MO. They got that scene looking pretty cool. . .why is it the only somewhat coherent thing in the movie--do they hate St. Louis or something, is that why they took time to make Busch Stadium look like Busch Stadium and the Arch look real, I'll forgive that there are stationary boats including a Casino and a McDonald's boat that apparently knew the meteors were coming as they had moved somehow, and that the bridges that lead from Illinois to St. Louis were also missing, but I find it interesting they got the look of St. Louis fairly accurate, and the rest of the movie looks nothing like the cities they represent. . .Just a terrible movie, terrible acting, I actually got a few laughs which kept it from a one, but I shouldn't be laughing at a destruction of the Earth story. . .

I actually stopped watching this movie about an hour in. I think I will wait for the Mystery Science Theater version. I don't know what I can say about this movie that is positive. It was nice to see Emma Samms, still looking hot. I did like the blond bartenders outlook, doesn't matter what happens next, only what you are doing now. And I do remember some of my college astronomy, enough to know our sun wouldn't supernova. I could have at least over looked that if the whole thing had been presented better. I don't understand why the subplot about the murderer either, total waste of time. Maybe a re-edit might help, but I doubt it.Oh well, at least I didn't buy it!

Why, oh why, do I keep getting suckered by promotional trailers for DVDs? Anyway, if you have seen the promo trailers for this film, be warned: they are clearly concerning another film never made, brief clips of which showing up in this one for no discernible reason whatsoever.The principle problem here is a script that thinks it's a remake of "The Day After" but which would fit just about any daytime soap-opera. Since the premise of the film derives from astro-physics, the finale - a typically empty 'happy ending', having absolutely no grounding in any science whatsoever - makes no sense whatsoever.Although the film actually avoids religion, let's put the matter in religious terms for clarification: Imagine Judgment Day; and God is really pee-ed off and decides no one is worth saving. Suddenly, Peter Pan's Tinkerbell pops up and reminds God that if he really really believes, creation can be saved. God smiles down on a half-dozen soap-opera stars (no, they haven't repented, what's to repent?), and suddenly we're all back in Eden.... - Scientifically speaking, that's "Supernova".What brilliant con-artist convinced anybody this film could be made? And who are the emotionally troubled people who would like this garbage? By the way, if you're wondering whether one could watch this turkey all the way through, the answer is no; after giving it some 20 minutes, sheer boredom demanded I started skipping scenes sequentially trying to find something interesting to watch. I didn't. But I did watch the whole of the finale to see if there was anything important I'd missed. There wasn't.And there wouldn't be anything important missed if you skipped the whole film.