Too much of everything

It is a performances centric movie

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Based on his exhaustive analysis the world's foremost astrophysicist named "Dr. Austin Shepard" (Peter Fonda) concludes that the sun will turn into a supernova within a week which will cause the destruction of all life on earth. Not wishing to cause any panic he notifies a few colleagues in other parts of the world and quietly goes to a remote location to spend his last days. Unfortunately, his disappearance causes immediate concern to his staff along with suspicion by several intelligence agencies most notably the National Intelligence Organization (NIO) who dispatches "Special Agent Lisa Delgado" (Tia Carrere) to investigate. Not long afterward, the esteemed colleagues of Dr. Shepard are rounded up by the NIO along with another astrophysicist by the name of "Dr. Chris Richardson" (Luke Perry) to analyze the accuracy of Dr. Shepard's work. Meanwhile several natural disasters caused by solar flares wreck havoc upon the earth which increases speculation and turmoil throughout the world. Along with that, a serial killer escapes from prison and is targeting the woman who testified against him—"Brooke Richardson" (Jessica Brooks)—the wife of Dr. Richardson. At any rate, rather than detail the entire plot and risk spoiling the movie for those who haven't seen it, I will just say that this turned out to be rather disappointing overall. Not only was it a bit too long (172 minutes) but it also has some incredibly slow moments combined with several subplots which didn't seem to add much to the main plot. It almost seemed like the director (John Harrison) was totally confused about what to keep in the film and what to edit out so he didn't bother to cut anything. Be that as it may, although I liked Tia Carrere, I didn't particularly care for the performances of any of the other actors. That said, this film has too many weaknesses for me to rate it higher than I have. Below average.

Almost as funny as Robot Monster, or any of the magnificent Ed Wood Classics, but without the deep scientific grasp of those earlier films.Read a dozen or so reviews -- the reviewers put a lot more into their posts than anyone connected with this incredible turkey -- I didn't see any review mention that our sun can't supernova, it isn't the right kind of star. It can nova, and its furthest expansion will reach the orbit of the inner planets, probably out to earth, but will not fill the whole solar system, as stated by one of the characters.Great observation by one of the reviewers on how, after surviving in those Phoenix locations, the lucky few come to the surface and get to work on constructing a new sun. Excellent! And naturally in an actual nova there most certainly won't be anyone coming up, and probably no earth remaining to come up from -- but also no sun, and that wasn't comprehensible to anyone involved with this nonsense. No one in the whole project who knew any science at all, with tens of millions of dollars to burn -- pun definitely intended.During the opening scenes I thought the story would involve the supernova of some distant giant star finally reaching our solar system seven million later. Silly me, that would have been far too stuck in boring reality.The weirdest part is from start to finish I couldn't stand any of the characters. Can't say that about any of the Ed Wood masterpieces.

This is possibly the worst movie made in the last decade. Some movies I realise are deliberately bad in order to attract a following as a cult movie or similar, but this one gives the impression it was intended as a serious movie. It is awful. I endured over 2 1/2 hours of this just to see if it could get any worse. In the end I was unable to bring myself to watch any more. Everything about it is awful. And if you are an Australian it is doubly bad because it they blamed it on us! It is so full of geographic, not to mention scientific, biological, theological, geological, ecological any everything else-logical errors I was left dumbfounded - and it goes on and on seemingly forever, having you look forward to the ad breaks. How anyone can escape from a prison in Pretoria (South Africa) and get to Sydney (Australia) in just a few hours by car beggars belief. It is total rubbish from start to finish. And even the special effects look like they were done using a freeware software package!Watch 30 minutes or so just to see how bad it is, but for the sake of your sanity, please do not watch the whole movie...

Ditto what everyone else said. About halfway through I was tempted to start MST3King this film (my husband & I do this a lot on dumb movies). Plot, acting, scenery and fake Aussie accents have already been well covered. But...what is the deal with Dr (did he get his PhD from one of those schools you see ads for on late-night TV?) Chris Robinson is trying to protect his family? "Whoa! There's a mad rapist/murderer after my womenfolk, and the power went out, so how about I go out into the dark foggy night to start the genny, taking only a handgun and a flashlight so the Evil Convict can see where I am? And for good measure, how about I find the genny and don't bother to peer around to make sure said Evil Guy isn't about to conk me on the head?" And the Evil Guy wasn't the brightest bulb on the string, either. If he really wants the womenfolk, why doesn't he take the gun he just picked up and pop Luke, er, Phony PhD Chris? No, instead he conks him on the head, picks up the gun, and WALKS AWAY! I don't write screenplays, but maybe I oughta try. I could do better than this with a bad hangover.