utgard14 Americans and Russians must put aside their differences to fight meteors. Mediocre disaster flick with the obligatory "all-star cast" these things tended to have. Most of the cast, which includes big stars like Sean Connery, Henry Fonda, Karl Malden, and Natalie Wood, only marginally embarrass themselves. They can't do much with the poor script. The worst performance in the film comes from Martin Landau, who is so ridiculously hammy in this I'm surprised he ever worked again. The best performance is that of Brian Keith, who's very amusing as the Soviet scientist Dr. Dubov. The special effects are laughably bad at times. I could live with that if the rest of the movie weren't so damned boring. That's Meteor's biggest fault - it takes what should be an exciting, nail-biting premise and turns it into an uninvolving Cold War melodrama. To be clear, I don't hate disaster movies. There were a lot of entertaining movies of this type made in the '70s, when this fad was at its height of popularity. Unfortunately, Meteor isn't one of them.

StuOz A meteor is about to hit earth.Not to be confused with Irwin Allen's City Beneath The Sea (1971), another disaster movie about a giant rock that is about to hit the earth.The director of Meteor, Ronald Neame, also directed The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and you can hear the guy talk for nearly two hours on the DVD commentary for The Poseidon Adventure. He comes over as a guy who knows his stuff and for this reason you have to wonder what went wrong when he directed Meteor?I am not saying that Meteor is bad, far from it, in fact I would rather watch this than a few of the disaster films that came out in the 1990s (Twister, Deep Impact). The wonderfully dated special effects (no CGI, great!) steal this film and it is fun seeing Karl Malden do two disaster movies in one year (he was also in Beyond The Poseidon Advenure in 1979).In a nutshell: Meteor is okay.

memorable-name There is a Meteor on collision course with Earth and if we don't stop it then, well its bye bye for a lot of us! Meteor is a disaster movie that came out in 1979 when the genre was winding down people had, had enough of buildings collapsing, airplanes crashing and boats capsizing which is part of the reason I think this movie has been ridiculed ever since, sure the special effects aren't great and the use of stock footage is a bit cheap but for its time they aren't that bad. The story line is fairly interesting trying to get America and Russia to combine its nuclear weapons to destroy the large rock during the Cold War wouldn't of been easy and the tension between the two groups is well presented. The acting from all involved including Sean Connery (getting shaken but not stirred), Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda and Karl Malden is OK but nothing special and almost tongue in check which is probably the best way to take this film.Before the daddy rock takes aim, we get baby ones coming along for the ride causing snow storms, avalanches, tidal waves and the destruction of New York City, perhaps a few more would of helped things move along quicker.The ending is quite predictable but then we couldn't have the rock destroying us all could we? It is probably drawn out a bit to long and at this point in the film I thought the scenes back on earth with our stars clambering there way through subways was more interesting.So all in all, yes its a bit corny, yes its a bit camp and yes it certainly isn't a great film but on the other hand, it should hold your attention and isn't that bad either, if it had been released a few years earlier when disaster was big business then I do think it would of been a better received film and is at least as good as most other disaster movies from the 1970s.

pcgamerquadcore A 1979 classic Doomsday film. It's a little dated, but very enjoyable for the Scifi Buff. It has a list of top of line Actors from the 1940's all the way up to the 1970's. Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith,and Henry Fonda. I like the soundtrack, It has that 1970's synthesize music that's just classic. The story line is good for it's time , even though it's kinda out of date scientific wise. The special effects are also kinda dated, But hey it was the 1970's, no heavy duty computer special effects like we have today. I give it 8 out of 10. Like most 1970's dooms day films of the time, you just have to take a little grain of salt for the dated look of the film. If you can get past that, your in for one enjoyable movie that you just might want to add to your film collection.