The greatest movie ever made..!

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

There is some good talent here in Meteor, but how this mini-series wasted it was unforgivable. The best and only good thing about it is Christopher Lloyd, more subdued than usual but still makes a conscientious effort, and he's only in it for an hour, maybe that he realised that it was so bad and refused to be part of it. Other talented actors like Jason Alexander and Ernie Hudson also don't have very much to do, they try hard but can't do anything with their material. The rest of the actors are just terrible, Michael Rooker is just embarrassing to watch. It is just sad that the big-names, who actually show talent, have little to do and those who show nowhere near as much talent are given more though that's saying little. Because the characters are cardboard cut-out, made to act interminably obnoxious, and they are very underdeveloped and entirely unsympathetic to the viewer, for a mini-series of this length that is just as inexcusable as wasting the big-names. And the dialogue is vomit-inducing and idiotic with all the characters spouting annoyingly stale clichés, to the extent also of making us feel stupid. The story just rambles on and on, the disaster itself is over-dramatised and there are subplots that take far too long to get going or resolve. What's worse is that most of them are completely irrelevant and just feel like padding, while there is nothing tense, thrilling, suspenseful or even engaging about the story. At best the science is questionable, it felt like the writers were making it on the spot with the audience just feeling perplexed, and the ending is one that you can smell a mile off, that's how predictable it is. The music is basically made up of four different themes and moods and is incredibly repetitive, even worse they are introduced randomly and with no regard of the mood of the scene or what had happened before. While visually and directorially the mini-series is the very meaning of amateurish, there's literally been better effects on the worst of Power Rangers and Disney teen movies/shows, there's nothing interesting, subtle or distinctive about the photography, and the overall look of it is depressingly drab. All in all, absolutely terrible in all senses, committing the sins of wasting any talent there is and not developing characters or dialogue over the length. If it wasn't for Lloyd there would have been no redeeming features. 1/10 Bethany Cox

One of the worst TV films ever!! First off the acting is very, very poor and the best actor in it (Christopher Lloyd) is killed off in the first hour, so the world is left in the hands of a 20 something year old nervous wreck of an assistant which is just not convincing.Secondly there are side story's happening that are also unconvincing such as the hospital blowing up and leaving the main doctor and her son trapped in different parts of it, which takes her 3 hours to realize there is a vent though to the next room.Thirdly there are so many cringe worthy moments in it such as shooting down Meteor's with missiles and the communications dropping out at vital moments.I could go on and on but bottom line do not watch this piece of crap.

The acting in "Meteor" is mostly decent, but that's the only thing it has going for it. It is for that reason I upgraded it from one star to two. I have seen worse movies; in fact, I have seen worse movies on Syfy Channel.The science is laughably bad. The characters are mind-numbingly predictable — absolutely no one does anything even remotely out of character in the entire four hours. There are lengthy subplots interwoven with the main story, but, apart from being poorly crafted in their own right, they also do nothing to advance the plot. It's not a mini-series, it's an episode each of three or four different third-rate TV series thrown into a blender.The subplot with the "bad cop" is especially annoying: it feels like we have to hit pause on the main story every few minutes to have an excuse to show psychos with guns. There's a good guy who's trying to balance dealing with the bad cop and stopping the meteor, but he's pretty marginal to the meteor story line. There's also a "warm and fuzzy" story line, complete with school kids and a hospital, but it lurches from irrelevant to implausible to both at the same time. As for the people who are supposed to be the experts who will save the planet, they have remarkably little expertise, and hardly even seem to have anyone useful on speed-dial.The bottom line is that the entire script was poorly conceived and poorly written. The actors tried valiantly, but ultimately couldn't bring cardboard cutout characters to life.

I'm usually not this rough on a show, but boy, this seemed like a lot of money given over to amateur movie makers. This so bad, it should actually be studied by film making classes - almost everything that can go wrong has gone wrong in this movie.I'm not even sure how to relay how bad this was ... but maybe some examples may help: 1) The old "oops - we ran out of gas" routine was used "twice" to advance two different story lines - can you imagine how bad that looked? 2) The fate of the world hinges on info about to be relayed over a cell phone, but just then, the car enters a mountainous area and loses cell reception (I guess backing up is more annoying than saving life on the planet) ... and then eventually runs out of gas. Of course, they're really out of luck now, but ... miraculously, the cell phone starts ringing.3) A big bad guy named Dwight, who's ready shoot people AND police with terrorist grade weaponry, turns into a puppy dog after the sheriff tells him to "think about it" (which takes him all of 8 seconds).4) Life on earth hinges on the calculations of a 20-something year old girl running around with a laptop. Her qualifications? She's an "assistant" to a scientist. If they told us that she at least had some sort of credentials, that would have helped - but they didn't.5) The "bad guy's never really dead" routine is taken to the extreme. One of the main characters of this story is beyond stupid: instead of killing a guy who has been on a murderous rampage (which almost included his daughter), he puts him in the back seat of his car in mickey-mouse handcuffs ... go figure. It doesn't end there either - there's so much more brainless decision-making involving the bad guy, you eventually want the bad guy to rid the world of "good-guy" morons.6) There's so much incredible dialog ... check this out - the girl wants to use the phone after the wireless lines go down: Man: $50 for the phone.Girl: That's ridiculous. I'm a scientist.She's a scientist??? Oh, OK - I guess that means she's either a superior being or that she's looking for the super-saver rate for scientists. Geeze.I could go on, but it's so nuts it's almost epic. If you're aching for a disaster movie and have absolutely nothing else available, see it only if you have fast-forward capability. It'll save you some of the torture.