The Russians and Americans must work together to survive the up incoming meteor coming to earth in a very standard disaster movie that is completely forgettable.

In considering in when the movie was made, the total quality is not bad except the script. After you expected a minimal satisfaction from a disaster dealing movie, just we can enjoy Sean Connery and Natalie Wood's actings, even Hery Fonda's appearance.

It's almost fasinating especially during the final 30 minutes how the mass destruction of NYC and escaping into the flooded subway is somehow the most boring part of the movie. The pacing is what is the deathblow to this above all else. It's horrifcally bad while everything else is subpar. The first 45 minutes is nothing but talking and talking and more talking about explaining the plot in a boring monotone way. This is also very boring to look at most of the time. The special effects aren't that good and use lots of stock footage and bad paintings. The space shots of the missles, missles hurling towards the meteor, the meteor itself are soooo boring to look at and are slower than a handicapped snail carrying a brick. It's mind boggling how the director looked at this and thought this was exciting and so cool that we had to keep cutting back to it tons of times. The destruction scenes are ok enough I guess except the NYC ending one and probably the best part. There is next to no character devlopment in this. Everyone just explains plot and has no chemistry. It's so evident Connery is just here for a paycheck. The music is barely used and when it is you almost don't even notice it playing. It's amazing howthe ending 30 minutes is the worst part and gets insanely boring and them escaping into the subway it comes out of nowhere and is so out of place and drags terribly. This alternates between talking about expose, show generic destruction, boring space, rinse and repeat. It's insane how boring this gets. The space shots needed to be completely reshot in a more exciting way or not have them at all. Fail Safe (1964) somehow made dots on a screen seem much more riveting than this does showing nuke and massive destruction. This also squanders any Cold War commentary this could've had about nations coming together to set aside their differences because of the poor execution and wanting to show brainless destruction. The first half is oddly enough the better part. Skip this completely. There is way better disaster stuff than this.

It wasn't bad for a 70s flick. Good acting , Good actors, ok script. Worth a watch on a Sunday afternoon

A very good disaster movie starring Sean Connery with a strong supporting cast. Certainly worth watching and very enjoyable, as long as you remember it's from 1979

The only thing it does right is have the entire world involved in the mission.

"Meteor" is a latter day attempt to do a big budget version of the B-movie Sci-Fi ones from the fifties in the post Star-Wars era of big budgets and special effects. And in color. It stars Sean Connery and Natalie Wood along with a lot of other big names. The world is facing destruction from a large meteor headed towards us. It's part Science Fiction and part disaster movie and you can see remnants of both, but it doesn't work as either. Sean Connery is supposed to be our top scientist in handling this but he just walks around, talks a lot and doesn't actually do anything. Natalie Wood plays a translator for Connery's Russian counterpart, Brian Keith, in an attempt to say something about the Cold War. The special effects aren't bad for the time period but the movie is long and slow moving and fails to develop any suspense. Natalie Wood is good in an understated part, Connery looks like he'd rather be elsewhere. It's a time passer, but nothing else.

If it was any slower it would be backing up.

If there could be a worse Disaster Movie than When Time Ran Out....this is it. Yet the Sound Mixers of The Academy decided it was one of the top 5 in sound from 1979. Who did who favors?

I just watched part of this film again because i was trying to relax. Yeah, it's a disaster movie that is perfect before bed time because it will put you right out.....zzzzz. I saw this as a kid and I guess it was OK at the time. Looming question: A comet is going to cross through the asteroid belt, is the first instinct of NASA to position a spaceship close to where the event is going to take place? ha. As bad as that whole idea and scene was, it was probably the best scene in the entire film. The rest is just like a drama with a ton of talking that is guaranteed to put you right out. What is up with the talking scenes where they suddenly crash cut to the asteroid looming through space with that weird bass sound and then immediately cut back to the same person talking? The editing in this film is like Bat Shit crazy if you can do that at 1 mph, which is about as fast as the film moves. Like I said, turn on before you are going to bed, you will not make it to the third act.

Terrible movie, long boring scenes of connery in meetings and pouting because his SATELLITE was pointed in the wrong direction. this cold war flop has the audacity to cut in stock footage from at least 2 other identifiable movies, avalanche 1978 godzilla movies. this movie is barely watchable. The missles are the star of this movie, they have the most personality of all.

yeah i have to say this film was a blunder from the usually great sean connery. he was the tops in zardoz

Unwatchable tosh with some of the most abysmal SFX ever allowed on to celluloid. Sean Connery looks like he regrets every moment.

This is a science-fiction disaster movie set in the Cold War era with surprisingly good picture quality and special effects. I disagree with most of the reviews, which are negative; the cast is outstanding and the storyline is more interesting and complex than usual for this kind of movies (e.g., Armageddon).

Tengo esta cinta en super 8, dividida en tres carretes, que me habré visto bastantes veces de lo que mantengo un buen recuerdo, y el miedo que me hizo pasar mi mente infantil pensando que si esto pasaba, daba igual donde estuvieras, no podías saber donde te caería el pedrusco!!! Vista hoy en dia va tan desfasada que ni merece la pena comentarla. Yo, padres míos, agradezco lo del super 8, pero no había otras pelis que traer a casa??

Bottom of the barrel, hollywood trash from the heyday of disaster movies. This could be the worst one I've ever seen. The acting, the writing and the direction is piss poor. The special effects here make the Land of the Lost 온라인카지노추천 show look like Jurassic Park. Even as a class assignment, I could barely get through this.

Absolute rubbish, but fun. Consider this a 1970's Deep Impact with 1950's effects!

One of the last of the many disaster films made in the 1970s, this suffers from a rather tired script.

On a Monday, ex-NASA scientist "Dr. Paul Bradley" is in the middle of captaining a boat in a race when a US Coast Guard cutter comes up along side. Somebody on the Coast Guard boat informs him that they have orders to find him, and they will block their path if he does not comply. He is then whisked away to Washington, DC. When he arrives to where he is wanted, he is not happy. However, he quickly learns that a manned space probe was destroyed by a large asteroid fragment after the larger one from which it came was struck by a recently discovered comet. Those he meet with inform him that they need him to come up with a way in using "Goliath," a Top Secret nuclear missile platform "Dr. Bradley" created for just such an emergency, but was turned into a defensive weapon now in orbit over Russia, to destroy a five mile wide asteroid fragment now hurling toward Earth at 35,000 MPH (which, in reality, is too slow for it to move toward Earth in a week). Eventually, he figures out that "Goliath" does not have the fire power to destroy the enormous fragment, which is being lead by smaller fragments that also place our planet in danger. Then, during a meeting with the US "President" (Henry Fonda), he learns that the US is aware of a Soviet version of his creation, which is called "Peter the Great." It is then requested that the "President" contacts the Soviet government to try to get them join forces. However, a military official (Martin Landau) is very vocal about being against the plan since he does not trust the Soviets. Eventually, the Soviets agree to send Russian scientist "Dr. Alexi Dubov" (Brian Keith) upon "Dr. Bradley's" request to Washington. He is accompanied by his lovely translator, "Tatiana Nikolaevna Donskaya" (Natalie Wood), who learned English at a young age. Now, the Cold War enemies must come together, put aside their differences, and figure out a way to save mankind, and the planet from a devistating threat from outer space. There are many problems with this movie. First, there are a lot of scientific mistakes. For example, the meteor (actually an asteroid due to its size) is moving at 35,000 MPH. In reality, at that speed, the rock would not reach Earth for about six months. Another mistake is that Mission Control talk with the crew of the space probe (actually a model of Skylab) in real time. In reality, there would be a big lag in time for both sides to receive the other's transmission due to the probe being millions of miles from Earth. Also, the tale of the comet is seen behind the comet. In reality, this can't happen because the tail is always away from the sun. Therefore, the tail should be to the comet's left (away from the sun), not behind it. There are some good performances in this movie. I personally liked the friction between "Dr. Bradley" and NASA official "Harry Sherwood" (Karl Malden). One performance that stands out, but he's really not in the movie enough, is Landau as the anti-Soviet US military officer who is totally against the partnership -- especially when, in his eyes, the danger was not as bad as it was being reported to him. You really think that he was thinking about either walking out of the room when he learned of the plan to talk with the Soviets, or jump over the table and strangle those suggesting the partnership. I also enjoyed Keith, who was used to sometimes lighten up the mood with some humorous moments -- one of which is where he speaks a three-word sentence in English (the rest of the time, he is speaking Russian). One big problem is character development. Some major players are not on screen enough to developed, while some of the on-screen relationships are barely expanded. In the movie, it is noticeable that "Dr. Bradley," who is separated from his wife (Bibi Besch, in a cameo), is attracted to "Donskaya." However, they only get one scene together where they get to know each other. The rest of the time, she is either translating for "Dr. Dubov" or tanslating for the Americans. Now, remember, this movie was made and released in 1979. There is no CGI in this movie. Therefore, we are stuck with models against a green screen. In a few scenes, it is pretty obvious that there is a green screen. In fact, I remember seeing one of the asteroid fragments with an odd green outline. In this particular scene, the film itself seemed to have been a bit grainy. It is also pretty obvious that the ships and asteroid fragments are models. As the asteroid fragments start to enter Earth's gravitational pull, the action really begins. However, there really is no wow factor, and the resulting affects are pretty predictable. You also get more big-scale models and some green screen effects for these scenes. One of these scenes in particular is something I feel I need to mention, especially if you were seriously affected by the events of September 11. One particularly large fragment strikes pre-9/11 New York City. In many skyline scenes is, obviously, the World Trade Center Twin Towers (in one skyline scene, it seemed that the towers were larger than they should have been for some reason). The first thing this particular fragment strikes is the Twin Towers, and they show a close-up of them collapsing upon impact. I would suggest you skip over this particular, though brief scene if you still have a problem remembering the attacks on the buildings. There are many times in this movie which seem to drag. Some of these scenes are immediately following the affects of the asteroid fragments striking the planet. These, however, are pretty brief. I read online that John Williams was originally signed on to produce the soundtrack of the movie, but pulled out and was replaced. Though pretty good, the music is a few notches below what Williams could have done for this movie. None of the instrumentals are all that memorable if you ask me. Despite the flaws, this one could be a good one to check out when you come across it on HBO or on your cable service's On Demand feature (Comcast had it in their On Demand Free Movies section when I saw it and wrote this review). I would not change your schedule around so you can see it though.

A real stinker. Haven't seen anything this bad in a long while. No wonder I totally missed it back in '79. This flick has to be the worst of the worst of the bad disaster movies of the '70's.