Quantum Apocalypse (2010)

Scyfy originals are never going to meet critical acclaim but often they hold a certain charm about them that makes them watchable in that dumb viewing type of way.Sadly Quantum Apocalypse doesn't have that charm and is one of their many many many many meteor apocalypse films and when you've seen one you've officially seen them all.Containing that common scyfy original side plot about a step parent and resentful step child I do question why we see this so often.Credit however where credit is due, many of the cast are quite competent including the highly underused Gigi "Farscape" Edgley and Rhett Giles who puts in a career best performance as an autistic.Make no mistake they don't make up for this embarrassing clichéd mess but they do bring levity to what could have been one of the scyfy channels worst if they weren't present.The Good: Gigi Edgley Usual Scyfy pseudo science The Bad: Usual Scyfy pseudo scienceSoundtrackOffensively recycled and unoriginal Dumb endingThings I learnt from this movie:Gigi Edgley needs to pick her roles better

Sometime I wonder what investors and Studio Exec's feel after watching "such products" which I couldn't even truly name movies, just as a sign of basic, humble respect I still hold, within my mind and heart, to a real motion picture! I wonder how badly administrated and chaotic SyFy can be at this point to even accept to show such garbage when there would be instead so many other products with no real distribution, or just so many more talented filmmaker's, writers, actors, and producers to just employ and put to serious work, all folks who would probably work hard both their brains, and their guts, to deliver, even on a shoe string budget, something at least watchable, or stylish, or just made with some sense, and, enthusiasm, the even modest yet admirable result of some innovative or even derivative ideas, that one way or another, would make for some kind of a show, featuring ( and why not?) true acting, a script that you could call at least an effort to make you laugh, or chill, or wonder during one of those cozy, boring, and long rainy afternoon's, maybe even held together by some sort of professional direction! Too much to ask? Apparently, yes! Way too much to ask these days!! Why is this happening? I don't know.. I can sadly tell you that it is all so offensive, detrimental, and even juvenile, it might just be obviously destroying any reputation left to that once golden Hollywood's industry, made mainly of creative, and prepared artisans, crafting always decent, to even very good B movies/ Genre films, that would entertain with wit, with tongue in cheek's subjects, and characters, at times even producing a few unforgettable cult classic's! This seems to me almost like some sort of weird manipulation against true great Genre Cinema, that, believe, it or not, folks, again, it could be so much fun, and so much clever, than such muddled, awfully executed, sinister, and shamefully written, produced, and performed ..Rubbish, such as this one! Please avoid!

Acting was OK, the plot was survivable if week. The mix between set,CGI and model was a bit dodgy, but worst was the sound production - I kept missing little bits of dialog. I am also not sure if it was the direction or the production (I am not a film buff), but I did find I had to keep piecing together what was going on, when I felt this should have been given to me by either (both) production & direction. Biggest let down - name of the movie - Quantum erm... - hu - nothing to do with it. And the box cover showing a large bridge getting smashed - nothing so dramatic happened. Still with a budget of $2.5M, not such a bad job, if you are not a B-movie fan, don't watch this movie, but for me it hit the sweat-spot.

Contains spoiler? Well isn't that ironic?Contrary to a lot of the reviews this did film did make me laugh, I watched it high, hung over and with a very sarcastic friend who had actually purchased the film for such an occasion.So yeah would recommend if your in the same situation.Nobody can act in this film which is confusing as there are a couple of pretty hot woman in it so sometimes you think it might be about to break into a porn film.Apparently the main guy with the family is the Mayor of the town? I only found this out however after reading the back of the DVD box, maybe it's mentioned at the start and I missed it?His brother is autistic, apparently. This involves a highly dubious Dustin Hoffman impression, an affliction which as the film winds up and more is expected of him, miraculously seems to clear up in patches.Another highlight is the mayors wife. Probably the hottest woman in the film, I'm impressed to see she has worked on Battlestar Galactica and the Terminator Chronicles, as during the film I kept humming the Terminator music every time she came on screen. Her emotionless deadpan autopilot delivery is highly amusing particularly in marital exchanges with her husband.The badguy x-boyfriend is the standout however, fantastic performance, worthy of Gene Wilder in Stir Crazy.As stated script and story are diabolical. The 'rock star' scientists, who you would think would be the stars of the film but are relegated by so many sub-plots) were for me the most annoying performers in the film. Effects? Well there is a 2sec scene were New York is hit by the traditional tidal wave, I believe this is where most the budget was spent, and it looks sh*t.'The President' actor has to have the least amount of gravitas I ever witnessed for the role, I couldn't even see him as the manager of a McDonalds.I could go on, but I think its all been said. Watch it 'blitzed', sober you'll never make it, even worse you will be angered like someone has just dropped a turd in your fresh mojito.