Earthfall (2015)

I rarely leave reviews just a star rating but this wa so funny I was in pain and would recommend this as a classic comedy for a wet afternoon so leave your brain out for a rest and simply watch jaw dropping unbelievably dumb ass amusement

Well I had expected something much, much worse than what "Earthfall" actually turned out to be.Sure, this was a very generic and predictable disaster movie, but then again so are 90% of the movies in this particular genre. Yet we still watch them for some odd reason. For me it is on the offbeat chance that the movie actually is outstandingly entertaining; which most of them aren't, sadly enough.The story here is about the Earth being pulled out of its orbit and sent hurling into space. Right, very simple, very generic, isn't it? There were heaps of flaws in the movie, of course. And while I am not a man of science or anything, but if the Earth is sent out of its orbit wouldn't that heavily influence the atmosphere gravity and the polar points?I loved how the freezing storm claimed a man's life in less than mere seconds by freezing him solid, yet the female protagonist escaped that fate by merely pulling a blanket up to her chest! Yeah, that was plausible.The special effects and CGI in the movie were actually adequate for a movie of this caliber, so thumbs up there.

EARTHFALL is yet another generic science fiction disaster flick made by the SyFy Channel, exactly the same as all the rest they've done over the years. A massive asteroid passes too close to Earth and upsets our gravitational field, causing the planet to spin out of control; a whole wave of natural disasters follow. The usual bunch of TV actors, down on their luck to a man, attempt to figure out a way to stop things. This is good if you like watching terrible CGI effects of cities being destroyed and devastated, but for anyone with real taste in cinema it will be a chore to sit through.

REALLY GOOD START, BUT WHERE'S THE ENDING??? Good plot to start, good actors, good acting. Problem is, at the end of the movie I felt as though I'd seen the first quarter of the show and had been cheated out of seeing the last 3 quarters of it. WHY would they take a viewer through all that turmoil just to end it flat at the moment the planet (and it's occupants) were going to start the REAL adventure - creating a new world out of the ruins of the old one. I just CAN NOT understand why they stopped only 1 quarter of the way in. There doesn't seem to be a follow-up movie or a series coming off it. This movie could have continued with so many additional plots; the military setting up a base and people living there, while people who had survived without the military set up small communities all over the globe (working their way out from the area that people were still alive in). It wouldn't have to be every community fighting every other community, either. Why not every community working to help each other and reinstate commerce with each other. There could be a farming community trading goods with a mining community and a crafting community trading goods with both of those, and on and on. Runners as mail carriers. Traveling tutors for the kids, traveling medical units from the medical community, kids sent to craftsmen, hospitals, farms, libraries, etc., to live in their teen years in order to learn a trade (since the colleges would probably no longer be viable, right?) and on and on. Sooooo much more could have come from this movie than just another "shoot-em- up-bang-bang" debacle.