MegaFault (2009)

I watched the "Special Director's cut" a film cut by the special director. It is nice to know that the world is going to end because of a guy named "Boomer" (Eriq La Salle) who likes to blow things up. A megafault is created and only world renown seismologist Brittany Murphy can save the world...or reunite with her family instead.The movie uses CG graphics for the special effects.This film is no different than other Asylum/ SyFy disaster films which all have the same basic plot. This one was not as much fun as some of the other ones, except for the fact Brittany Murphy is the most unconvincing scientist I have ever seen.It is also nice to know that when an earthquake happens, you do the same thing as when Russian missiles attack... get under the table. Whatever happened to standing in the doorway?Tough to sit through

I was perusing the remote guide when I saw that the film starred Brittany Murphy. I had not seen any of her films for a long time and was curious to see why she would have agreed to this bomb.She looked alarmingly strange. Her face had altered significantly. Especially her eyes. I was so taken aback by her appearance, I checked info to find out the year the movie was released then looked up her bio to find out the year she had died. The same year! Sadly, something was clearly amiss with this talented young woman. All the life had drained from her appearance. Her acting was wooden and forced. Nothing seemed natural about her. Something was very wrong with her. Poor thing.The movie was just awful. The dialog insipid, the acting from all members of the cast, embarrassing. But I watched anyway with morbid curiosity to see if Brittany's demeanor would change from beginning/middle/end.

Truck Driver . . . ."I've got a quake on my tail!" This is a just one of many memorable lines from this testimony to the scientific dumbing down of America, and particularly American Cinema. Years ago, I thought that "Volcano" was as bad as it could get, wasting the acting chops of Tommy Lee Jones and providing insult after insult to those with a general appreciation of the way the earth works. But no, SyFy has provided us with a series of cataclysms (and I refer to their movies, not the storyline) that reach depths never before attempted. No effort was expended to bring realism to this picture. Therefore it produces no emotions in the viewer, besides shame that the time was wasted. Previous reviewers have a fine job taking this film apart, and I could take each scene and provide scientific criticism, but why? When there was no time spent by Paul Bales and Asylum, why should I?The film is rated PG-13 for disturbing images, how accurate. To those actors whose names appear in the cast, I honor your efforts and your need to make a living. I hope that for the rest of your lives you can avoid associations with pictures like Megafault.Never thought I'd look forward so much to the next showing of Dante's Peak.

I have no other words for this film. Nothing special about the effects either. They must have had a budget of at least $100 dollars and it really shows. With a cast of Z list actors that I have never heard of and hope to never see again there is nothing I find that is good about this movie, oh maybe there is, the end when I got to turn the TV off. I have never commented on a movie on here before but after watching this abomination I felt compelled to sign up warn others. I find it such a shame that this was one of the last movies that Brittany Murphy was in as I am sure she will be remembered for this and not her other fantastic movies.