Deadly Skies (2006)

Dr. Madison Taylor (Rae Dawn Chong) at Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Society has discovered a hidden asteroid on course to destroy the world in a day's time. General Dutton (Michael Moriarty) at the US government's Project Safe Skies dismisses her. Her only hope is former air force Major Richard Donovan (Antonio Sabato Jr.) and an asteroid-destroying laser which might be no more than a government boondoggle.This is Deep Impact without the explosive CGI or the reasonable characters. I like the idea of a government boondoggle and secret weapon. Everything else is less compelling and less well-written. The miniature budget does limit the production. I got bored with Chong and Sabato in a long back and forth. This is cheap TV with one interesting idea among a sea of weak writing and production.

I just frigging CRINGE at these movies. They truly make me embarrassed to be Canadian -- always trying to make ourselves look like 'America' which going by these films means running around in khaki military outfits blasting the *&^% out of everyone and everything with guns and lasers and black macho guys that say things to Aliens like "Yo mutha %^%$#er, take this you $%$#$#, before they blow their heads off. I guess that's what America is -- a nation of gun-toting macho ghetto guys. I know it isn't but according to Canadian producers, that's what 'they' think 'we' think America is. Anyways, terrible movie, just plain terrible but what do you expect when you read, filming location: British Columbia. Yeah, Vancouver, British Columbia, the province of dreary lighting, endless rainy days and bad, bad made-for-TV tax write-off films.

This film has been released in three different countries under three different titles,and each version is slight different. In the United Kingdom,the film was released on DVD with this title,Ultimate Limit. In Canada this film was released on DVD with this title,Force of impact. In the US this film was released under the title,Deadly skies. The US version has the main hero portray as a gay man. The UK and Canadian version have these scenes edited,yet the UK version is slightly different than the Canadian version. This film,made for cable TV was not that bad. I have seen both the UK and Canadian versions. I have not seen the US version.

I have not seen this movie but I thought it important to make a response to the previous comment. He thought that the movie was made as a straight thriller and then was rejected so some additional gay scenes were added. In actuality, the article I read stated that it was made as a gay movie, however, if they found enough popularity to go mainstream, then they would cut out the gay scenes. So he was actually almost correct in his assumption. I did purchase the movie from the Here Channel, but have yet to watch it. I don't think I will be disappointed because, well.... it was never in the theatre, so I can't possibly think that it would be spectacular event....