Earth's Final Hours

Right, another fabulous disaster movie, where the Earth is at the brink of extinction, and yet is miraculously saved by a group of very unlikely American heroes... Yes, that is what I thought as well when I sat down to watch "Earth's Final Hours". And I was right, as this movie turned out to be every bit just that. "Earth's Final Hours" follows the shamelessly abused blueprint of how-to-make-a-generic-disaster-movie, true! However, it does manage to lift itself up and out of the mediocrity that tends to permeate the disaster movie genre. There just was something a bit more enjoyable and watchable to "Earth's Final Hours". The story, well, it can be summarized fairly easy. Actually, just read my opening statement, and you have the entire movie summarized right there. It was the fast pace of the movie and the progression of the storyline that actually made "Earth's Final Hours" stand out where many other disaster movies failed and sunk deep into mediocrity. But also the acting performances, as they weren't as generic and mediocre as they tend to be in this genre. As for the special effects, well let's just say that they had CGI special effects and that these effects served their purpose well enough. However, it is not effects that will blow you away or leave you impressed in any way. So don't get your hopes up. I was actually quite surprised with the performance that Robert Knepper put on in "Earth's Final Hours", because he really carried the movie quite nicely. And it was also nice to see Bruce Davison here as well, although his character was a very generic one to say the least - not saying that his performance was generic, just the character. "Earth's Final Hours" is not the best of disaster movies, it is nowhere near the likes of "2012" or "San Andreas" in terms of CGI and entertainment where you just sit back and enjoy the effects. However, it did distinguish itself from many other generic disaster movies. If you enjoy the disaster movie genre, and if you have nothing better to do or to watch, then take the time to watch "Earth's Final Hours". I was actually quite entertained by it.

Greetings, Overall this movie is worth watching. I love disaster movies and this movie; yes does have far fetched ideas, but the end of the world is pretty far fetched. Yet there are a lot of us that think about what would happen if there were a possible complete collapse. I'm not going to add much about this movie in detail but the concept and execution of this movie made this worth my time. I'm not saying you're going to blown away, or that this movie will become some kind of cult classic. I'm just saying that if you like disaster movies, this is worth watching because this is believable. Not as hokey as even Zombie movies. I hope you enjoy this movie, I did.

Well. Earth's Final Hours. Low budget film, and it shows. The kind of film you expect to see aired on the Syfy channel. I did enjoy it, meaning it took up some spare time I had. It was somewhat predictable at times, but even that is to be expected what with the amount of similar films out there, only they had the budget to pull off a better film. I would say it was still worth a watch, IF you have nothing better to do...like sleep. It's main downside was the acting of a certain young man, Cameron Bright. His monotone acting skills just bugged the hell out of me. I remembered seeing him in a double episode of Stargate SG-1. I recognised the acting before him. It has not changed in the past 5 years. Lets hope he gets better in the future...or play the roles of robots. To get to it, the film was OK, but let down by its somewhat predictability and certain bad acting.

I had the 'opportunity' to watch this movie a couple of weeks ago and I could not believe how bad it was. It was so bad that I actually took the plunge to register just to speak my piece about how bad it was. This movie makes 'Plan 9 From Outer Space' look Oscar worthy. The science in this movie is absolutely horrid and there is no logic to it at all. They spent five bucks making this movie and all of it went into the special effects budget. Nothing went into the writing of the script. Most SyFy originals movies are usually two hours of okay diversionary fare. Not this one as I could feel my brain rotting from the inside as I watched it. The topper was when the bad CIA guy was whacking away at the satellite dish at the end of the movie. Why he just didn't yank out the wires or push the bloody thing over is beyond me. I checked this movie out on the IMDb site to see what others said about it and to check its ranking. I could not believe that it had a 7.9 ranking. Maybe all that were involved with the making of the movie logged on and ranked it as that is the only way it could have gotten the ranking it has. If I could have given this movie a negative number I would have but I hope that my review will prevent more brain rottings like the one I had to endure.

I love science fiction and I am normally perfectly willing to suspend normal logic and common sense to enjoy a good Sci-Fi movie or book. Earth's Final Hours started off well enough. Sets were pretty well done, editing was nice and tight and the action moved along at a pretty good pace. Acting was sufficient with minor digs for an underwhelming performance by Cameron Bright (the son) and some serious over acting near the end by Roark Critchlow. Unfortunately things went really silly for the last twenty minutes or so of the movie. We find ourselves in a situation were there are literally seconds left until the end of the planet. Yet, when Julia Benson is wounded, everyone drops their "second by second precision satellite guidance efforts" to rush to her aid and to see how she is doing. Then they stand around and visit about it. Hey, if life on earth is about to end, don't you think you might want to stay by your equipment to stop it? And then in an outdoor scene near the end, the character Lockman (Michael Kopsa) tries to destroy a satellite antenna which happens to be sitting on the ground within easy reach. Now here we witness a guy bright enough to be a Division Chief for the CIA and he tries to disable the antenna by bending down to whack meekly at the lower outside rim of the dish. Like he has to duck around the transducer sticking out of the middle of the antenna to find a place he can hit without doing any damage. That scene was so painfully, obviously stupid (as was much of the last 20 minutes of the film) that I actually found myself moaning out loud. It totally spoiled what was otherwise an enjoyable viewing. I don't think this movie ever had the potential to be great, but it didn't deserve to be so badly done at the end that it is literally painful to watch.

I normally try not to be harsh with ratings and review summaries, but Earth's Final Hours really took the biscuit. I have seen worse movies, and SyFy have done much worse than this, but that is not excusing this really pathetic excuse for a movie from being one of the worst movies I've seen in the past month. There is only one redeeming factor, and that is Bruce Davison, who actually tries his best in a role and with dialogue that had so much potential to be so much more than turned out. Earth's Final Hours looks cheap, I found the film very dull in its look and the special effects while not as bad as the Mega Piranha, Titanic II and Quantum Apocalypse still look as though they were made in a rush and gives the indication that the makers were looking at quantity rather than quality. The concept was ridiculous in the first place, but I wasn't expecting the final product to have such a sluggish, scientifically illogical, utterly predictable and above all uninteresting story. There's also some of the most stilted dialogue I have heard ever in my life, an ending that is drawn out, anti-climatic and goes nowhere and almost every character cliché in the book(seriously when it comes to characters there is nothing new whatsoever here). The acting is terrible, Davison is the only one who tries, Julie Benson is wooden and Cameron Bright has to be one of the blandest and most monotonic actors there is. Overall, a stinker of a movie with almost nothing good about it excepting Davison. 1/10 Bethany Cox

After dense matter from an imploded white hole hits Earth, the planet's rotation is devastated. A group of government agents must locate a lost satellite network that is the world's only hope for survival. Saying a SyFy film is bad is like saying the sky is blue. Their ability to find actors, directors and crew to throw films together amazes me. For every decent film they make, they make a dozen duds. This ranks even below the duds... Now, Robert Knepper is pretty great. I know him best from "Prison Break", and the contrast between his character there (T-Bag) and here shows he is capable of some range... I feel bad he signed on for this. Sure, he is a working actor and needs to accept some lesser jobs now and then... but wow.

I like SciFi movies, especially those which don't butcher the science (much). Let me start with the idea: it kind of follows the current Hollywood doomsday trend. We got a hypothetical White Hole (the opposite of a Black Hole) which shoots chunks of ultra-high density matter into space - really good SciFi idea. The science: You would think that an object the size of a tennis ball and the mass of a few hundred planets would have a profound gravitational effect while passing through the Solar System and through Earth for that matter. They never mention that. I mean, when you hear the words "the mass of a few hundred planets" the first thing you mind takes you is gravity. They were able to use cell phones and computers with very few problems although there were magnetic storms above them. The communications and power supply lines were almost unaffected. The movie: First of all, they did a a pretty good job with the special effects for a low budget movie. The acting part could have been a lot better and the movie was full of cliques. The part that was the most frustrating is when they realized they just witnessed a possible global extinction event, and they chose not to inform the population as that would create panic. I mean wouldn't the fact that they got magnetic storms all over the planet and the fact that the Sun is still up in the sky at midnight, create panic by itself??!? They thought people would just ignore that?

There are so many things wrong with this movie, where to start. People with a soccer ball size hole in their chest tend to not be able to talk. Synopsis : Neutron star particle large enough and dense enough to go thru the entire earth damage our magnetosphere and stop the planet from rotating bringing on global extinction. Given the current state of astrophysics the existence of such a particle is theoretically possible but that it would cause the type of damage to our planet is not even remotely possible. Given the mass of the earth and it's sheer inertia it would take a lot more than a single particle no matter how dense to counteract that force. Then there are those rays of solar radiation that seem to make it thru the magnetosphere and slice across the earth, hitting anything with a badge when they are about to arrest the well meaning hacker teenager who only wants to expose the big evil government plot to not tell people of the impending doom. Luckily those rays don't go after the hackers dad who happens to be one of the a fore mentioned badge wearer of the Federal variety, and work together with the well meaning scientific geek'ete agent of the same variety to find a fix. All they have to do is restore the magnetosphere and push start the earths spin with two satellites... peace of cake. Enter scientist who saw the error of his ways after creating a dooms day device that will now be just the ticket to fix this sticky situation. Good thing that the scientist even while being under arrest was able to hack into the system and have his 'device' moved from a guarded warehouse to some other location. So the evil Federal agents are trying to get the device back and how do they do that.. well they shoot at the only people who know where it is.. and shockingly the scientist is shot and killed. Luckily he is able to tell his group of do-gooders the GPS coordinates of the 'Device' and some other cryptic mumbling... So the big ending battle, bad feds vs good ( scientist-geek'ete/hacker-teen/agent-Dad ) for control of the device ( satellites ). Good guys want to save the world, bad guys want to save a small section so that they can create a small green zone of safety and screw the planet nearly 7 billion people. Good thing that a non technical federal field agent could find the two wires that would make the satellite up-link work. Phew! Close one. Save the planet, save a handful of people... decisions decisions.. Funny how all the people going after the good guys would be dead if they succeed. I guess that little point went unnoticed. Silly mindless Federal agents. But once again the suns radiation comes to the rescue and smote those evil doers. Good ol' solar radiation. But it misses the main evil agent, dang it. So he manages to shoot the nice geek'ete and begins to smash the up-link. Silly evil agent didn't count on agent-dad kicking his butt, not to mention that the solar radiation always gets it's man. Poof, no more evil agent. The planet is saved and all is good. Miller time.

This movie is a total waste of time. Trailer looked good but don't be fooled.. Too many far fetched inconsistencies and coincidences.. Throw darts the floor if you want to have more fun. It starts with one of the only people who knows how to save the world getting a hole blown through his chest where his heart and lungs used to be, and somehow manages to talk. Don't bother watching it.. How it was ever rated a 7.9 is beyond me, must have been based on 2 votes.