Earthstorm
Earthstorm
| 12 June 2006 (USA)
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A massive asteroid impact on the moon begins causing storms on earth due to the sudden changes in ocean tides. But when further examination is conducted it's discovered that the moon's structure is now entirely unstable -- threatening all life on earth. With time running out, a team of scientists turn to one man, demolitions expert John Redding, in effort to find a solution and secure the moon.

Reviews
SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen
Supelice Dreadfully Boring
FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Catherina If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
Michael Ledo A meteor strikes the moon and creates regolith. Debris heads toward the earth and causes destruction. Discredited scientist Lana Gale (Amy Price-Francis) is the expert on the topic and her expertise is called back into service. Meanwhile in a subplot John (Stephen Baldwin) is a hotshot demolitions expert, someone Lana Gale would find attractive.To no surprise we discover the moon is breaking up and we need Stephen Baldwin to save us because Bruce Willis died in that other film. Of course, in like "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" there are those who claim we don't need to nuke, that things will heal themselves.This is a watered down made for TV movie with formula results. This is the kids version of the Willis film.
TheLittleSongbird Having a lot of time on my hands since a busy day yesterday, I sat down with nothing else better to do to watch Earthstorm expecting little. As with a movie like Vipers, which I also saw recently, Earthstorm fits in the hilariously awful category. So what was wrong exactly? Well, pretty much everything. The film is poorly made, with very artificial-looking special effects and choppy editing. The script is full of technical jargon, which makes the film horrendously and very amusingly stilted and unintentionally cheesy. The story is dull, predictable and full of plot holes especially with the smoking moon. The characters are clichéd, and none of them ring true or are likable. And the acting is terrible, with Stephen Baldwin giving a bored-looking and sounding performance. So overall, awful but in a hilarious way. 1/10 Bethany Cox
billrw-29-219733 Thanks to the complete disregard by the makers of this movie of anything resembling science, I found it quite enjoyable. Yes, there is something called a "space shuttle", and the moon does exist, but that's about where the scientific facts end. Lots of fun trying to spot all of the plot elements that completely disregarded various law of physics; though I lost count after a while. I especially enjoyed how they would just string together some random technical-sounding words to explain each new problem encountered. Loved how to shuttle was able to magically levitate within the moon crevasse. The "goofs" page documents a few more items, but I imagine they also gave up after a while. Great fun!
Sean Kaye I think there just MUST be group of investors purposely making terrible movies like this in Canada to be used as tax write-offs. It would make perfect sense. If you do a search for "Uwe Boll", he's this German guy who's made quite a bit of money for investors by doing just that. I bet there's a similar law in Canada, I'm going to look into this, hell, maybe I can get in on this racket -- Get paid for making garbage? Hey man, I gots no pride! Here's an excerpt about Boll: >>Until the law was changed in 2005, Boll was able to acquire funding thanks to German tax laws that reward investments in film. The law allowed investors in German-owned films to write off 100% of their investment as a tax deduction; it also allowed them to invest borrowed money and write off any fees associated with the loan. The investor was then only required to pay taxes on the profits made by the movie; if the movie loses money, the investor got a tax writeoff.<<<