Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Sue Smith Honestly, this wasn't a bad movie. The characters were likable and engaging.The relationships were plausible and compelling. The idea of the world's population struggling together seems very real. However, the premise is that the world is overheating (as the title alludes to) yet nearly all the characters in the movie were wearing such items as a long sleeved shirts, sweat shirts, long pants, a hooded sweat jacket, and even a winter coat. They wore this attire for nearly the entire movie..even though the world is baking. If you want the audience to believe the world is heating up at a rapid clip..don't you think the characters should dress for extreme heat? I couldn't take the movie seriously because of the wardrobes. It made me giggle through the whole thing. Just my two cents. :)

FlashCallahan Despite scientist Nathan's warnings, his boss continues an experiment meant as publicity for his satellite firm: exploding an asteroid. Instead it splits, and the major piece, the size of Iceland, changes course to earth. It is deflected but so close that it shift our course closer to the sun, causing rapid extreme heating, hopefully only mid-term. Nathan warns his sister, TV journalist Carly, and she her lover, police detective Tom. He brings his unruly daughter Kim, her ex-con lover C.J. and her mother, nurse Bonnie, when Nathan offers a flight to a friend's Arctic weather station. Tom takes charge of a dangerous trip to the airport, as everywhere on earth things catch fire and people fight for water, transport and sheer looting.....fantastically bad from the beginning, Van Dien shows his shirt no mercy as he spends the duration of the film sweating and looking a little concerned in some scenes. it's highly unbelievable that this guy could have a family, let alone trying to bring it together, but he does.as the heat rises, we see the group walk very slowly, meeting people and getting into scrapes. This carries on for the whole film.Van Diens daughter has to be as unlucky as Kim Bauer, because she has a gun to her head a couple of times, nearly gets blown up, and faints at the badness of it all.if this had an amazing budget, big stars (no offence to the cast here) and Bay at the helm, this could have been a fun popcorn blockbuster.Instead we get one dimensional villains, extras who appear to be asleep on the floor, and a literal mad scientist.But it's awful in a laughable sort of way.

messinan-1 I would rather have someone cut out my eyeballs with a razor blade than have to watch this movie again. I watched it from start to end thinking it couldn't get any worse....BUT IT DID. The writers and producers should be slapped for putting this kind of crap on television. The actors are ALL terrible. Get out of Hollywood you fools and go work at McDonalds sweeping the floors and emptying the trash. Anyone that thinks this movie is even remotely decent should be hung. They are an embarrassment to humanity. To think we have soldiers putting their lives on the line for anyone that produces this kind of inane garbage. Makes me embarrassed to say I'm an American.

ndwinl I liked this film and not just because I'm a guy and think Amanda Crew and the blonde reporter are really hot. It is slightly cheesy as many TV movies are but the science is, for the most part, sound *because* in the end it rains and this indicates some assumptions the lead scientists made in the film were wrong ( see the FAQ I started ).Notice all the Washington state license plates and one California license plate throughout the movie ( the film was shot in B.C. )? This shows the director, actors, screenwriter(s) and producers understand a global catastrophe is truly global.I must dispute what Ladyliberty wrote: ''..While the story here is okay and actually has some real potential, the script is just awful. The science part of the science fiction is non-existent starting with the asteroid pushing the earth out of orbit and escalating with the notion that the "gravitational balance of the solar system''No, it is not non-existent. I think that layer getting burned off at the beginning of the film by the space rock is the rest of our Earth's ozone layer and that Earth's orbit around the sun and/or rotational axis was only slightly offset. Meltdown's problem is it narrows the focus of global review of an incoming asteroid/meteorite to a single group of scientists. The film is politically and economically unrealistic -- that's OK sci-fi doesn't have to be ( this time ).''..the fact is that such scenarios are a very real danger to the planet. Unfortunately, we've tracked nowhere near all of the near earth asteroids that could be worrisome in some orbit some day''Ha, you probably do not know there is a recurring military side independent of NASA's infrastructure and has sort of been that way since the late 1970's or early 1980's. In addition to many professional amateur astronomers pointing their reflector and refracting telescopes at the night sky on a daily or weekly basis there are large scale CCD cameras mounted to orbiting satellites pointed away from the Earth that pretty much do nothing but look for approaching chunks of rock.I give Meltdown six out of ten stars during a year that saw very little sci-fi. It seems western Canada is the new sci-fi Hollywood.