Meteor (1979)
Genre: Scifi
Duration: 107 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Ronald Neame
Stars: Sean Connery, Natalie Wood and Karl Malden
IMDb score:
5,1 (9.618)
Releasedate: 19 October 1979
Meteor plot
"There's No Place On Earth To Hide!"
After a collision with a comet, an eight kilometer large asteroid flies straight towards Earth. Because impact could mean the end of humanity, NASA wants to deploy the illegal weapons satellite Hercules, but lack of firepower makes that impossible. Since the Russian government owns the same satellite, cooperation with them is the only possible solution.
Actors and actresses
Paul Bradley
Tatiana Donskaya
Harry Sherwood
Dr. Dubov
General Adlon
Sir Michael Hughes
Secretary of Defense
The President
General Easton
Rolf Manheim
Reviews & comments
Theunissen
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- 12337 messages
- 5538 votes
Another disaster movie from the 1970s and this time it's about a meteorite that threatens the earth. As a small child I found this film fascinating and exciting at the time and if you watch it now for the first time, you will probably find it laughably bad.
Personally, I think it's not too bad (still after I just revised it) and I liked the story about the cooperation between the Americans and Russians (a very sensitive subject at the time) with their illegal nuclear weapons satellites "Hercules" and "Peter the Great" (equipped with red warheads) to fight the meteor. Of course, these weapons satellites were initially aimed at both America and the USSR, but now they are rotated 180 degrees and deployed to destroy the meteor. The story itself is still fascinating, but it is no longer exciting. The effects now look ridiculously bad and cheap, but back then it was the most normal thing. The execution of the story is also quite nice (quite cliché here and there) and earlier smaller meteor impacts on the earth that hit Switzerland, Hong Kong and New York heavily, were depicted quite nicely. The ending with more or less another disaster (trapped in New York by the earlier impact) in the story was quite nice and of course the meteor unites.
The cast does a creditable job (no more than that) and in particular Sean Connery (although he actually didn't do much and was mainly grumpy in the beginning) and Karl Malden. In itself it was also funny that the beautiful Sybil Danning (who can regularly be admired naked in films) also has a small role as a skier in Switzerland. All in all just a nice old-fashioned disaster movie to have seen once and certainly because of the nostalgia.
PS before the credits it is said that in 1968 a plan called "Icarus" was designed to protect the earth from possible meteors.
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scorsese
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- 13590 messages
- 11373 votes
Mediocre film in which the Americans and Russians join forces to destroy an approaching meteorite. An uninteresting disaster film with a meager story and ditto characters. The special effects are also poor and the credibility also lacks a few things. Especially from a nostalgic point of view somewhat entertaining (and partly because of the cast with quite a few sounding names).
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blurp194
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- 5946 messages
- 4452 votes
Ah yes, the 1970s with the special genre of disaster films that you had then. Fortunately that has been forgotten, perhaps due to the debacle of this monstrosity.
Because that's what it is, there shouldn't be any discussion about that. Anyone who comes up with such cringe-worthy images ten years after the moon landings, and two years after Star Wars, is still far too friendly for a professional ban. And that that was deserved, the film proves in every way - narrative, cinematography, sound - that someone did get it into his head to put an Oscar nomination on it!
Nice to see the cast, but not for the good play - they hardly show that either. Better another movie, even for an inveterate Connery of Wood fan I'd say skip this one anyway. Some lists may not be complete.
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