Meteor (1979) (original) (raw)
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Original title
Meteor
Year
1979
Running time
103 min.
Country
United States
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Genre
Drama. Action. Sci-Fi | Disaster Film
Synopsis
Sean Connery leads a team of asteroid-battling astronomers in Meteor, one of the last and most unusual examples of the disaster movie craze of the 1970s. In this one, a killer asteroid named Orpheus threatens to collide with the Earth, and Connery must come up with a plan to stop it. Cold war politics date the picture a bit, but they also add some weight to the impending doom facing humanity. Like any good disaster flick, it's populated by an all-star cast, including Karl Malden, Martin Landau, Natalie Wood, Richard Dysart, Henry Fonda, and Trevor Howard. Brian Keith plays Connery's opposite number in the U.S.S.R. While the pacing and special effects are weak compared to similar celestial menaces depicted in Armageddon and Deep Impact, Meteor displays all the benefits of its more powerful cast… not to mention Hank Fonda as President.
Awards
1979: Nominated for Oscar: Best Sound
Critics' reviews
- "Let's face it, the bottom line on a disaster film is how special are its special effects. With Meteor, the answer is not very."
- "Director Ronald Neame, who once made good movies, has instructed his actors to shout as much as possible. The rest is special effects -- and not very special ones at that."
- "An $18 million, star-studded disaster film, which in itself is a major disaster."
- "Shoddy, unspeakably inept sci-fi disaster movie, with America and Russia combining forces when a meteor on collision course threatens to destroy the earth."
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