After astronomer Tim Harrison's predictions about an asteroid colliding with Earth fails, he is dismissed from his job. However, eight years later, his assistant approaches him with a simila... Read allAfter astronomer Tim Harrison's predictions about an asteroid colliding with Earth fails, he is dismissed from his job. However, eight years later, his assistant approaches him with a similar problem.After astronomer Tim Harrison's predictions about an asteroid colliding with Earth fails, he is dismissed from his job. However, eight years later, his assistant approaches him with a similar problem.
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- TriviaAt 20:45, Father and son see a full moon on the sky and the father had earlier said that he has a date with his son on every Wednesday. This movie was released on April 30, 2015, before that a full moon on a Wednesday was on Feb. 4, 2015 and on Oct. 8, 2014. There was no other full moon on a Wednesday in 2014. So, one of these two dates are most likely to be the day when that shot was taken, unless they patched in some earlier footage of a full moon.
- GoofsTim Harrison collects his son from home for their weekly Wednesday date. The boy says: "That's Cygnus X-1. Right?" At the end of the conversation, the son and the camera looks up at a big full moon. Stars are unlikely to be visible in a moonlit sky.
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Julia Waters: [on Tim assessing that her prediction of asteroid hitting the Earth might be right] Yeah, um thank you.
Tim Harrison: Don't thank me. I really hope you're wrong.
Julia Waters: So do I.
"Impact Earth" has a pretty straight forward storyline, one that is every bit laughable as it is unrealistic. And a movie such as "Impact Earth" is as generic and predictable as it comes when talking disaster movies, and it is impressive that writers E.M. McCoy, Jonathan Stathakis and Cory Tynan manage to create something that is just another copy-paste of essentially every other mainstream disaster movie ever made.
What astounds me in movies such as "Impact Earth" is how natural disaster phenomena always seem to home in and focus on the select few main protagonists of the movie; and such is the case in this 2015 movie as well. Amazing how so many asteroids can impact in so close vicinity of that family, and yet leave the rest of the surrounding environment unscathed.
And you know you have a mainstream generic disaster movie on your hand when, and surprise surprise, the entire world is saved by the laughable heroic stunts by a single family. And just to add insult to injury, the way that the family saves the world is just so wonderfully idiotic that even a 1st grader could have mustered up a similar concept idea.
Visually then "Impact Earth" wasn't actually all that bad. Sure, this wasn't top of the line CGI, but it was adequate. Personally, I prefer more realistic-looking special effects in movies such as these, but the majority of disaster movies seem to have subpar CGI and special effects.
The acting in the movie was adequate, though you shouldn't go setting yourself up for stellar acting performances in the movie. I was surprised to see Tom Berenger in a movie such as this though.
If you enjoy disaster movies, then "Impact Earth" is not really one that I would recommend you rush out to watch, as there are far better and more enjoyable disaster movies readily available. My rating of this 2015 disaster movie ultimately settles on a four out of ten rating, once the dust from the many localized asteroid impacts have settled.
- paul_haakonsen
- Jan 3, 2021
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- Budget
- $2,500,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1