I just got through watching this on the telly, since I often try to catch all the Asylum -projects I can out of sheer curiosity.The plot of this epic revolves around the Deep Impact / Armageddon -style asteroid that is hurling towards us and can't be blown up or thrown out of it's course. The best option they come up with is to bury nuclear weapons to the bottom of the planet and explode whole Earth out of it's course thus easily avoiding the deadly impact.I'll admit I'm no geologist or scientist of any creed, but even to the complete layman this sounds like a legit plan that can in no way backfire or cause any harm to our entire ecosystem. And the whole thing is orchestrated by a temp in NASA, who happens to be smarter than all the science minds of the nation combined.Tia Carrere plays a geologist that gets involved with the mission, and Robert Davi is a general of the army.I have always appreciated Carrere, because even at the height of her popularity, she often appeared in all things cheap and stupid. She is rather okay in this, although not as lovely as Renee O'Connor one could see in the Moby Dick interpretation of the same firm - which is probably shot in the same submarine set as most of this film.Davi's only point is to look concerned and drink a lot of coffee.This movie had a lot of good brain fart mentality. The biggest problem with Asylum these days is that their movies have become too coherent and can only be distinguished from the normal Hollywood crap by their cheapness. Asteroid vs Earth was like if Ronald Emmerich had £3 cash and was even more crazy as the reality shows - and that's a good thing.We had a nice scene, where the sub has a leak at it's backside, so they device an explosion to separate only the front part of the vehicle and continue with just that. Or how about the ending, where we go into The Lord of the Rings -territory, as one soldier has to try and smuggle few nukes up a roaring volcano whilst avoiding enemies surrounding the mountain.And in the end, world literally jumps from it's orbit in a scene that looks like it has been directly lifted from the intro sequence of 3rd Rock from the Sun. In horrible, horrible CGI, of course - as is everything in this piece.This gets an okay score in terms of Asylum films from me. I wasn't disappointed, because this time the dumb cheese translated as entertainment, not a boring snooze fest.

Only watched this movie because I saw that Tuvok from Star Trek was in it, and for his role in the movie I guess he did a passable job. The movie however was so terrible...The plot is completely and utterly garbage, only a person with no schooling of any type would buy the story. It's one of those moments in a movie where they need to get you to go along with what they are saying. There are usually two ways, Science, and magic. Lets face it they would have been better off going the magic route on this one.Second, Roles of officials, Soldiers, and general professionals. The world leaders acted like badly mannered teenagers, and seemed completely incompetent. The Main scientist was a Child, The person in charge of the nukes on shore had to be the worst over-actor I have seen in ages. He made those crates seem so heavy that Hulk couldn't have lifted them but some how he did after he had himself a cry.The General in charge of the US affairs doesn't have any scientific advisers or professionals instead he trusts a child for advice.The Soldiers just pointed guns at everyone. Going to pick up a scientist to help with the plan, Sure lets all point m16's at her and yell loudly. Hey we are going to offload nuclear devices at a naval base and apparently there is no where to store them on base so lets lug em around in SUV's.The engineers on the ship were incompetent. When told to wrap things up outside the ship and continue working from the inside the Head engineer tells someone inside! the ship to stop work.... The ship itself seems to be held together with duct tape.Let us delve a little deeper though, no Romance in the film just a really fake gay relationship that was done terribly. The relationship between the XO and the female scientist was Just terrible, they kiss at the end after having had no real romantic moments the entire movie...Apparently our intern dies from foam ceiling tiles a collapsible pipe and some drywall.

I am a big fan of Tia Carrera--especially since I met her at ComicCon, she gave me her smile! But what were you doing in this movie? For that matter, what were Tim Russ and Robert Davi doing in this movie? Did they really need the money? Even though the budget allowed them to have some OK special effects and some CGI scenes, the list of problems could go on and on and on. There would be some interesting CGI effect and then they would be in a submarine command center that was obviously just a bunch of computers in a room and the fact that Davi was clearly not in any kind of "command center", Please do not waste your time on this movie unless you want a good laugh.

OK, Asylum is known for pretty bad flicks. Sharknado is one of the better of the lot IMHO. This movie is pretty far fetched, the acting sucks, and a lot of canned footage used. BUT I enjoyed the interior sub footage - we're talking "super low budget"! Ever see PC monitors and 'puters, dryer vent hosing, loose wiring draped down from the ceiling or a teletype machine on a sub? And a gay XO? Give me a break... And blasting the ship in two? What a hoot! Also, I liked the mylar aluminum radiation suit (unzipped!) and the lieutenant telling gunny "I was talking to Terry." Gunny says "we know"... sadly the intern dies, making things dire. Then the Saipan volcano saves the day.