I watched this film because some bozo at Dish Network gave it 3 stars. I expect a 3-star movie to have decent credentials while this one had ***NONE***.I don't need to list all its faults seeing as other IMDb reviewers have already done so quite eloquently. In a nutshell, it is SciFi without the Sci. For example, preparing a Space Shuttle for launch would require several weeks at the very least even if one was already at the launch facility. Simply moving the Shuttle to the pad takes the better part of a day yet somehow ASI managed to launch one within a few hours. And, by the way, it's an orbiter meaning capable only of attaining earth orbit.... just one of the countless technical glitches in this turkey. Actually the entire movie is just one gigantic mistake and an utter waste of time to watch with one possible exception.... it might be just the ticket for a kindergarten during a sudden blizzard if there was nothing else for the kiddies to do and nowhere they could go. A few of them might actually enjoy it.

Here in Kuwait we take what we can get in English, especially if you don't know Arabic. This clodhopper came on one of the local movie channels and since the other choices this evening were even worse, I gave it a try.I have rarely seen a more incompetent, badly written piece of shlock. This one takes the cake. Obviously the budget was low and what there was was spent on the sole "name" star - Stephen Baldwin, as could be plainly seen from the ridiculous sets used for ground control as well as the shuttle interior, which looked like it had been recycled in slightly updated form from one of those wonderful 1950s "C" movies.The plot was just horrible, with so many ridiculous blunders and plot "twists" that the end product was ridiculously sophomoric. At one point I wondered aloud if this had been a high school drama class script, it got that bad.As the "goofs" section points out, throughout the movie when the shuttle is flying around the moon and in the chasm, you can hear jet engine sounds which I found not comical but just sad. The actors themselves toss out their lines so totally unconvincingly and devoid of any emotional range that I think some of the lesser-known ones like Amy Price-Francis and Dirk Benedict were just phoning in their performance to get their (probably minuscule) paycheck.Don't waste your time on this piece of dreck. If I were Stephen Baldwin, I'd been trying to get this one expunged from my filmography, it's that bad...The sad thing about "Earthstorm" is that it shows to what pathetic depths the once-proud SciFi Channel has sunk. What happened there? There is still a huge market for science fiction, but NBC Universal apparently chooses to disregard those of us who like this genre and instead fill their broadcast schedule with clunkers like this as well as "pro wrestling," which is definitely fiction, just not "science fiction."

I have just watched big part of this movie. It looks too much as Armageddon, but now they send a man without any training to the Moon ( Bruce Willis has had some training), and they reach Moon in less than 24h ( What? Speed of light?). After taking a ride to the Moon, they realize they should have took different type of bombs, but they have no time to go back, although it'd take 10 minutes.Effects are so poor that you can search YouTube for something like Freddiew or The Key Of Awesome for better experience. I don't say I can make better, but come on, watching this movie, you get a feeling of watching something you made, some video which sucks, and you can't believe how much does it suck.Watch this movie only and (capslock)only(/capslock) in case you wish to understand what are bad effects and what means plagiarism of another movie, and not a good plagiarism, a bad one, indeed. Bitch please.

First of all, it needed a new title. Not Earthstorm but maybe Goodbye Moon! Because that's exactly what this movie was like. Very not rushed. I mean if the moon was breaking apart irl and we'd found out about it, I think we would have been a little more alarmed than the characters in this film. Baldwin just acted like he got out of bed and well went to the moon! It's very slow moving though the CGI is impressive for a TV flick.I don't understand why all the actors treated the situation like it was some feathers that floated out from space. oooo it destroyed Mexico City....let's stare at each other and slowly walk to our computers....ooooo there's a huge one heading straight for us; lets just take out our calculators and slowly figure things out. There was no sense of urgency like nobody cared that this huge thing could come crashing down and destroying us like the dinosaurs! Just very slow and unbelievable....everything was taken down to such low levels that one can fall asleep watching this. Furthermore, the actors themselves didn't really make the characters their own. Just seemed like a bunch of ppl talking to each other like you'd see on a train or something. Dirk's character Victor who was the movie villain was well....not very villain like....just came of as a huge whining ass kisser. Plus supposedly Baldwin's character and the lead lady ended up together somehow in the end but during the movie there was not even a hint of an attraction. So having that happen out of the blue seemed just too forced and improper. Should have had something lead into it instead of just throw it on us like something to end the movie with.A total bore....ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ