Continuing my plan to watch every Sean Connery movie in order, I come to his second movie of 1979 Meteor.Plot In A Paragraph: The USA must join forces with the USSR in order to destroy a gigantic asteroid heading straight for Earth.Meteor isn't so much a disaster movie as it is a disaster. Almost every role is miscast, they are given ridiculous dialogue, the special effects are ropey at best and considering what is at stake, there is a lack of tension. I'm actually bored writing this review.Meteor didn't make a dent at the domestic box office, failing to recoup its $22 million budget.

All star science fiction movie made by American International Pictures that's in the vein of disaster movies of the '70s.A comet strikes an asteroid belt, and flings a fragment 5 miles long into collision course with earth. Americans have put in orbit satellite carrying 14 rockets each with 100 megaton warhead called "Hercules". They are to use it to shoot the in coming meteor , but it won't be enough to stop it. They must work with the Russians who has similar weapon called "Peter the Great" in orbit and combine their forces to stop the meteor.This movie was made before Walter Alvarez's meteor extinction theory of the dinosaurs. It's foresighted for its time in this respect. The movie has satirical scenes of powers not agreeing to cooperate despite the immanent danger, but it's done deliciously, and fun to watch.The movie has qualities of the low budget science fiction movies of the '50s. But it's done in much grander scale. Good movie that captures the atmosphere of the '70s well.

A 1979 classic Doomsday film. It's a little dated, but very enjoyable for the Scifi Buff. It has a list of top of line Actors from the 1940's all the way up to the 1970's. Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith,and Henry Fonda. I like the soundtrack, It has that 1970's synthesize music that's just classic. The story line is good for it's time , even though it's kinda out of date scientific wise. The special effects are also kinda dated, But hey it was the 1970's, no heavy duty computer special effects like we have today. I give it 8 out of 10. Like most 1970's dooms day films of the time, you just have to take a little grain of salt for the dated look of the film. If you can get past that, your in for one enjoyable movie that you just might want to add to your film collection.

This movie is, above all, an egregious waste of a world-class cast. Did the producers spend all of their money hiring the cast and have nothing left with which to build a decent vehicle for them? That seems to be the only explanation. Everything about 'Meteor' is cheesy: the dialogue, the 'special' effects, the plot, the direction, the music, the editing. Most of the actors look as if they are sleepwalking through their scenes; as if their awareness that they are participating in cinematic malpractice is creating an apathetic milieu. The only bright spot is Brian Keith, who speaks all of his lines in very convincing Russian. He must have worked very hard to pull that off. Natalie Wood also converses in Russian, but this was almost her native tongue, so it comes naturally to her.SPOILER: Very little in 'Meteor' makes sense. Missiles launch in slow motion; people run downhill to escape a tsunami; scientists say that all of the missiles MUST arrive simultaneously in order to have the desired effect, but success is achieved when they arrive at separate times; the subway floods at the end because of 'the river'(?) but more likely because the producers wanted to add another element of danger and a few more minutes to the running time.All in all, 'Meteor' is a total waste. It is only memorable as a small monument to ineptitude.