Judging by looking at this movie, the film-makers must have thought they had gold. The original source material seemed good enough to create and interesting and deep thought provoking sci-fi movie with. I seemed however like they had no idea how to handle its concept properly. Instead they threw in some adventure and lame action to make the movie a good and interesting one but the end result is far from satisfying.It's an obviously cheaply made movie, with low production values, which can be seen back in its small sets and the unimaginative look of the overall movie, which is especially disappointing for a movie of its sort. Yes you can call this a typical straight to DVD B-movie.What makes the movie all the more worse are the acting performances. Some people should just never be allowed to work in the movie business. This movie does really have some untalented people uttering their lines in front of the camera in it. The movie still has David Carradine though, which always adds some pleasure to any movie.The movie is just never any exciting or spectacular to watch. The movie could had raised some thought provoking elements and themes but at fails at every attempt to do so. The action and more adventurous elements of the movie are also far from good enough to still consider this movie a watchable one.The story is being told too messy and without any imagination really. Seems like director Gwyneth Gibby has no passion for the genre really and also certainly no experience in it. There really is no reason why you should ever watch this clumsy little movie.4/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

Loved Azimov for 45 years. Couldn't BELIEVE how awful a movie could be made from the highest quality material. The worst issue: stunningly horrible acting from the whole ensemble, as if forced emotion and stilted delivery were contagious. I had to stop after ten minutes, tried again the next day, stopped after another ten minutes solely due to the acting. I have loved movies all my life and own 1475 movies. First impression is that this was the worst acting I ever saw in my life.I'm sure there are other areas I could address, but I couldn't get interested enough to carry on. I also looked in this website to see if most people saw that same travesty I did. THEY did too.

I'm writing this comment to warn all of you out there who think that a low average here on IMDb means a laughable b-movie (as I usually do ;) ). This movie is only annoying! Even more so if you've actually read the story that it claims to be originated from.The movie looks as if it was produced in the late 80's (but the cover says year 2000) and the guy who adopted the story from novel to screenplay can not have read Asimov's version. He can at most have gotten half of it retold by someone speaking a foreign language that he doesn't really understand. Why else would he completely remove the second half of the story? Did the crew quit as a protest to the horrific acting? I can only guess...Summary: This movie is a total waste of time!

I'm not that much of a hardcore Asimov fan, but Nightfall is one of my favotire stories. I saw this movie at the rentals and decided to give it a go. Like many other pointed out - the only thing similar to the story is the fact that there is indeed an eclipse on 6 sun world. The director decided to build the movie around the point where everyone go insane and start burning things. Which is an important part of the story, but not THE most important one. Not to mention the use of SUPER POWERS? "Hmmm... this story is nice, but let's add superpowrs to it! Yeah, that should make them watch it!" Err, not. To sum it all up - If you read the book, don't see this, it has little to do with the story and you will just sit and say "Ehhh... he can light flames with his mind?". I know i did :)