There are times when I am critical of low budget television films, but all those occasions pale into insignificance and are eclipsed by this indescribable 2 hours of purgatory.Ham acting doesn't begin to describe these wooden characters, half of whom can't decide whether they are English actors trying to be Americans, or vice versa, as all the accents sound forced and so totally wrong.The action moves between not only locations, but entire countries, with amazing speed and terrible scene changing.The physical locations are abysmal in their lack of authenticity. Living as I do, not a stones throw from the 'real' Stonehenge, it was almost laughable to see an 'English' primary school look so much like its US counterpart, not to mention the forest which has suddenly grown up around the stones overnight. Land rovers driven by pseudo English army personnel suddenly become left hand drive vehicles and nuking this ancient site, without it affecting anything else around it, seems to be at the top of everyone's agenda.The end was about as credible as the rest of the film, although by then I had given up watching and was listening from another room!

Now don,t get me wrong I like a good adventure as much as the next person,aliens prophecies,conspiracies etc. so the story line was OK.BUT everything else PUHLEASE!Only 3 actors had English accents,wrong rank insignia,mountains on Salisbury Plain (not the last time I went},a gigantic English primary school built like no others, complete with basket ball hall!,all vehicles left hand drive including a Humvee.Stonehenge obviously computer generated with wrong grass(north American grass is different) and as you say over there,much,much more but I can,t go on.It must have cost a couple of million dollars spoiled by a few cents.Sorry one last thing.A US general turns up, takes charge on British soil,at one of our most precious monuments and a World Heritage Site to boot,I don,t think so.

While this is a fairly typical doomsday device movie, it's well executed. There are a minimum of black and white characters, with even the American guns-blazing general having moral ambiguities. It's not hard to predict which characters will die and when, but I found myself rooting for them anyway. The one kind of surprising twist is that the hero doesn't get the girl in the end, because he doesn't survive. Many disaster movies pull even more of a deus ex machina that they would have to otherwise in order for the hero to live through the disaster, but this movie is aware enough of reality that the hero doesn't survive multiple gunshot wounds and probably a buttload of radiation and/or a massive electromagnetic pulse. I approve.

If one wishes to make a motion picture in the Science Fiction genre, one should start with a reasonably valid premise and develop the plot around that premise. It makes the storyline more or less believable. Furthermore, the plot should be developed in a believable manner. The concept of detonating a nuclear device at the Stonehenge location by some American General, without a word of interference from the British people is a bit of an imaginative stretch to say the least. Furthermore, it conveys a condescending attitude and the impression that if the world is to be saved, it will be done by an American. Overall, the plot was trite and boringly predictable.Comparing this poorly thought out piece with '2012' (As seen on the DVD box cover) is ridiculous and serves only to engender further distrust of movie reviews. Having said that, I didn't think much of the concept behind '2012' either but at least the plot was interesting.