I'm not sure exactly what I just watched.Okay, based on someone else's (the main protagonist) data , a scientist has figured out the sun is going to go supernova within a couple months. Never mind our sun is projected to die out as a red giant instead of exploding, but let's just go with it.So, we've got government agents wandering around, trying to scoop up those people who will have been determined to possess the "necessary" skill sets if there are any survivors left (a la' a Noah's Ark kind of thing) who can rebuild the civilization. How an FBI agent qualifies, I don't know. And of course, there are people who don't want to be herded into underground sanctuaries. Add to it, the main protagonist's wife and daughter are being hunted by an escaped rapist. I suppose to use the sup-plot of the wife being virtually helpless due to her father's abuse of her and her mother in her childhood. All feed into her throwing away her psychoses, become strong, and an excellent marksman (you figure out what happens next).So, after awhile the hero figures out his data on the age of the sun was incorrect, due to using a plus sign instead of a minus sign in one of the equations, so it's not going to explode anytime soon. And somehow, miraculously, all the plasma, meteors, etc. that the sun has been throwing at the Earth stops once he figures out his mathematical mistake. Not a single eruption. It's a miracle, I tell you.Add in some laughable CGI (particularly when St Louis gets destroyed - which still has the old, cookie-cutter Busch Stadium 2 instead of the new Busch Stadium 3), and the dizziness hasn't a chance of dissipating.Stay away. Stay far away.

Ditto what everyone else said. About halfway through I was tempted to start MST3King this film (my husband & I do this a lot on dumb movies). Plot, acting, scenery and fake Aussie accents have already been well covered. But...what is the deal with Dr (did he get his PhD from one of those schools you see ads for on late-night TV?) Chris Robinson is trying to protect his family? "Whoa! There's a mad rapist/murderer after my womenfolk, and the power went out, so how about I go out into the dark foggy night to start the genny, taking only a handgun and a flashlight so the Evil Convict can see where I am? And for good measure, how about I find the genny and don't bother to peer around to make sure said Evil Guy isn't about to conk me on the head?" And the Evil Guy wasn't the brightest bulb on the string, either. If he really wants the womenfolk, why doesn't he take the gun he just picked up and pop Luke, er, Phony PhD Chris? No, instead he conks him on the head, picks up the gun, and WALKS AWAY! I don't write screenplays, but maybe I oughta try. I could do better than this with a bad hangover.

Wow, I feel cheated out of the time I wasted watching this utter garbage. It came on channel 35 (ION) in the middle of a Sunday. That's when I usually get suckered into watching something crappy, I guess, since I was feeling particularly lazy and absolutely nothing good was on the TV. While most of the other reviewers rightly pointed out out how awful this was, I don't think it will become a "cult favorite", like some said. There really is nothing redeeming about this.Why does Luke Perry still get ANY acting jobs? All he does in this is kind of mumble and stumble around. He has the charisma of a turnip, and doesn't even know how to act angry when some killer is trying to kill his annoyingly cute wife and child! I was rooting for the bad guy to kill him. The killer inexplicably only knocks him out! Then his wife has to save him! And poor Tia Carerre. I always thought she was hot looking, but she always seems so cold and sexless on-screen. It's as if she is under orders to never flirt or act sexy, or ever kiss anyone! She is always single and childless as well.The scenes with Peter Fonda and the lone blond woman on the beach were excruciating to watch as well. They are killed in a really stupid manner by a heat-seeking sun-chunk (don't ask). After suffering through about 3 hours to the end, I was hoping the sun would indeed put everyone out of their misery! No such luck, though. Like so many other stupid "disaster" movies and TV shows, there is always a stupid happy ending! The creators never have the stones to actually follow through on their "end of the world" scenario!

SuperNova is an astonishingly cheeseball TV disaster miniseries--not that I expected much more than that. The acting is truly awful, the plot is utterly riddled with clichés. The Spunky Hero (Luke Perry) has to stop the sun from exploding or something like that. Tia Carrere plays his butt-kickin FBI gal pal. But there's no friskiness between these two--he's got a loving wife and adorable daughter at home.Who are in danger from (*gasp*) a RAPIST! The series stupidly segue-ways from an exploding sun to a convicted rapist going after the Loving Wife and the Adorable Daughter.The Adorable Daughter is played by Eliza Bennett, who sadly had to take a stop in this miniseries before she stars in the highly anticipated 2008 fantasy film 'Inkheart,' also starring Brendan Fraser and Paul Bettany. And Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent.You get my point. There are probably people with potential talent here, but is is, of course, wasted in this awful film. Don't pick this one up.