Well, I would like to start by saying that I am not surprised by the fact that only a fistful of people know about this excellent movie... they are too busy watching Transformers or American Pie XII to care about some serious film-making. I will not ruin the plot of the film for those who have not seen it yet. I shall only say that if you somehow manage to get a copy of this film, you are on for a treat. Of course, you should not expect multi-million dollar visual effects or or even high definition image -considering this is a low budget film made more than 15 years ago. If you care about interesting stories, well acted and -most importantly- very original, then you shall not be disappointed. When you finish watching, tell your friends about it, "like" the movie on Facebook and Twitter, start a chain-mail telling the world about it, etc. This is the kind of film everybody should see at least once in their lifetimes.

I had high hopes for this film. The idea of a "War of the Worlds"-style fake news broadcast about an imminent asteroid impact was very intriguing. One of my favorite TV films was 1983's "Special Bulletin", which took a similar approach to the subject of nuclear terrorism.Unfortunately, this movie fails on almost all levels. The actors playing the news reporters come off like, well, actors playing news reporters. The plot points are just plain silly and melodramatic. The conclusion of the film is wretchedly insipid. In effect, the fact that humankind takes perfectly logical steps to protect ourselves from an asteroid causes super-advanced aliens to think we're too warlike for them to let us live. Or something like that.The issue of asteroid impacts is real and serious enough that we don't need television trivializing the subject with ridiculous sci-fi elements.

This is without a doubt, one of the greatest made for TV movies I've ever seen. The first time I saw it, I actually thought what was being reported was really happening, so I changed the channel to CNN to see if they were also reporting on it. This movie is a great way to scare someone by making them think what their watching is real.

Although this movie didn't have the same budget as movies like Deep Impact or Armageddon, I thought is was pretty amusing. It's not the special-effects or the beautiful pictures that makes this little film interesting, but the fact that the story is told in the format of a live TV-news broadcast. One of the big American TV-stations follows every minute that the asteroids come closer to earth live, and they used a real newsreader which makes it pretty realistic. These asteroids will hit the earth in 3 places all on the same latitude (43th, I believe), the USA (Midwest), southern France and Northern China. The countries which have access to nuclear missiles combine forces in order to save the world, before thousands of asteroids will hit the earth....