Good concept, poorly executed.

Excellent, smart action film.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

As usual, I have the TV on to Telefutura 'cause I'm waiting for "NCIS" on CBS & I'm playing the Wii. I coulda just said this is another run-of-the-mill TV-movie about some killer space turd heading to Earth set to kill millions. Governments & top management have their fears but use their authority to slow down progress to stop the menacing meteors. But some renegade blue-collar worker who's grieving over someone steps in & defies the naysayers into leading the mission to stop the deadly asteroids & save the world in a visually epic fashion. Hero gets the girl (& maybe a medal). The end. Such a film would've made me rate it 2 stars. But that was b4 I began asking questions as I watched the crucial part of "Earthstorm." "Why the hell is the space shuttle launching on a rainy day?" "Why the hell is Stephen Baldwin standing on his own 2 feet in the shuttle in outer space?" "Why the hell is the space shuttle moving like the Millennium Falcon?" You might assume that the writers were high upon writing this, but I think they might've been sober but w/ just a deadline in their rectums. "C'mon, damn you! You got till 3 o'clock!" "Umm, the space shuttle uses a magnetic bomb to fill in the lunar chasm?" "Hmmm. Good enough." I actually was making some tasteless riffs while watching this shuttle scene like, "Well, if Perseus didn't end up like the Challenger maybe it'll suffer Colombia's fate." (one spoiler: The Perseus' return to Earth was so successful that it needed not be shown in the film. How convenient!) Damn, now I got a deadline up my keister so I better state my major points. Yes, the characters appeared to be typical of such disaster films that it deprived "Earthstorm" of chemistry. In fact I watched the film so casually that when the hero kissed the redhead in the end I didn't know (nor care) that there was a spark between the two & joked, "I thought they were brother & sister!" or "I thought one of 'em was gay!" I might understand why space shuttle Perseus got souped up as in reality, many of the space shuttle missions had been mundane, such as visits to the International Space Station & just doing research on astronomy or astrophysics & using shuttle-loads of math. Stephen Baldwin now has another movie alongside "The Flintstones" to be ashamed of. All the while brother Alec is hotter than ever as he wins Emmys, opens his liberal pie-hole, & does Capital One ads. & at least Adam did a film w/ Cindy Crawford despite the negative notoriety for "Fair Game." That reminds me. Considering how atrocious "Earthstorm" was, I only wish this attracted enough votes to vie for the IMDb Bottom 100 but it's only a TV movie & the list is full of films from MST3K (it's cool; I'm a MSTie fan), Paris Hilton movies, & Razzie winners & nominees. To summarize, if possible, rent or download "Earthstorm" but make it a social event, invite friends, & riff your butts off like Joel, Mike, Crow, & Tom Servo used to over the flaws of "Earthstorm," especially on the TOTALLY AWESOME scene where, like, the space shuttle, like, flies through the asteroid field & stuff & like, takes off at Warp Speed? Like, completely epic!!! Incidentally I tweeted to Rifftrax, something done by 3 guys from MST3K, if they'd view "Earthstorm" & riff it; I hope they respond although I think many fans make suggestions to riff many movies. Oh yeah. It's not NASA (who musta LOL'ed upon being asked for permission for using their name) but ASI...I think. It coulda been SNASA for all I care (as in something used in Barney's mating calls on "How I Met Your Mother.") "Earthstorm" sucks! I'm done.

Having a lot of time on my hands since a busy day yesterday, I sat down with nothing else better to do to watch Earthstorm expecting little. As with a movie like Vipers, which I also saw recently, Earthstorm fits in the hilariously awful category. So what was wrong exactly? Well, pretty much everything. The film is poorly made, with very artificial-looking special effects and choppy editing. The script is full of technical jargon, which makes the film horrendously and very amusingly stilted and unintentionally cheesy. The story is dull, predictable and full of plot holes especially with the smoking moon. The characters are clichéd, and none of them ring true or are likable. And the acting is terrible, with Stephen Baldwin giving a bored-looking and sounding performance. So overall, awful but in a hilarious way. 1/10 Bethany Cox

I came here to see what the movie was about because i couldn't find a trailer on youtube.Well i almost didn't watch it because of the comments here. But honestly it wasn't that bad, the cgi could have been better, but its hardly B-grade. Their budget was obviously not huge and there are a couple of things that don't quite fit (they WOULD have known it was coming before it hit the moon) but it really was quite watchable. There is several rip-off from several movies, Apollo13, Deep Impact, even Impact the short TV series and of course Armageddon. But they were good movies so I can overlook that! The worst thing was..... their hair! Steve, it's not the 80s anymore! And Lana, some anti-frizz!

It pains me to be so negative as the the idea of the movie i liked the idea and it had been a while since i had seen a good disaster movie. It is still a while since i have seen a good disaster.Now moving on to the scientific fact, there is none. Astronauts wandering around as if they are on earth instead of zero gravity, a nuclear space shuttle that never runs out of fuel and can have spare parts of it converted to make a fancy bomb while the moon does a good impression of the death star.So feel free to watch this movie, but somewhere a puppy will die and it will be your fault. I gave it a two just because i have seen worst movies (only just)