Such a frustrating disappointment

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Yet another Sci-Fi Original and not that hard to watch. We're not talking award-winning or anything. Some of the computer-animated effects with the world coming to an end and all a bit more than par for the course. Far fetched story line, but then this is science fiction...not reality. The largest solar emissions ever are detected and are about to set the whole damn world on fire. To save mankind, hurried scientists are forced to take risky steps to counter the sun's shooting flares breaching the ozone layer.U.S. President Gordon(Louis Gossett, Jr.)calls upon a multi-millionaire maverick scientist Lucas Foster(Mark Dacascos)for help as the clock is running down and the world is facing assured Armageddon. Is this a pulse-pounding action thriller? Let's just say there is no urgent need for Xanax. It is kind of funny that Detroit looks a whole lot like Buffalo. And if Dacascos looks familiar; you have seen him in his role as the Chairman on Food TV's American Iron Chef. Gosset, Jr. the acclaimed actor he is could have phoned in his role. Also in the cast: Joanne Kelly, Conrad Coates, Damir Andrei and Sugith Varughese.

Although I had to suspend disbelief a lot in this, it was worth it because the underlying story has heart and excitement. The production values are low and the scientific merit is questionable at best; but the screenplay is impressively ambitious in scope. And although the budget was extremely limited, some of submarine, fighter plane, and nuclear CGI effects came off quite well.This definitely kept me entertained and I think it's quite underrated. Fans of sci-fi disaster films like Armageddon will enjoy this if they can see past the extreme lack of polish, into the endearing earnestness and ambition that lies beneath.

You probably won't be able to sit through this movie, I wasn't. It's good for a laugh though.This is the plot, from the part of the movie I was able to endure: There's basically a big solar flare, and it's somehow going to set the atmosphere on fire. The solution: We'll blow up the ocean! (I'm not making this up). The water thrown into the air will put out the burning atmosphere, or something.The president is portrayed as naive for thinking that blowing up the ocean is too rash and/or stupid a move. Really, I'm with him on this one.Also, meteorites are falling at cities for some reason. Fortunately shooting them with fighter-launched missiles makes them completely disappear.Maybe they shouldn't have tried to make a serious movie based on a Homestar Runner cartoon. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out this link: http://www.homestarrunner.com/cheatcommando.html

Solar Attack is about a large coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun that threatens to ignite the atmosphere and kill everyone. The president must try and make the right decision and he only has one chance. The scientists and advisors are split, but the president errs on the side of caution and authorizes some dangerous operations. While this film deals with a lesser known extinction level event, the science is still dubious as presented. For the most part, the performances aren't convincing and seems rushed. I think this has more to do with the directing rather than the acting. Dialog is common with little snap. I doubt that even big name actors could have pulled this out of the C+ range. Special effects were nonspecific, general, and unrealistic.