EarthFall
(2015/Anchor Bay DVD)
Picture:
B- Sound: B- Extras: D Film: C-
Where
do you hide for the end of the world?
Steven
Daniel's Earthfall (2015) is another end of the world disaster
flick produced on a low budget that strives to be a Roland Emmerich
(Independence Day, 2012) film but ends up being another film
on The SyFy Channel level of quality. Starring Joe Lando (Dr
Quinn, Medicine Woman), Michelle Stafford (General Hospital),
Mark Rolston (Shawshank Redemption) and Denyse Tontz (All
My Children), the film offers some some B-movie quality scares
and action of the like from the creators of L.A. Apocalypse
(these kinds just love blowing stuff up).
As
a rogue planet soars through our solar system, it acts as an
intergalactic magnet that pulls Earth into its wake. Meteors falls
like rain and we are left with Steve Lannon (Lando), a man determined
to reunite with his ex-wife (Stafford) and his teen daughter (played
by Tontz). Soon, the family comes across a government installation
that uncovers a nuclear mission that will either put our planet back
in orbit or destroy it.
It
seems at the core of these end of the world movies, there's also a
family on the mends that come together as a result of the world being
destroyed, is there literally no other story ideas? Anyways, the low
budget film never reaches the heights that its screenplay hopes to
accomplish with at times laughable special effects and second rate
cinematography. Stick with the Roland Emmerich films and safely skip
this if you want to see the world blow up.
Presented
in standard definition with an anamorphic widescreen aspect ratio of
1.78:1 and a lossy Dolby Digital 5.1 track, the film looks and sounds
fine for DVD, but doesn't come close to Blu-ray quality. No extras
are on the disc.
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James Harland Lockhart V
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