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Megafault (2008/Asylum DVD)

 

Picture: C     Sound: C     Extras: D     Film: D

 

 

To try and get a little of the money out of Roland Emeriti’s hit 2012 (a 2009 release that opened far better than anyone expected), the very bad cable TV film Megafault (2008 and inspired by older bad disaster releases) with bad digital effects in another natural disaster film where anything that can crumble does.  This includes the teleplay.

 

David Michael Latt directed this dud that appeared on the SyFy Channel (the unnecessarily renamed Sci-Fi Channel, possibly marking a new era of decline there) in a sorry project that wastes Brittany Murphy, Eriq LaSalle and Bruce Davidson.  The title refers to fault lines so bad, they break the earth’s crust and people will die.  The biggest “fault” is that it was ever greenlit in the first place.  This is amusingly dubbed “Special Director’s Cut”, but don’t believe it.  Just skip it.

 

The anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image is soft throughout with bad digital effects and a generally flat look, while the Dolby Digital 5.1 mix is a joke being to loud and harsh throughout when it is not weak and has a poor soundfield throughout.  This has supposedly been issued on Blu-ray, but we cannot imagine that playing back much better.  Extras include a cast/crew feature length audio commentary, trailers and making of featurette.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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