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Meteor (1979)

Rate: 3
Viewed: 7/24

Meteo
7/24: The tension throughout Meteor is curiously lacking.

A five-mile long meteor is coming to hit Earth, and everybody is calm about it? Also, they took the time to make a board showing its movement? Sean Connery's character is immediately ordered to help out, but all he can do is woo a Russian female translator. If a bunch of small meteors have hit several cities, does that alter life on Earth? By the way, I'm pretty sure anyone with a powerful telescope can see a satellite up there that's equipped with nuclear warheads.

The cast is very strong which includes four Oscar winners (three wouldn't know this until years later): Sean Connery, Karl Malden, Martin Landau, and Henry Fonda. Unfortunately, the style of editing has drowned them out as it prefers to show me the slow-moving rockets and "five-mile" long meteor many times. The special effects are a mix of okay and terrible, ultimately dating the film to the 50's. The only good part is everybody getting drenched in mud. Now, that's what I call "action." I wondered if Natalie Wood and Brian Keith spoke Russian, and they actually did.

All in all, Meteor is about on the same level as Armageddon, but Deep Impact is the best of the genre.