Supernova (2005)
A international science conference is held in Australia when Dr. Austin Shepard mysteriously disappears. Dr. Shepard's colleague, Christopher Richardson and other people are soon faced with the reality of an impending crisis and an attempt to keep the information from the public. While a full-blown supernova does not occur, explosions on the sun cause massive damage in Australia, and is shown often in Sydney and in various other cities and countries of the world.
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Truly Dreadful Film
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
The typical catastrophe scenario:1. Scienetists find out that the world will be destroyed.2. The VIP objects, because they will not want to be no VIP no more.3. Incarcerate all scientists and journalists to prevent them from telling the "people".4. Add a few side kicks, like a murderer/rapist escaping, and then his final capture/death (since the concept of the planet Earth going down the drains obviously isn't exciting enough).Heck, I don't know where to start with all the goofs in this shite. Suffice to say that Tina Carrera spends almost half the movie to get to St. Louis in various right-hand drive vehicles driving on the left side of roads with all white line markings. Where do they have that with a St. Louis within driving distance?And no, there'll never be a supernova in this solar system. When our sun runs out of fuel some 7-8 milliard (billion to those who doesn't know the proper maths notation) years ago, it'll simply grow bigger for some 100 million years, and then swallow all the small planets inside of Mars, and after that it'll turn into a silent star that will not be noticed anymore.If only they had named the movie Solar Flares, it might have gotten another star from me.
****SPOILER ALERT!******SPOILER ALERT!!!!!*******I WILL REVEAL THE ENDING!!!!******I WILL REVEAL THE ENDING!!!!****** I've had this thing for about 2 years but could never bring myself to watch it. I knew what I was getting into when I read the description. When I saw the words "Sun" and "Supernova" together, it was obvious that the story was written by a high school drop out. But it doesn't stop there...add to that a subplot that includes an escaped serial killer and man...then the horrible acting, horrible accents, horrible effects...This is quite possibly the worst movie ever made.It seems that an "Astrophysicist" discovers that the Sun is much older than previously thought. Like this alone changes the mass to the point that the Sun could "supernova". And during this time of great discovery, an asteroid hit the Sun. Yeah, an asteroid. I guess this was some form of foreshadowing but they never tied it in to why the sun keeps belting out CMEs directly at Earth.Now for the lamest scene in movie history: Said astrophysicist was hiding out on a beach in a shack. And the "solar fireballs" that seem to pin point major cities...yep, scored a direct hit on his shack. And to add to the insult against viewers, this was right after he finally found true love.****SPOILER HERE!!!!!******ENDING REVEALED!!!***** I'm going to spoil the ending. Luke Perry pours over the calculations and finds out that the original equations of the now dead astrophysicist were wrong. He had a plus sign where it should have been a minus sign. (NO, REALLY ITS IN THE MOVIE!) And now that the Sun has been put back into its proper place by the correct mathematical operator...its time to finish the random serial killer story (who all this time had done nothing but walk around looking evil and riding a stolen motorcycle). Long story short. Luke Perry's wife kills him. The end.
Ditto what everyone else said. About halfway through I was tempted to start MST3King this film (my husband & I do this a lot on dumb movies). Plot, acting, scenery and fake Aussie accents have already been well covered. But...what is the deal with Dr (did he get his PhD from one of those schools you see ads for on late-night TV?) Chris Robinson is trying to protect his family? "Whoa! There's a mad rapist/murderer after my womenfolk, and the power went out, so how about I go out into the dark foggy night to start the genny, taking only a handgun and a flashlight so the Evil Convict can see where I am? And for good measure, how about I find the genny and don't bother to peer around to make sure said Evil Guy isn't about to conk me on the head?" And the Evil Guy wasn't the brightest bulb on the string, either. If he really wants the womenfolk, why doesn't he take the gun he just picked up and pop Luke, er, Phony PhD Chris? No, instead he conks him on the head, picks up the gun, and WALKS AWAY! I don't write screenplays, but maybe I oughta try. I could do better than this with a bad hangover.
The only reason for wasting my time on this production was the good acting by the cast. They should have been employed in a true movie.The main plot is ages away from being convincing, inciting, even interesting. That's probably why a stupidly exaggerated subplot was inserted. The camera work is OK and the CGI fits. But there's nothing more.The only point in watching this third rate production might be the acting, as stated above, notwithstanding the charming beauty of Burton-Hill.2 for the sake of the cast.