Doomsday Meteor

Of course I opted to sit down and watch this 2023 natural disaster movie titled "Doomsday Meteor", as I happened to stumble upon it by blind luck here in 2024. I had never heard about the movie, but I do like natural disaster movies, though the vast majority of them are questionable at best. But I harbored no expectation to the movie, so writers Lauren Pritchard and Joe Roche and director Noah Luke had every opportunity to impress and entertain me.

And when the movie started and The Asylum logo popped up, I must admit that some of the air already seeped from the balloon. The Asylum aren't exactly known for their stellar natural disaster movies, and they do have a couple of not so great ones out there. But I still opted to give the movie the benefit of the doubt, as The Asylum do spit out a good movie every now and again.

The storyline in the movie, written by Lauren Pritchard and Joe Roche, was very generic, even for a natural disaster movie. So you're not in for anything out of the ordinary here. If you've seen any movie with a meteor threatening the extinction of life on Earth by colliding with Earth, then you've already seen "Doomsday Meteor", for better or worse.

And you just got to love the ridiculous plans that people concoct in order to get a massive meteor to deviate from its flight path and thus preventing it from impacting with Earth and cause a global disaster. You just sort of get weary and tired of these goofball plans with lasers, missiles, and what not.

The acting performances in the movie were fair enough. There were only a couple of familiar faces on the cast list, that being Patrick Labyorteaux, Anthony Jensen, Caroline Williams and Joseph Michael Harris.

I will say that the special effects and CGI in "Doomsday Meteor" are actually good, taking into consideration that this is a movie from The Asylum. It is nice to see that they keep shoveling money into their effects department, because proper effects are a make-or-break deal in movies such as what The Asylum often spew out.

If you enjoy natural disaster movies, then you might actually get a proper kick out of sitting through 86 minutes of watching "Doomsday Meteor". If not, then you're in for a rather bland natural disaster movie experience that is very much like so many other movies before it.

My rating of "Doomsday Meteor" lands on a four out of ten stars.

I went into watching this with an open mind, knowing it was never going to be the best disaster movie ever made, and I was right. Everything from the story, acting, music and special effects where a joke. In many scences you could see errors in the background, such as bushes on a meteor, and sound effects that aren't timed correctly with the action. The acting is woeful, I've seen better at primary school nativity shows, every line was wooden and had no passion or belief to it. You could tell they were just reading from the script and left you in no doubt they couldn't care less about the realism. The costume designer needs shooting. Bike helmets, plastic backpacks and silver skin tight gloves for landing on a meteor? I'm 100% the local am dram could produce better with the contents of the recycling bin and a trip to hobby craft.

Even if you have time to waste, and like a cheesey made for tv movie, don't bother with this, you'll be wishing for a meteor to put you out of your misery after 10mins.

At first I thought, Hey! Asylum have made a tiny bit better cgi but then it went to hell. And when they sent out an astronaut in a regular motorcycle helmet I gave up. Asylum movies works when they do spoofs like Sharknado. But this? Its just sad. The actors are laughable and its sad to see Caroline Williams of Texas chainsaw 2 fame look like she just want to escape. Alternatively she looks like she dont know what shes doing.

Its ridiculously serious and not tongue in cheek.

Im so happy I didnt pay to watch this piece of garbage. It doesnt need to exist! Why? If you cant make something good why even bother?

Avoid like the plague.

This movie is so cheap they didn't even bother getting an actual general's uniform. The just pinned random badges to a blue suit. They're traveling in a space shuttle, but it looks like a makeshift room in a warehouse, with regular gravity. The "special effects" were done with the new Windows Vista operating system.

The Asylum is known for schlocky movies, but this one is even more cheaper looking than usual. Do these actually make ANY money? Other than confusing people when they're looking for the original movie.

Bruce Willis may need to sue for defamation. This is just another embarrassment.

If you like turkey time movies then I'd say this one is a 6/10.

For example:

Scene: In a large telescope control room the lead character is told an asteroid clump is heading directly for earth. The techie tells him that "the density is 2 objects per meter". Of course that's using the well-known objects per meter density scale, eh! Lol

If you can see the comedy in that then this is worth a laugh or 3.

I can't say this for a fact but it looks like the casting call was for celebrity look-alikes. None of them are playing the celebrity they look like - they are simply acting - however almost everyone in the caste looks like a bit like a star with the minor exception of an actual semi-star Sean Murray, who played Timothy McGee on NCIS.