Eve of Destruction

It's not the best acting, nor story lines but it's an ok sofa lazing Sunday afternoon show, it doesn't take much to follow & allows you to type up reviews and watch.

Look, there are lots of technical reasons to cringe at this. Especially if you are a trained film, script, or score editor.

There are points where the storyline borrows almost completely from other SyFy series. There are may points that are completely derivative of movies from the last 20 years. Some of the film- workers are obviously not Russian or "terrorist" types.

Music sometimes sounds stock, and at times overwhelms the dialog to the point of being ridiculous.

Yes, it is really bad most of the time. But you don't have to pay to watch this other than your time and it has some entertainment value.

Just watch the show if you like SyFy productions and decide for yourself. It is at least worlds beyond Sharknado.

and I gave this a 5.... I still watched it through to the end. Chalk it up to sentimentalism, but I really enjoyed some of the writing - the dialog was cheesy as hell sometimes ("We *all* have some explaining to do") but there were honest moments and I actually got surprised a couple times by the success of the attempts to make the characters more relatable and believable.

Treat Williams was a fantastic choice of casting. I could sympathize just enough with the character Max and his menacing side was brilliant.

Most of the other characters were mostly flat and staid, but as I mentioned, there were these glimmers of honest dialog that kept me happy.

All in all, most of the cast was damn good - far better than I expected for a 2 episode miniseries that Netflix basically introduced as "eco-maniacs ruin earth for the rest of us."

Heck, it was good enough that I opened an account on here finally just to comment on it!

Watch it if you have any appreciation for crappy sci-fi or good attempts at making films. I am now off to rate Stargate SG1... 30 stars for every episode!

Eve of Destruction does have its redeeming values, and it is definitely better than Ring of Fire that had nothing to recommend it apart from Terry O'Quinn. The setting in Eve of Destruction has a good austere atmosphere, and while not mind-blowing the photography is hardly what you call amateurish. The acting from the four leads is also better than average, Steven Weber is good as the father figure, Christine Cox does sympathetic believably, Treat Williams makes for a great slime-ball and Aleks Paunovic has a moody and sullen sort of character and he pulls it off nicely. The special effects do stick out like a sore thumb though, while the rest of the production values saw some decent effort put into it the special effects look like a rushed last-minute job. The music is not very memorable, has a tendency to plod and it is unimaginative. It wouldn't have mattered if the characters were clichés, what matters more is making them interesting and despite the commendable lead acting the characters are not developed enough. The secondary roles weren't as involving as the lead roles, they generally lacked personality and were bland as a result. The script is repetitive and resorts too much in random and overwrought melodrama, while the story has a decent concept that is executed with a lack of thrills and tension generally that gets increasingly dull, illogical and cheesy in the second half(Eve of Destruction is a little better paced than Ring of Fire this said, and is not as exposition-heavy). Overall, was lacking and is not that great but could have been much worse. 4/10 Bethany Cox

This movie was actually a lot better than I imagined it would be. I am extremely critical of films, but for some odd reason, this one had a bit of this, a bit of that, and just enough something to make me watch watch it all the way through.

This was no better than a good B movie and far better than some network television shows people think are so awesome. Some actors were good, others need to go back to acting school...but Steve Weber anchored this movie just enough to make it watchable. Treat Williams also made it OK to watch as well. I was actually looking for it to be a bit longer.

The storyline could have been developed a bit more, but other than that, sci-fi buffs can sit through this one.

This movie has the making of a much longer mini-series, imo. Come on, who doesn't want to see Ms Cox run around om film?