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MegaFault

  • TV Movie
  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
3.1/10
2.5K
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MegaFault (2009)
DisasterActionAdventureDramaSci-FiThriller

When miner Charley 'Boomer' Baxter sets off a series of massive mining detonations in West Virginia, a gigantic earthquake is soon rocking the North Atlantic, exposing a deep seismic fault t... Read allWhen miner Charley 'Boomer' Baxter sets off a series of massive mining detonations in West Virginia, a gigantic earthquake is soon rocking the North Atlantic, exposing a deep seismic fault that runs the length of the North American continent. Joining forces with government seismo... Read allWhen miner Charley 'Boomer' Baxter sets off a series of massive mining detonations in West Virginia, a gigantic earthquake is soon rocking the North Atlantic, exposing a deep seismic fault that runs the length of the North American continent. Joining forces with government seismology expert Dr Amy Lane, Boomer must now race against time to stop the chasm that is threa... Read all

  • Director
    • David Michael Latt
  • Writer
    • Paul Bales
  • Stars
    • Brittany Murphy
    • Eriq La Salle
    • Bruce Davison
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    3.1/10
    2.5K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • David Michael Latt
    • Writer
      • Paul Bales
    • Stars
      • Brittany Murphy
      • Eriq La Salle
      • Bruce Davison
    • 81User reviews
    • 12Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Brittany Murphy
    Brittany Murphy
    • Dr. Amy Lane
    Eriq La Salle
    Eriq La Salle
    • Charley 'Boomer' Baxter
    Bruce Davison
    Bruce Davison
    • Dr. Mark Rhodes
    Justin Hartley
    Justin Hartley
    • Dan Lane
    Paul Logan
    Paul Logan
    • Major Boyd Grayson
    Jack P. Downing
    • General Banks
    Jack Goldenberg
    • Sebastian
    Miranda Schwein
    • Miranda Lane
    Jessica Stratton
    • Dravinski
    Sarah Garvey
    • Jerry Blair
    Jeff Ashcraft
    • Major
    Gloria Long Collins
    • Vanessa
    Trevor Collins
    • Norman
    Mary Cunliffe
    • Joanne Raye
    Richard 'Goose' Giesecke
    • Glen
    Kaitlyn Makelbust
    • Katie
    Paul M. Walker III
    • Doug
    • (as Paul Melvin Walker III)
    Andrew Stephen Pratt
    • Armstrong
    • (as Andrew Pratt)
    • Director
      • David Michael Latt
    • Writer
      • Paul Bales
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    1dsmith583

    One of the worst ever!

    I rented it on Blu Ray, and it is a poor looking Blu Ray. I gave it a 1 and I didn't know that it was made for T.V. but then I suspected that it was when I saw how poor the special effects were. They did not even shake the camera manually (a technique that should hardly ever be used) but it was a type of fake digital camera shake. I agree with jmgalvan in that I would almost recommend it to watch in a Gilmore Girls kind of a way: Sit there and ridicule it. In that respect I found it entertaining, and I laughed a lot. The trouble is, it's an action-drama, and you are supposed to have the myriad of emotions that come with that genre. I love film, and I would much prefer to see a GOOD disaster movie.

    It is beyond me how Britney, (8 Mile) who I think is a fine actress, with 6 films coming out, and the incredible Bruce Davison, (Short Cuts) with four films coming would ever say yes to this. They should fire their agents. Eric LaSalle, (E.R.) is another fine actor, but he hasn't done all that much since he left E.R. which is a shame, and it might explain why he took this role. I thought the acting was good, but with a good script and director, all three of them would have really knocked the walls down which is what I expected, and it was the reason that I rented it.

    The special effects are the worst that I have seen since Buck Rogers, but......back then they had an excuse! LOL
    1ricky42-1

    It's a mega fault watching this

    Absolute gruesome! Extremely bad computer animation at all times, bad scenes, fire and fire and more fire and what the hack has Brittany Murphy to do in this stinker! Being a serious scientist in this movie is not her role at all. She probably felt that this movie is crap while filming it. Exploding toilets for no reason (maybe too much wind in the bowl) ... Yes, it was a mega fault that I watched this piece of art of a different kind. The constant 'Flash Gordon' style CGI is quite annoying as it is simply too much. The few good actors are somehow misplaced in this lengthy b-class movie. It seems they had access to plenty military equipment, planes, Mediforce helicopters and so on, but ti didn't make the movie any better. Don't waste your time!
    1CBAKitesKites

    Purty danged awful!!!!!

    There's really not much more that I can add to what the previous posters wrote.

    The makers of this movie must have as their motto: "Quality, what's that?!"

    If this movie were any more of a dog, it would shed!

    Actually, it's kind of hard to get mad at something so "stupefyingly stupid" as this movie! (It looks like it was made by trolls.)

    "Plan 9 From Outer Space", move over! A new worst movie joins you on the very worst movies list, meaning that at last there's a movie even lower than you!

    If you liked "Crack In The World" with Dana Andrews, now you'll have something to compare it with!
    5MLause

    The end is near...but not near enough....

    Actually, this was so awful it was exquisitely awful. So I'm splitting the difference and giving it a 5 out of 10. But don't get me wrong. This really was the Sarah Palin or Harry Reid of SciFi movies.

    Starting with the snow-capped mountains of West Virginia, the movie then showed us what an earthquake was...something that you detonated by blowing things up...and it caused gaping chasms to open in the ground while something like artillery shells blew up in the air. The notion that a tectonic plate would just kind of split with no reference to any preexisting faults (like, say New Madrid) other than the San Andreas fault just astounded me, but this is science stuff and people who make science fiction movies shouldn't be held to that.

    The geographic ignorance seemed to complement the geological ignorance nicely. Let's see, the nearest city west of Boone County, West Virginia was Lexington, Kentucky. And a plane going down on the outskirts of St. Louis ends a smoking pile of twisted metal outside of Stillwater, Oklahoma. I wonder if any of them had a map in their glove-box when they were filming it.

    But I was also amazed that none of the cast apparently had any problems with these things either.

    A real upside of this was that the viewer didn't really care what happened to the characters. In fact, at the end of the year, everyone involved in it should probably get nominated for some sort of Darwin Award. And there's something to be said for a movie that you can watch without any sense of loss if you should fall asleep.

    And that's an amazing comment for a movie that blows up the Grand Canyon, among other things...
    TV_Ken

    Worst disaster movie I have ever seen.

    This is the worst disaster movie I have ever seen, and believe me, I have seen far too many.

    If you can believe that people can be as stupid as the characters in this movie and that the plot was good enough to pass a 6th grade English class, then this is the movie for you.

    I didn't have to write any spoilers. You can easily guess what will be happening in the plot. If you can't guess, then go watch a few good old disaster movies and get yourself an education.

    I could not wait for the entire world to blow up so that movie would be over. I had to settle for just turning off the TV.

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    • Trivia
      Brittany Murphy's final TV production.
    • Goofs
      While setting the charges, Boomer calls the nearby vehicle a Humvee. It is an out-of-date three-quarter ton truck, not a Humvee.
    • Quotes

      Glen: What is going ON?

    • Connections
      References 10.5 (2004)

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    • Release date
      • October 10, 2009 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Thảm Họa
    • Filming locations
      • Davenport, Iowa, USA
    • Production companies
      • The Asylum
      • Family Films
      • It's Not My Fault
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    • Budget
      • $1,200,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 30m(90 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo

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