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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
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  • 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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    4LeonLouisRicci

    Will that Pesky Planet Earth Just Die Already!

    While this Movie was being Filmed, anyone on the Shoot who had Eyes to See should have Called 911 and had Brittany Murphy Admitted to a Hospital. She is Shown here to be Suffering a Physical Ailment that Only Modern Science could Deal With. The Girl was Obviously Sick and this is Proof Captured for Eternity.

    The Movie is Better than 2012: Supernova (2009) by a Factor of about 2.0 on the Richter Scale but that is Saying Almost Nothing because that One is the Pits. Speaking of Pits, there are Quite a Few in this Mega Earthquake as Extinction Movie.

    If there aren't Enough to Cause Some Serious Damage to a City or Three or Four (its hard to keep score in this as things are seldom very clear as to what is going on, just that something is and their watching it), well then will make a Mega Pit of our own. Say about as big as the Grand Canyon. That'll Show this Upstart Quake who's boss.

    The Ending in this, yet another, Made for TV Movie, about the Ending of the World, just Goes On Forever with a Truck setting off Dynamite (by the MegaTons) in an Endless Chase to Outrun a Satellite, while the Aforementioned Sickly Girl keeps Reaching for the Sky at a Rope Dangling from a Helicopter. Does She Reach the Rope? Does the Truck Outrun the Satellite? You'll have to Watch to Find Out.......Or Not!
    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...
    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!
    1dr-mow

    Awful

    Sorry I just saw this movie on Blu-ray DVD and found it so bad that I had to comment. Frankly I can't imagine who would invest their money in such a movie. Everything, from the phony special effects, to the plot line, to the characters, to their ongoing absurd childish dialogue, was far fetched and unbelievable.

    From the start, which showed snow capped mountains at the WV Appalachian mining site, the viewer knew this movie was going to be unbelievable.

    I really think this movie was test run by the movie industry to cut costs by having the writing, production and direction done by sixth graders as a class project.
    1paul_m_haakonsen

    This movie was a Mega Fault!

    I think the people making this movie had their hearts in the right place, but the movie turned out to be so crappy. Everything was against the movie from the start; the casting, the story, the CGI effects.

    Lets start with the cast. Most people seemed like they didn't have their hearts in the project, as if they were going on autopilot. And, although I never were a fan of Murphy, what is up with her in this movie? She looks like she was on crack.

    Moving on to the CGI effects, or lack thereof. Whom have ever seen fissures in the earth opening up and actually track people and cars? Or cracks opening up on one side of the car, then they are magically gone in the next scene, but the car is still driving at the same place. Man, the CGI effects in this movie were poor, no make that pisspoor.

    Somehow I managed to make it through the entire movie. I forced myself because I wanted to sit through what was possibly the worst movie I had ever seen at that time.

    This movie is bad with a capital B. If you, like me, enjoy finding subtle and in-your-face-obvious mistakes in movies, sit down and watch this one. You will have a paper full of errors. :)

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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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