Supernova (2005) (TV)

Regista:

John Harrison

Writers:

Steven H. Berman (writer)
Don Keith Opper (writer)

Data di uscita:

5 settembre 2005 (USA)

Genere:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi

Slogan:

The day the world catches fire.

Plot:

A scientific possibility becomes a terrifying reality when the most powerful force in the universe threatens to hurtle home.

Plot Keywords:

Supernova | Fire | Sydney Australia | Australia

Recensioni degli utenti:

Poorly researched

Cast

Luke Perry	...	Dr. Chris Richardson
Tia Carrere	...	Lisa Delgado
Peter Fonda	...	Dr. Austin Shepard
Clemency Burton-Hill	...	Ginny McKillip
Emma Samms	...	Laurie Stephenson
Jessica Brooks	...	Brooke Richardson
Eliza Bennett	...	Haley Richardson
Marcus Jean Pirae	...	Dr. Marshall Peters
Philip Lenkowsky	...	Grant Cole
Ronald Pickup	...	Dr. Malcolm Handey
Lance Henriksen	...	Colonel Harlan Williams
Patrick Walton Jr.	...	Agent Means (as Patrick Walton)
Nkuli Kgositsile	...	Linda Darlington
Chris April	...	Dr. Duka Ibrahim
Mehboob Bawa	...	Dr. Rani Vahpayee

Durata:

Brazil:180 min

Nazionalità:

USA

Lingua:

Inglese

Colore:

Colore

Divieti:

Australia:M | Netherlands:12 (DVD)

Luoghi delle riprese:

Cape Town, South Africa

Company:

Larry Levinson Productions

Errori:

Errori geografici: When Prof Austin escapes to the beach hut in the Maldives, we see in the background a very large mountain. The Maldives are flat, with the highest point above sea level about 2.4 metres (8ft)

Movie Connections:

Fa riferimento a The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Poorly researched

This movie is full of holes. It's the middle of the day in Sydney at the same time as the Sahara, India and what I presume to be Central America, when they're all meant to be in Australia they keep changing the side of the road that they're driving on, the number plates are not Australian (the cars either), half the street signs don't even exist here, waitresses in cafés don't wear uniforms (except at Starbucks), the only Australian accents are terrible, the desert scenes are definitely more like 14 than 4 hours drive from Sydney - everything about Australia in particular is just wrong! And that's because clearly none of it was shot in Australia. Oh and incidentally - we don't have the death penalty in Australia.

Extend that analysis to pretty much every other aspect of the movie and the only conclusion you can draw is that whoever wrote the script lives on a desert island without so much as an Internet connection. Even the Sun manages to explode on only one lateral plane (that which includes the orbit of Earth), and when the city's burning, the riot police waste their water on looters.

It's really difficult to tell what's going on where (and when) because of all these obvious inconsistencies. It wasn't until Luke Perry says "St Louis is half way around the other side of the world" that I really became convinced that they were meant to be in Australia. Couple all of that with a triumvirate of bad special effects, flat acting and a recycled doomsday premise and you've got a real stinker. A complete waste of time if you ask me.

Still, it wasn't as bad as The Perfect Storm.