Meteor

It's five miles wide. It's coming at 30,000mph... and there's nowhere on Earth to hide

METEOR (15)

D: Ronald Neame

MGM/Palladium (Sandy Howard & Gabriel Katzka)

US 1979

107 mins

Science Fiction/Adventure

W: Stanley Mann & Edmund H. North

DP: Paul Lohmann

Ed: Carl Kress

Mus: Laurence Rosenthal

Sean Connery (Dr. Paul Bradley), Natalie Wood (Tatiana Donskaya), Karl Malden (Harry Sherwood), Brian Keith (Dr. Dubov), Martin Landau (Gen. Adkin), Trevor Howard (Sir Michael Hughes), Henry Fonda (The President)

Talkative disaster melodrama, in which a group of scientists discuss the best course of action to avert a huge meteor careering towards Earth.

Unfortunately, the film gets so bogged down in dialogue, in lacks any thrills or tension, and doesn't have much drama either. From the poster alone, it's clear to see that this is TV movie of the week standard, albeit with a strong cast.

4/10