646f9e108c After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading toward Earth. If it hits, it will cause an incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor, NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules," but soon discovers that it doesn't have enough firepower. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR, which has also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
The USA must join forces with the USSR in order to destroy a gigantic asteroid heading straight for Earth.
Disaster features were quite popular within this period, but the low-end 'Meteor' didn't live up to those of its ilk. Instead it was a lacklustre, overly talky and robotic performed presentation with the Cold War angle being the centre piece to the real larger problem (the meteor) taking a passenger seat. <br/><br/>A fast moving, five mile wide meteor is hurtling to earth, and the only way to stop it is for America and USSR to work together and admitting to the use of nuclear weapons in space. After a tussle to come to terms, a truce is met and the plan is set. <br/><br/>The heavy-handed material (penned by Ronald Neame and Stanley Mann) is drab with lots of dragged out exchanges about what to do and having America and USSR trying not cave in to one another (involving some politically moralistic squabbling) about their nuclear weapons in space… there's even room for some pointless one-dimensional melodramas. Then where left with the waiting game, is the plan going to work? All is good, but nothing interesting is really made of it. The actor's faces seem to tell the story too. Sean Connery looks distant, despite his tough presence and the lovely Natalie Wood never truly convinces. Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Trevor Howard, Martin Landua and Henry Fonda also make-up a solid looking cast, that fail to make a mark. <br/><br/>Robert Neame's direction is ponderously slack and bland,he never sets up much in the way of suspense or even thrills (with some few minor pockets involving meteor-splinters making an impact). I would rather blame it to what he had to work withthe script is inconsistently haggard and filled with cheesy devices. Watch his other film 'The Poseidon Adventure (1972)' instead for something of similar lines done better. As for the special effects… poor, real poor. The outer space scenes looked okay, but those involving the meteor splinters (quite a light-show) and their disastrous effects (stock-footage) looked abysmally shoddy. Laurence Rosenthal's score is completely overwrought. <br/><br/>A terribly limp production that feels like it's in slow-motion for everyone.
I know, you are thinking that it was made in 1979 so the effects are not up to par with today's stuff. No, I mean the special effects are bad for then.<br/><br/>The special effects just don't measure up to movies like Star Wars (the space scenes) or other disaster movies of the time. I like Sean Connery though and the rest of the cast is rather good, so this one is not completely unbearable. It is, however, rather slow moving and when a chunk of meteor falls it is not very impressive at all. The highlight would have to be the tidal wave that hits Japan, it looks okay, but that is only when compared to all the other scenes in the movie when the meteors strike. The ones that burn up over Italy look like brake lights flying through the sky, the mountain top blowing up also looks incredibly bad. Then there is the scene at the end where they have to get through a tunnel, it looks good, but the scene is so short. You are left wishing there was a bit more to it (though I can't believe they covered Connery with mud like that). This movie needed to be a bit more like other disaster movies in that there is more stuff in the middle of the film other than the two minute scenes depicted meteor damage. Most of the action here took place at the end.

As the title implies, Meteor is a disaster movie about a meteor about to hit the Earth in seven days. The only way the American experts can think of to stop the meteor is by hitting it with their orbital nuclear missiles, dubbed Hercules, which are currently pointed at the USSR. The problem is that the combined power of the Hercules missiles is not powerful enough to stop the meteor, so the US wants to unite their Hercules missiles with the missiles from the USSR's secret Peter the Great project, which are currently pointed at the United States. An additional problem is that neither government wants the other government to know that they even have such missiles. Meteor is based on a screenplay by screenwriters Edmund H North and Stanley Mann. However, it was inspired by Project Icarus, a report written by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a hypothetical systems project. The report focused on the concept of using missiles to deflect an asteroid that might become threatening to Earth. The project was described in the June 1967 issue of Time magazine and publisheda book, Project Icarus: an MIT Student Project in Systems Engineering, in 1968. The chain of events started when a never-seen-before comet appeared from the other side of the sun and passed through the asteroid belt, hitting a large asteroid knownOrpheus. Orpheus broke into chunks. Several of those chunks started on a trajectory course with the Earth. Most of the pieces were small, but one particular chunk was five miles wide and could do serious damage to the Earth if it hits. This chunk, now knownthe Orpheus meteor is projected to hit the Earth in six days. The Russian missiles are launched. While waiting for the 20 minutes to pass until they can launch the American missiles, Dr Bradley (<a href="/name/nm0000125/">Sean Connery</a>) receives a message from Sir Michael Hughes (<a href="/name/nm0002145/">Trevor Howard</a>) in England informing him that another chunk of Orpheus has been spotted heading for New York. Moments after the American missiles are fired, the chunk hits New York, causing massive destruction and destroying the World Trade Center. Because the control center is located in an old subway shaft under the Bell System building, it is not completely destroyed, but the rubble traps the survivors underground. Bradley leads out the survivors through the subway tunnels, enduring muddy water from the East River and breaking through blocked tunnels. When they get almost to the top, they are able to listen to a news broadcast saying that the missiles were successful in breaking up the meteor, justsomeone breaks through the last pile of rubble from the outside, freeing them all. In the final scene, Bradley and Harry Sherman (<a href="/name/nm0001500/">Karl Malden</a>) are at the airport, seeing off Tatiana (<a href="/name/nm0000081/">Natalie Wood</a>) and Dubov (<a href="/name/nm0001417/">Brian Keith</a>). Tatiana kisses Bradley. As she boards the plane, Dubov says to her in Russian, "I think you'll come back one day." Tatiana replies in Russian, "Perhaps." Yes. Natalie Wood (born Natalia Nikolaevna Zahkarenko to Russian immigrant parents) spoke fluent Russian,did Brian Keith.
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