Supernova (2005)

i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Based on his exhaustive analysis the world's foremost astrophysicist named "Dr. Austin Shepard" (Peter Fonda) concludes that the sun will turn into a supernova within a week which will cause the destruction of all life on earth. Not wishing to cause any panic he notifies a few colleagues in other parts of the world and quietly goes to a remote location to spend his last days. Unfortunately, his disappearance causes immediate concern to his staff along with suspicion by several intelligence agencies most notably the National Intelligence Organization (NIO) who dispatches "Special Agent Lisa Delgado" (Tia Carrere) to investigate. Not long afterward, the esteemed colleagues of Dr. Shepard are rounded up by the NIO along with another astrophysicist by the name of "Dr. Chris Richardson" (Luke Perry) to analyze the accuracy of Dr. Shepard's work. Meanwhile several natural disasters caused by solar flares wreck havoc upon the earth which increases speculation and turmoil throughout the world. Along with that, a serial killer escapes from prison and is targeting the woman who testified against him—"Brooke Richardson" (Jessica Brooks)—the wife of Dr. Richardson. At any rate, rather than detail the entire plot and risk spoiling the movie for those who haven't seen it, I will just say that this turned out to be rather disappointing overall. Not only was it a bit too long (172 minutes) but it also has some incredibly slow moments combined with several subplots which didn't seem to add much to the main plot. It almost seemed like the director (John Harrison) was totally confused about what to keep in the film and what to edit out so he didn't bother to cut anything. Be that as it may, although I liked Tia Carrere, I didn't particularly care for the performances of any of the other actors. That said, this film has too many weaknesses for me to rate it higher than I have. Below average.

Ditto what everyone else said. About halfway through I was tempted to start MST3King this film (my husband & I do this a lot on dumb movies). Plot, acting, scenery and fake Aussie accents have already been well covered. But...what is the deal with Dr (did he get his PhD from one of those schools you see ads for on late-night TV?) Chris Robinson is trying to protect his family? "Whoa! There's a mad rapist/murderer after my womenfolk, and the power went out, so how about I go out into the dark foggy night to start the genny, taking only a handgun and a flashlight so the Evil Convict can see where I am? And for good measure, how about I find the genny and don't bother to peer around to make sure said Evil Guy isn't about to conk me on the head?" And the Evil Guy wasn't the brightest bulb on the string, either. If he really wants the womenfolk, why doesn't he take the gun he just picked up and pop Luke, er, Phony PhD Chris? No, instead he conks him on the head, picks up the gun, and WALKS AWAY! I don't write screenplays, but maybe I oughta try. I could do better than this with a bad hangover.

Wow, I feel cheated out of the time I wasted watching this utter garbage. It came on channel 35 (ION) in the middle of a Sunday. That's when I usually get suckered into watching something crappy, I guess, since I was feeling particularly lazy and absolutely nothing good was on the TV. While most of the other reviewers rightly pointed out out how awful this was, I don't think it will become a "cult favorite", like some said. There really is nothing redeeming about this.Why does Luke Perry still get ANY acting jobs? All he does in this is kind of mumble and stumble around. He has the charisma of a turnip, and doesn't even know how to act angry when some killer is trying to kill his annoyingly cute wife and child! I was rooting for the bad guy to kill him. The killer inexplicably only knocks him out! Then his wife has to save him! And poor Tia Carerre. I always thought she was hot looking, but she always seems so cold and sexless on-screen. It's as if she is under orders to never flirt or act sexy, or ever kiss anyone! She is always single and childless as well.The scenes with Peter Fonda and the lone blond woman on the beach were excruciating to watch as well. They are killed in a really stupid manner by a heat-seeking sun-chunk (don't ask). After suffering through about 3 hours to the end, I was hoping the sun would indeed put everyone out of their misery! No such luck, though. Like so many other stupid "disaster" movies and TV shows, there is always a stupid happy ending! The creators never have the stones to actually follow through on their "end of the world" scenario!

Why, oh why, do I keep getting suckered by promotional trailers for DVDs? Anyway, if you have seen the promo trailers for this film, be warned: they are clearly concerning another film never made, brief clips of which showing up in this one for no discernible reason whatsoever.The principle problem here is a script that thinks it's a remake of "The Day After" but which would fit just about any daytime soap-opera. Since the premise of the film derives from astro-physics, the finale - a typically empty 'happy ending', having absolutely no grounding in any science whatsoever - makes no sense whatsoever.Although the film actually avoids religion, let's put the matter in religious terms for clarification: Imagine Judgment Day; and God is really pee-ed off and decides no one is worth saving. Suddenly, Peter Pan's Tinkerbell pops up and reminds God that if he really really believes, creation can be saved. God smiles down on a half-dozen soap-opera stars (no, they haven't repented, what's to repent?), and suddenly we're all back in Eden.... - Scientifically speaking, that's "Supernova".What brilliant con-artist convinced anybody this film could be made? And who are the emotionally troubled people who would like this garbage? By the way, if you're wondering whether one could watch this turkey all the way through, the answer is no; after giving it some 20 minutes, sheer boredom demanded I started skipping scenes sequentially trying to find something interesting to watch. I didn't. But I did watch the whole of the finale to see if there was anything important I'd missed. There wasn't.And there wouldn't be anything important missed if you skipped the whole film.