2012: Supernova (2009)

Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

2012: SUPERNOVA is another mindless disaster flick from The Asylum. I'm always mildly amused that this studio's films have big plots which the primitive CGI effects have no ability to do justice to, rendering them very silly looking and useless. This one has Brian Krause as the usual crusading scientist who must figure out a way to prevent Earth being destroyed by an interstellar shockwave. Along the way he tangles with a doomsday cult and some really, really bad FX. There are few redeeming qualities here; the whole thing's a boring mess of a movie.

Sometime in the 1970s, I think with Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, people discovered really, really bad movies could be fun. Maybe it was with camp in the 1960s, with the televised Batman. College kids would hold bad movie nights on campus. Lord knows there were so many bad movies available from Hammer Films and American International that it could be fun, but maybe it was the Special Movie Enhancers that people smoked at the time. Whatever. Supernova is not in that category. It is not inadvertently bad, as in people trying to make a good or at least passable movie with a high school film project budget. Supernova is just bad: as if people hired the worst actors, the worst scriptwriters, the worst set designers and said, okay, now make a good movie. This is just cheesy from the get go. There's no science. Obviously, people have no idea what a supernova is. There's no plausibility. Apparently, NASA and every other major scientific endeavour involve no more than four people in what looks like abandoned warehouses with a few dials from a 1900s power station. There's no logic. People are getting chased by Hezbollah wannabes, find a truck, get in and drive it 20 feet, abandon it and continue on foot for some inexplicable reason. There's no continuity. The bad guys are driving black SUVs, which they ditch to follow the scientist and his family. In a later scene, mom and daughter are driving what look like the same black SUVs. And BTW, mom and daughter look and act like they're the same age, physically (about 27) and emotionally (about 12). In the end, the rogue scientist saves the earth by – surprise! – blowing up nuclear bombs in the path of a supernova "pulse", whatever that is. Luckily, in this universe, space stations come equipped with dozens of atomic missiles. Back on earth, mother and daughter spend their time driving, if only to allow worried closeups while saving money on sets. Scientists blast off in the space shuttle while wearing 1950s fighter pilot helmets to reach what looks like a space station recycled from a 1970s movie set. Sexy Asian fellow scientist (is there any other kind?) turns out to be a traitor or completely crazy (the script is too bad to help us understand which). Russian scientist turns out to be a drunk hero. The real mystery here is how a movie cliché – a drunk Russian – managed to sneak enough vodka off the set to some viewers so they would give this turkey more than the minimum one star.

This is a movie that you definitely won't sleep through, but for all the wrong reasons.The entire script is implausible, poorly written and could not have even made it at a comic book level. The acting is beyond horrific; the CGI reminded me of the early star Trek days, and the sad part about the whole thing is ..... I watched it ALL. I just could not get enough of BAD! I found myself waiting to see what would happen next to make this movie go from bad to worse. My wait paid off in a masochistic way. The whole thing reminds me of how companies market their products. Make a loud, painful, senseless, disconnected commercial and people will remember it. Bad in their mind is good, but in this case, Bad is just BAD! 1/4 star!

It's not often I turn off a film, but in this case I gave up.I struggled with the storyline, why were people constantly trying to kill the main man?.......it just seemed like the film maker wanted to add in some extras so just plopped it in there.The science was poor.Whilst maybe I should have seen it through to the end. For me I sacrificed what seemed to be a more promising film to watch this.Overall rating, could do better especially as I'm guessing from the occasional good visual there was a budget of more than a few thousand $ available.