Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Wordiezett So much average

VividSimon Simply Perfect

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Tayrick Being a fan of sci-fi films, I was initially attracted by the title, but as it appeared this was going to be yet another near-disaster movie of the "asteroid/comet/meteor about to hit the earth and wipe out humanity, but Hooray! America will save the world" genre which has been done so many times before, I nearly didn't bother to continue watching, and with hindsight I'm sorry I did. However, what did sway me was the unusual premise that the asteroid's gravitational effect as it narrowly missed the earth pulled our planet nearer to the sun. (It wasn't clear whether Earth was continuing to approach the sun or whether it was simply in a stable new orbit, but maybe I was losing concentration if that was stated.) However, while raging fires are sweeping across the globe and two rival groups of characters (the goodies and the baddies) are desperately trying to get to a plane to fly them to the Arctic, the possibility is aired that the gravitational force of the other planets might pull the earth back into its proper orbit, and the sign that this has happened would be that rain would once again start to fall. So when the rival factions get to the airport and learn that the plane - their last hope of survival - has crashed, a battle takes place and surprise, surprise - the goodies win. But just as our heroes seem doomed to burn up anyway, Hey presto! Down comes the rain! Gosh - those planets worked pretty fast to get the earth back in place in such un-cosmic haste! My advice is: don't waste an hour and a half watching this!

bkoganbing Poor Casper Van Dien, his career has slid a long way from Tarzan and Starship Troopers.In Meltdown he's a policeman who just happens to be dating TV reporter Stefanie Von Pfeten and her brother is a scientist who's trying to deal with a speeding comment headed for Earth. But in the runaway comet business, even a near miss causes some real problems as the Earth's orbit goes out of kilter.From the survival of the Earth we go to the survival of Van Dien and his immediate family. His daughter's gangbanger boyfriend, Ryan McDonell actually proves to be of some use especially when he suspects a guy he knows as a crooked cop might mean the Van Dien group a lot of harm.My only question here is, why didn't they have Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton and the rest of that crew to deal with the nasty comet?Pass this one up folks.

Michael O'Keefe MELTDOWN is pretty interesting SCI-FI. No major budget, very few special effects; but decent acting and a storyline of global doom is enough to sustain viewing. An asteroid grazes the atmosphere and thrust the Earth into an orbit closer to the sun. Global warming rapidly becomes unbearable. A determined LAPD cop(Casper Van Dien)goes all out to save the world from certain annihilation as the rising temps are devastating. The pressure is on to save mankind from this solar catastrophe; as well as protect his daughter, nurse ex-wife and TV reporter girlfriend. The cast includes: Stefanie Von Pfetten, Venus Terzo, Amanda Crew and Vincent Gale.

ndwinl I liked this film and not just because I'm a guy and think Amanda Crew and the blonde reporter are really hot. It is slightly cheesy as many TV movies are but the science is, for the most part, sound *because* in the end it rains and this indicates some assumptions the lead scientists made in the film were wrong ( see the FAQ I started ).Notice all the Washington state license plates and one California license plate throughout the movie ( the film was shot in B.C. )? This shows the director, actors, screenwriter(s) and producers understand a global catastrophe is truly global.I must dispute what Ladyliberty wrote: ''..While the story here is okay and actually has some real potential, the script is just awful. The science part of the science fiction is non-existent starting with the asteroid pushing the earth out of orbit and escalating with the notion that the "gravitational balance of the solar system''No, it is not non-existent. I think that layer getting burned off at the beginning of the film by the space rock is the rest of our Earth's ozone layer and that Earth's orbit around the sun and/or rotational axis was only slightly offset. Meltdown's problem is it narrows the focus of global review of an incoming asteroid/meteorite to a single group of scientists. The film is politically and economically unrealistic -- that's OK sci-fi doesn't have to be ( this time ).''..the fact is that such scenarios are a very real danger to the planet. Unfortunately, we've tracked nowhere near all of the near earth asteroids that could be worrisome in some orbit some day''Ha, you probably do not know there is a recurring military side independent of NASA's infrastructure and has sort of been that way since the late 1970's or early 1980's. In addition to many professional amateur astronomers pointing their reflector and refracting telescopes at the night sky on a daily or weekly basis there are large scale CCD cameras mounted to orbiting satellites pointed away from the Earth that pretty much do nothing but look for approaching chunks of rock.I give Meltdown six out of ten stars during a year that saw very little sci-fi. It seems western Canada is the new sci-fi Hollywood.