Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

alqemyst Or apocryphal, or absolute rubbish, or ... but I could go on so. I was looking around the DVD store for something to watch, not the usual crap I have been seeing lately by the Salmi brothers, and I caught this title and though I'd give it a try. What a mistake that was.Technically it stunk. I don't usually worry about this side of things but when you can't hear half of the dialogue (get to that later) it does make it hard to watch.Story wise it had promise, but this promise was waived aside after 5 minutes of viewing. We actually watched it on fast forward looking for the interesting bits (there were none). I could even live with the religious overtones but they got too damn ludicrous to put up with.But hey don't believe me, I'm sure someone else on this page has given a favourable comment - not

robospyindustries I fancy myself as something of a bad movie connoisseur. Usually, I actually like bad movies - the wooden acting, meandering plot, horrible directing and illogical editing, when combined in the proper proportions, can make for a truly entertaining spectacle, a comedy where no humor was intended. When watched with the proper attitude, some of the worst films ever made can also be some of the best. (Caveat: Bad comedies are always bad.) This is especially true of science fiction and horror, where the prodigious suspension of disbelief we are asked to adopt means the movie has a long way to fall if that suspension should fail. So I was excited to find this science fiction disaster movie, aptly entitled The Apocalypse, gracing the IMDb Bottom 100 list. I acquired it and settled in for a good time.As I said, I am a connoisseur. I have seen some truly horrible films. Sasquatch Mountain has some of the most bizarre directing decisions I think I've ever seen. The Beast of Yucca Flats has some very memorably bad lines (Flag on the moon, anyone?). The plot of The Wild World of Batwoman hinges on an "atomic powered hearing aid." The soundtrack of Dead Men Walking is composed entirely of thrash metal. The film quality of Oasis of the Zombies is slightly outdone by the Zapruder footage. And who can forget the set design of Plan 9 From Outer Space? And all these movies are great. I mean, they're bad, really bad, but they're hilarious. So I was surprised when I found that I was actually having trouble enjoying The Apocalypse. Could there be some films so bad that they transcend good-badness? Now don't get me wrong - there are elements of this film that are hilarious, and scenes that had me laughing out loud. The first five minutes of the film, in which some stereotypical college-aged kids sit around a campfire overacting their incredibly generic lines before getting killed by a bunch of extremely well-aimed meteors is one such scene. The first death of the film involves a guy getting hit in the chest by a meteor while taking a leak in the dark woods. One of the kids at the campfire then startles and says "What was that?" to the skeptical dismissals of her friends. If one had replaced the meteor with bigfoot, the dialogue and tone could have been identical. Classic.I laughed at another ridiculous scene involving a crazy gun-toting banker who gibbers madly while waving his gun around and repeatedly growling "Liars!" The intended intensity and suspense of this scene fall flat when the other actors in the scene fail to appear more than mildly surprised at the banker's actions, and the poor sound quality reduces anything he says to random croaking and weeping noises, so his terrible performance as a regular man who's lost hope ends up looking like an excellent performance as a strung out crackhead.A series of scenes takes place in a pile of rubble after a tornado. As the characters try to make poignant comments about the hopelessness of their situation, and talk about how alone they are, and how desolate and quiet everything is, one can clearly hear several airplanes and helicopters passing overhead, as the scenes are clearly filmed near a large population center, and possibly an airport. This is especially comical during one scene at this location when a character waves to a single passing helicopter whose audio has unnecessarily been edited into the soundtrack.Apart from these few scenes, and the humorously inappropriate musical score (which ranges from Dvorak to 16-bit midi - all royalty-free, as indicated in the credits) there's actually not much to enjoy in this movie. It's not that the dialogue isn't bad. It's not that the acting isn't laughable. It's not that the direction doesn't leave you scratching your head at times. It's not that the special effects aren't as obvious as a gunshot wound. It's that all of this is there, and then some. This movie is actually TOO bad for its own good.The problem stems from the fact that much of the badness of this film isn't derived from these usual sources. They're all there, to be sure. But this movie is boring. Scenes stretch on for uncomfortable periods, while the actors struggle to hold some distressed facial expression, saying nothing. Characters look out of car windows at things we never get to see, still saying nothing. When there is dialogue, it's terrible - but somehow, unnecessary. Many conversations are superfluous rehashes of previous conversations, which, in movie time, took place a few days ago, but in real time, we sat through just five minutes earlier.There are some great bad movies out there. The conventional reasons that movies are usually bad make them wonders of comedy. The badness can be forgiven. But The Apcoalypse commits one sin of badness that is inexcusable - it's just not interesting.

PhilipGHarris Apocalypse is defined by the dictionary as both: an event involving great and widespread destruction and/or the final destruction of the world, as described in the biblical book of Revelation.This event did almost cause great and widespread destruction of my brain. But lets continue anyway.Firstly we meet a group of unrelated friends who seem to be the first victims of said biblical event. One dies during an "unluckiest pee ever" type event and that already, having brought tears to my eyes (laughter) is one reason to watch the first few minutes of this movie.Another dies soon after having failed to notice the large magma rock in front of him (clumsy).The titles roll and we meet Jason and his friend (I think he must have been Travis). They're on call out - although there job remains unclear until later, Park Rangers apparently. They've been called out to a large asteroid that seems to have impacted into someones house - I assume Park Rangers job descriptions have increased somewhat.They fail to be able to resolve this problem and drive off into a shower of meteors.Jason has a number of scenes where he looks in amazement (wooden amazement) at things the viewer can't see. Initially you can forgive this as a budget saving device. After the third time...The film flits between Jason and Ashley (his estranged wife who throughout the film reminds him to pray, re-take God into his life, although it appears Jason didn't want him there in the first place and nagging him to find their daughter). And Lindsay and Andrew who are staying put until mum comes for Lindsay as mum managed to get a clear line through even though a major center was destroyed by an asteroid.The apocalypse seems to mean that people can wheel their bikes into churches, landslides occur on what seems to be flat ground, People disappear (although I'm not sure about Travis and the dog... I think he just stole it), bankers to do horrendously bad hijacks lying in the middle of the road when all other people are disappearing so he should be able to find a car somewhere and estranged wives to say, "I love you", when her and her husband come across a number of abandoned cars.After a twister rips Lindsay's house apart and Andrew (it's only a flesh wound) lies around feeling sorry for himself it is clear that this was filmed by a busy airport as you can constantly hear sounds of planes landing taking off and generally buzzing around. (Sound engineer anyone?) And then suddenly the special effects department pull a stunner (for them) out of the bag as Jason and Ashley's plane is caught in a meteor storm.They survive the crash (Hmmmm!) only for Ashley to be killed by a broken cross - which is possibly the second most amusing part of the film.I won't spoil the ending but must add that although the music is well done at the beginning it is obvious that they ran out of ideas and the same tune seems to drag through the whole film until at the end they finally use something different. Unfortunately this tune was made famous in my country to advertise bread and so the impact is not quite the same.I've only rated this with 2 stars as it certainly gave me some laughs. Although that, I cannot believe, was the intention.

tonyhag What started out to be an interesting science fiction disaster movie with people being hit my small rocks from space soon turned into one of the worst movies I have ever seen.Time and time again the cast members dialogue consisted of talk about religion to such an extent I had to double check the credits to see if it was made by a religious film company rather then Asylum.Also the music in the movie was so loud that it constantly drowned the dialogue and made it impossible to figure out what the actors/actresses where saying, the worst part was when the guy held them at gunpoint.For sure this is a movie that could have been better if the dialogue had been more sensible rather then going off on a tangent of religious sermons.