meltdown opens on a scene of scientists preparing to conduct an important test on a missile system developed to deflect asteroids should they be on a collision course with earth. nathan (vincent gale) mentions some misgivings to his and but the test appears to be an unqualified success. then the asteroid breaks apart and and the largest piece is pushed into a direct collision path with earth. fortunately and the huge rock skips off of earth outer atmosphere and ricochets into space. unfortunately and the glancing blow is just enough to alter earth orbit and and the planet begins to spiral closer to the sun. while all of this is going on above their heads and los angeles cops tom (casper van dien) and mick (greg anderson) are on a stake out. theyre supposed to collect evidence against a suspected drug dealer and but the deal theyre watching quickly devolves into a shooting match. afterward and tom takes a few minutes to be interviewed by a local television reporter who also happens to be his girlfriend and carly (stefanie von pfetten). at a nearby hospital where mick is treated for a minor injury and tom has a brief chat with his ex girlfriend bonnie (venus terzo) and who is a nurse. he tells her he concerned about the fact that their 17 year old daughter kimberly (amanda crew) is dating a man named cj (ryan mcdonell). once tom explains to bonnie that he discovered cj has a criminal record and she a little worried herself. it not long and however and before everybody has something else to worry about. the temperature is rapidly rising all around the world. carly is one of the first non scientists to learn what really happening. nathan and who is her brother and calls her to say he may have a way that they can survive. carly calls tom while he and of course and promptly contacts bonnie. in relatively short order and the motley group is on the road. before they can reach their ultimate goal and however and they have got to make their way through bands of looters and deal with a catastrophic water shortage and and manage to travel in temperatures that are high enough to kill. casper van dien is a good looking guy and and i actually enjoyed him in starship troopers. that may be because he good in action scenes. it might also be because he do not talk much in that movie. in meltdown and he unfortunately given just enough lines in situations that are just dramatic enough to showcase his entirely average acting abilities. amanda crew is also okay and and ryan mcdonell isn not bad and either. vincent gale and stefanie von pfetten are also both reasonably good and but venus terzo is sadly on a par with van dien. what really makes or breaks a movie and though and is the story and the script. while the story here is okay and actually has some real potential and 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 might pull the earth back into its usual orbit over time. when the temperature in la hits 120 degrees and cars start blowing up. you know what even worse than the bad science. the bad continuity. okay and really hot. why are people in the movie not only wearing long sleeved shirts and but jackets and too. why are people mugging each other for bottled water instead of turning on the taps at home. why are the streets completely empty and but the freeways completely full. and why are the freeways full of unexploded. it almost superfluous to note that the sets and costumes and and production values were good and especially when that only forces me to say that the edits were not. so basically and you take a pretty good story idea and combine it with mostly mediocre acting and a terrible script and low end special effects and utterly irrational plot twists and and poor edits and and what do you have. a movie that even less than the sum of its inconsiderable parts. i am sorry to say that i can not recommend meltdown represent days of destruction to anyone. political notes represent there is mention here that congress finally loosened the purse strings enough to fund the tests that start the movie rolling. while the tests here were wholly irresponsible (targeting an asteroid with a nuke and not knowing the composition of the big rock is and in fact and well beyond irresponsible and approaching the insane) and the fact is that such scenarios are a very real danger to the planet. unfortunately and we have tracked nowhere near all of the near earth asteroids that could be worrisome in some orbit some day while and our ability to spot something on a collision course with us is limited at best. once we do discover were going to be hit and we quite literally have no system in place to deal with it. there are no nuclear tipped space missiles we can launch while the space shuttle is completely incapable of going beyond earth orbit and and if it were and we couldn not launch enough of them or launch them quickly enough for it to matter. i am not big on the government doing anything beyond its constitutional mandates and but i certainly think protecting the planet from destruction coming at us from outer space could be construed as defending the country and do not you. family suitability represent meltdown represent days of destruction is rated r for some violence. i frankly do not find the violence here anything beyond a fairly typical t rated video game. if your teens are keen on seeing meltdown and you can not talk them out of it and the r rating shouldn not dissuade you from letting them see it. it not and however and a good idea to leave the younger kids in the room with their elder siblings. while the shootings aren not too graphic in the main and some of the dead bodies are. 
meltdown opens on a scene of scientists preparing to conduct an important test on a missile system developed to deflect asteroids should they be on a collision course with earth. nathan (vincent gale) mentions some misgivings to his and but the test appears to be an unqualified success. then the asteroid breaks apart and and the largest piece is pushed into a direct collision path with earth. fortunately and the huge rock skips off of earth outer atmosphere and ricochets into space. unfortunately and the glancing blow is just enough to alter earth orbit and and the planet begins to spiral closer to the sun. while all of this is going on above their heads and los angeles cops tom (casper van dien) and mick (greg anderson) are on a stake out. theyre supposed to collect evidence against a suspected drug dealer and but the deal theyre watching quickly devolves into a shooting match. afterward and tom takes a few minutes to be interviewed by a local television reporter who also happens to be his girlfriend and carly (stefanie von pfetten). at a nearby hospital where mick is treated for a minor injury and tom has a brief chat with his ex girlfriend bonnie (venus terzo) and who is a nurse. he tells her he concerned about the fact that their 17 year old daughter kimberly (amanda crew) is dating a man named cj (ryan mcdonell). once tom explains to bonnie that he discovered cj has a criminal record and she a little worried herself. it not long and however and before everybody has something else to worry about. the temperature is rapidly rising all around the world. carly is one of the first non scientists to learn what really happening. nathan and who is her brother and calls her to say he may have a way that they can survive. carly calls tom while he and of course and promptly contacts bonnie. in relatively short order and the motley group is on the road. before they can reach their ultimate goal and however and they have got to make their way through bands of looters and deal with a catastrophic water shortage and and manage to travel in temperatures that are high enough to kill. casper van dien is a good looking guy and and i actually enjoyed him in starship troopers. that may be because he good in action scenes. it might also be because he do not talk much in that movie. in meltdown and he unfortunately given just enough lines in situations that are just dramatic enough to showcase his entirely average acting abilities. amanda crew is also okay and and ryan mcdonell isn not bad and either. vincent gale and stefanie von pfetten are also both reasonably good and but venus terzo is sadly on a par with van dien. what really makes or breaks a movie and though and is the story and the script. while the story here is okay and actually has some real potential and 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 might pull the earth back into its usual orbit over time. when the temperature in la hits 120 degrees and cars start blowing up. you know what even worse than the bad science. the bad continuity. okay and really hot. why are people in the movie not only wearing long sleeved shirts and but jackets and too. why are people mugging each other for bottled water instead of turning on the taps at home. why are the streets completely empty and but the freeways completely full. and why are the freeways full of unexploded. it almost superfluous to note that the sets and costumes and and production values were good and especially when that only forces me to say that the edits were not. so basically and you take a pretty good story idea and combine it with mostly mediocre acting and a terrible script and low end special effects and utterly irrational plot twists and and poor edits and and what do you have. a movie that even less than the sum of its inconsiderable parts. i am sorry to say that i can not recommend meltdown represent days of destruction to anyone. political notes represent there is mention here that congress finally loosened the purse strings enough to fund the tests that start the movie rolling. while the tests here were wholly irresponsible (targeting an asteroid with a nuke and not knowing the composition of the big rock is and in fact and well beyond irresponsible and approaching the insane) and the fact is that such scenarios are a very real danger to the planet. unfortunately and we have tracked nowhere near all of the near earth asteroids that could be worrisome in some orbit some day while and our ability to spot something on a collision course with us is limited at best. once we do discover were going to be hit and we quite literally have no system in place to deal with it. there are no nuclear tipped space missiles we can launch while the space shuttle is completely incapable of going beyond earth orbit and and if it were and we couldn not launch enough of them or launch them quickly enough for it to matter. i am not big on the government doing anything beyond its constitutional mandates and but i certainly think protecting the planet from destruction coming at us from outer space could be construed as defending the country and do not you. family suitability represent meltdown represent days of destruction is rated r for some violence. i frankly do not find the violence here anything beyond a fairly typical t rated video game. if your teens are keen on seeing meltdown and you can not talk them out of it and the r rating shouldn not dissuade you from letting them see it. it not and however and a good idea to leave the younger kids in the room with their elder siblings. while the shootings aren not too graphic in the main and some of the dead bodies are. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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