“METEOR”, A MADE FOR TV MOVIE ON NBC.

What is it with the networks? Did anyone watch this insane movie? I enjoy a disaster movie as much as anyone. I enjoy the suspense, the special effects, and usually the acting. But this?! I just wasted 2 hours watching the worst movie I’ve seen since the last one! And, it’s to be continued next Sunday night. Will I watch it? Who knows? I do have some short term memory so I may forget how dumb this whole thing was and how much time I wasted watching it.

The story line: A meteor and asteroid collided in space, causing the meteor to change it’s trajectory and head towards earth on a collision course that would destroy the earth. In the meantime, the fired scientist, who had the coordinates, and his assistant were heading back to the states from Mexico, when he was hit and killed by a hit and run driver. (BTW, they were the only ones who know exactly where this meteor is going to hit). She hitched a ride from a Mexican truck driver in hopes of crossing the border. He decided not to drive her to LA, so she stopped at a Tijuana police station where she comes upon a murdered policia, was in the process of almost being raped, ended up killing the rapist/murderer and his buddy, stole a police car and drove to the border where she was stopped, taken in to custody and she finally talked the officer into letting her call the center tracing and trying to shoot down the meteor. Then the VP (that would be the VP of the US) calls and says they need her at the center so would the officer please drive her there asap. While they were on the road, in a tunnel, an asteroid hits in front of them on the other side of the tunnel and hits a tanker truck, and the driver of the truck comes into the tunnel right at them. The officer backs up with screeching tires, gets out and spins around before being hit and knocked over an embankment and rolls. As yet, don’t know what happened to the officer and the assistant scientist. She had just discovered that the meteor the first missile destroyed after her first coordinates were given was the smallest of two giant meteors and the bigger one was on the way. (The collision divided the meteor in two. Something we didn’t know before this).

In the meantime, a fugitive was after a cop’s daughter to kill her in revenge for the loss of his family. He grabs a ride with a “fluzzy”, to get to the college where the cop’s daughter goes to school, eventually kills the “fluzzy”, takes her car and gets to the college. He tells the room mate he has to find the girl because her dad is his partner. He then kills a cop, takes his motorcycle and gets to the cabin where the girl is staying. (how she got there with 2 other girls is a whole other story). The dad gets there in time to see her held at gunpoint ready to be shot.

In the meantime, a rancher and his wife and son were in their ranch house when an asteroid hit in their field and almost destroyed their house and kill them all. But, they survived, and Michael (their 13 yr old son) went off to school and mom went to work at the hospital. She’s a doctor. An asteroid hit the bus Michael was on, turned it over, many children were killed – of course Michael was only injured – and they were taken to mom’s hospital where she, of course, saw her injured son while she was working, and she had to continue caring for the more seriously injured. Then, the hospital was hit by an asteroid and though the hospital was completely full, we don’t know what happened to all the patients. But she had to run back in to find Michael. All the while, dad was racing to the hospital in his slow truck, made it just in time to see the fire in the hospital and ran in to find his wife and son.

While all this was happening, the chief of police of this small town is trying to calm the panicked residents of the town while they are making a rush on the grocery store to stock up on supplies. The local bully in town is going to use his rifle to protect himself. The cop is trying to peacefully get everyone in to the fall out shelter and is confronted by the bully saying “no one pushes him around like that”. Cop talks him into putting his gun down and bully says “OK, what can I do to help?”

Now, aren’t we all so wrapped up in this story that we can’t afford to miss the next installment! If I watch this conclusion of the movie, somebody, please, put me out of my misery. Put a bag over my head!