A research program abandoned by the best solar physicist when the Pentagon wanted to put it to military use has been resumed by his former deputy. Her incompetence and the Defense secretary's haste cause it to be tested too soon, stirring unprecedented solar flares, ultimately a plasma causing disasters on all continents. Only the genius can think of a way out, only to be victimized by the secretary, who needs to cover up. Even when it turns out the earth's core has stopped spinning, spelling an unimaginable seismic apocalypse, the genius must still evade special forces to stay free and save the world again.
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I have seen some movies where you need to have an open mind and also ignore certain elements of a story if it stretches truths or the imagination, indeed I thrive on Sci-Fi of all kinds. Then this rather long and cumbersome TV effort comes along, dragging poor old Einstein by the hair and kicking his theories to death with gigantic boots. I don't know how this script got green lit by whomever (I couldn't find which Canadian company threw cash at it) but it appears to have been dreamt up by a rather small child with a vivid imagination and ten whole minutes to kill so knocked this out. It's that silly..
There is a machine that can hit the Sun with some sort of beam (I'm so annoyed I can't quite remember how it worked now) which encourages Solar Flares to flare out and power a Satellite which then redirects the beam to zap Earth and stop Global Warming. The big bad Military comes along and wants it used as a WMD (I bet you never saw that coming) but as it's tested it all goes wrong and Earth's inhabitants are now doomed.
That in itself is utterly ridiculous in every single way. Light takes approx eight minutes to get from the Sun, all the way to Earth but this lot can do that and a whole lot more in a couple of seconds. I'm not going to bore you with any more details but this film was reasonably well acted, the production wasn't the best i've seen but still, not too bad. But to stretch this total nonsense over three hours was just taking it too far and the worst of it is, I sat there seething while watching. Not one of the greatest Sci-Fi movies ever made but if you don't mind sloppy science, and have a penchant for two part TV movies then you might just enjoy it. Sadly, I prefer a semblance of research being done before I can swallow this type of story.
