Sean Connery leads a team of asteroid-battling
astronomers in Meteor, one of the last and most
unusual examples of the disaster movie craze of
the 1970s. In this one, a killer asteroid named
Orpheus threatens to collide with the Earth, and
Connery must come up with a plan to stop it. Cold
war politics date the picture a bit, but they also
add some weight to the impending doom facing
humanity. Like any good disaster flick, it's
populated by an all-star cast, including Karl
Malden, Martin Landau, Natalie Wood, Richard
Dysart, Henry Fonda, and Trevor Howard. Brian
Keith plays Connery's opposite number in the
U.S.S.R. While the pacing and special effects are
weak compared to similar celestial menaces
depicted in Armageddon and Deep Impact, Meteor
displays all the benefits of its more powerful
cast not to mention Hank Fonda as President.
Format size: | Widescreen |
Languages: | English |
Runtime: | 107 min. |
Number of discs: | 1 |
Subtitles: | Spanish, French |