Impact on the Syfy Channel is a four-hour event, a TV mini-series about the disaster of an asteroid headed to Earth, looming doom over our heads. The story is written by Michael Vickerman (The Haunting of Sorority Row, The Lost Future*) and directed by Mike Rohl (Supernatural, Eureka, Smallville). That’s a fairly decent creative team and for a Syfy Channel movie, has great detailed and plausible story development.
But.
Impact is heavily, I said HEAVILY character driven. I say that because in the first 90 minutes we’ve had one itty-bitty hand-sized meteor hit the ground, a weird, unexplained electrical discharge around the world and funny events where at times things & people start floating into the air. Other than that those scenes that account for about five minutes of film, we’ve been treated to the characters learning their soon-to-be wives are pregnant, a scientist whose wife is dead and has a grumpy father-in-law, and various other in-depth details about all the characters involved. Every now and then we see a briefing from the scientists to the U.S. military.
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