2006 · tv-movie · action · sci-fi
Earthstorm
Directed by Terry Cunningham1h 30m2006
A massive asteroid impact on the moon begins causing storms on earth due to the sudden changes in ocean tides. But when further examination is conducted it's discovered that the moon's structure is now entirely unstable -- threatening all life on earth. With time running out, a team of scientists turn to one man, demolitions expert John Redding, in effort to find a solution and secure the moon.
Our read: Earthstorm (2006) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive tv-movie · action · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured tv-movie / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- inventive
- cold
- epic-stakes
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