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Meltdown: Days of Destruction

  • TV Movie
  • 2006
  • R
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
3.9/10
996
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Casper Van Dien in Meltdown: Days of Destruction (2006)
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Despite scientist Nathan's warnings, his boss continues an experiment meant as publicity for his satellite firm: exploding an asteroid. Instead it splits, and the major piece, the size of Ic... Read allDespite scientist Nathan's warnings, his boss continues an experiment meant as publicity for his satellite firm: exploding an asteroid. Instead it splits, and the major piece, the size of Iceland, changes course to earth. It is deflected but so close that it shift our course clos... Read allDespite scientist Nathan's warnings, his boss continues an experiment meant as publicity for his satellite firm: exploding an asteroid. Instead it splits, and the major piece, the size of Iceland, changes course to earth. It is deflected but so close that it shift our course closer to the sun, causing rapid extreme heating, hopefully only mid-term. Nathan warns his si... Read all

  • Director
    • J.P. Howell
  • Writer
    • Rick Drew
  • Stars
    • Casper Van Dien
    • Vincent Gale
    • Stefanie von Pfetten
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  • IMDb RATING
    3.9/10
    996
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • J.P. Howell
    • Writer
      • Rick Drew
    • Stars
      • Casper Van Dien
      • Vincent Gale
      • Stefanie von Pfetten
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    Casper Van Dien
    Casper Van Dien
    • Tom
    Vincent Gale
    Vincent Gale
    • Nathan
    Stefanie von Pfetten
    Stefanie von Pfetten
    • Carly
    Venus Terzo
    Venus Terzo
    • Bonnie
    Amanda Crew
    Amanda Crew
    • Kimberly
    Ryan McDonell
    Ryan McDonell
    • C.J.
    Greg Anderson
    Greg Anderson
    • Mick
    Bill Dow
    Bill Dow
    • Olsen
    Patricia Drake
    • ER Nurse
    Philip Granger
    Philip Granger
    • Frank
    David Quinlan
    David Quinlan
    • Gary
    Dee Jay Jackson
    • Fire Chief
    Donovan Cerminara
    Donovan Cerminara
    • Goon Leader
    Bruno Verdoni
    Bruno Verdoni
    • Garner
    Derek Hamilton
    Derek Hamilton
    • Rat Leader
    Keith Martin Gordey
    Keith Martin Gordey
    • Government Official
    Floyd Faircrest
    • Santos
    Chad Sayn
    • Goon #2
    • Director
      • J.P. Howell
    • Writer
      • Rick Drew
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    5TheLittleSongbird

    Not a complete meltdown of a movie...

    Although the idea was interesting, I was expecting it to be worse considering it was low budget. In my opinion, Meltdown: Days of Destruction is neither bad or good as an overall film, though it has assets that fall in both categories. What I did like about the film was that the acting was surprisingly better than average. Amanda Crew is beautiful and not too bland, Vincent Gale and Stefanie Von Pfetton are good and Casper Van Dien does his best to make his performance more than just a good-looking guy with non-existent acting skills which is something that has been plaguing a number of low-budget films I've seen in recent memory. I did also like the nice settings and the editing wasn't too choppy, while the music is not too over-bearing. The concept is also an interesting one. However, there are things that don't work. The most exciting Meltdown: Days of Destruction gets is towards the end, but around the middle it is rather sluggish and generic with predictable storytelling, very unlikely science and cheesy dialogue. The effects are minimal and while I have seen cheaper ones, in all honesty the effects here are not great in look(especially the meteor) and don't generate any sorts of thrills. The characters I didn't really engage with, some of them don't have much to do and the types of characters involved are reminiscent of the obligatory clichés you'd find in a SyFy original disaster movie. All in all, not a complete meltdown but not particularly much to it either. 5/10 Bethany Cox
    1messinan-1

    One of the worst movies ever made !!!!

    I would rather have someone cut out my eyeballs with a razor blade than have to watch this movie again. I watched it from start to end thinking it couldn't get any worse....BUT IT DID. The writers and producers should be slapped for putting this kind of crap on television. The actors are ALL terrible. Get out of Hollywood you fools and go work at McDonalds sweeping the floors and emptying the trash. Anyone that thinks this movie is even remotely decent should be hung. They are an embarrassment to humanity. To think we have soldiers putting their lives on the line for anyone that produces this kind of inane garbage. Makes me embarrassed to say I'm an American.
    3Leofwine_draca

    Heatwave on a budget

    MELTDOWN: DAYS OF DESTRUCTION, a would-be TV disaster movie from 2006, is only worth watching if you're wondering what happened to Casper Van Dien's career after STARSHIP TROOPERS (answer: not a lot). It's essentially a heatwave-based thriller, featuring some science guff about an asteroid passing close to the Earth causing our planet to move closer to the sun.

    What it all boils down to is a kind of road/post-apocalypse movie, as Van Dien and his colleagues/friends and family are forced to try to get to a place of safety while contending with intense temperatures. Strangely, despite the supposed heatwave, most of the characters continue to wear long shirts and/or jackets - at least the cult '60s flick NIGHT OF THE BIG HEAT made the effort of making the protagonists look all sweaty and dishevelled!

    Given the poverty-row budget, most of the threat comes from various looters and bad guys, and it's all done in a gung ho fashion and fairly well paced. But the writing is predictable and the characters non-existent, with none of the cast making much of an impact. About the only scene in the film I enjoyed was the bit with the exploding cars, which was novel; the rest is merely humdrum.
    3bkoganbing

    Law And Order Melts Down

    Poor Casper Van Dien, his career has slid a long way from Tarzan and Starship Troopers.

    In Meltdown he's a policeman who just happens to be dating TV reporter Stefanie Von Pfeten and her brother is a scientist who's trying to deal with a speeding comment headed for Earth. But in the runaway comet business, even a near miss causes some real problems as the Earth's orbit goes out of kilter.

    From the survival of the Earth we go to the survival of Van Dien and his immediate family. His daughter's gangbanger boyfriend, Ryan McDonell actually proves to be of some use especially when he suspects a guy he knows as a crooked cop might mean the Van Dien group a lot of harm.

    My only question here is, why didn't they have Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton and the rest of that crew to deal with the nasty comet?

    Pass this one up folks.
    1randy_kay

    Vancouver outdoes itself...

    Once again, Vancouver -- The king of schlocky Canadian 'made for TV' movies has done it again. Yet another movie made as a tax write-off for wealthy or semi-wealthy investors. Gotta hide that money somewhere, eh fat cats? As for the movie;

    It was made to be bad and to lose money (for tax loss purposes) and on that level I applaud it. It's certainly a terrible movie and I have to hand it to the producers -- they accomplished everything they set out to make; a terrible money-losing movie. Bravo! Well done!

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    The basic PSTC tax credit is 33% of qualified BC labour expenditures incurred after February 28, 2010.

    The REGIONAL tax credit is 6% of qualified BC labour expenditures of the corporation pro-rated by the number of days of principal photography in BC outside of the designated Vancouver area to the total days of principal photography in BC.

    The new DISTANT Location tax credit is 6% and is added to the regional tax credit for principal photography done outside of the Lower Mainland Region, north of Whistler and east of Hope, excluding the Capital Regional District.

    DIGITAL ANIMATION or VISUAL EFFECTS tax credit is 17.5% of BC labour expenditures directly attributable to digital animation or visual effects activities.

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    • Trivia
      Not to be confused with an old John Carpenter project called "Meltdown", a 1977-1978 adaptation of the "Prometheus Cris" novel, later set to star Dolph Lundgren and to be directed by John Dahl in 1994. But even though Casper Van Dien had also been attached to it in 1997-1998, that project had nothing to do with "Meltdown: Days of Destruction". Writer/director of Rick Drew developed the story from scratch and claims he had never heard of the Carpenter script and received sole credit from the WGA.
    • Goofs
      The group takes a 'refrigerated truck' in order to have cool air for the engine and gas tank, but when they are driving away it is obvious that the drivers compartment is completely open to the rest of the interior - this would be a problem during normal use as it would freeze the driver.
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      References Clueless (1995)

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    • Release date
      • June 2, 2007 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • Canada
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Amenaza sobre la Tierra
    • Filming locations
      • West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Front Street Pictures
      • PorchLight Entertainment
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      • $2,000,000 (estimated)
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      1 hour 30 minutes
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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