I don't know why the ratings for this movie are so low. It's honestly not a bad TV disaster movie. The graphics are actually quite good for a TV movie, despite other reviews. I mean what are you expecting? Big budget graphics? No way. But this movie does well. I've seen every disaster movie ever made and the CGI in this movie is far superior to most other TV disaster movies. Some were just laughable, but not here. The plot is a tad recycled, but a bit new. The acting was also good. I've seen bad acting, and this movie doesn't come close to bad acting. Great? No. Bad? No. Give it a try acting and decide for yourself. Anyone who likes disaster movies should appreciate it. Though I would have liked to see a bit more disaster scenes, I'm quite pleased with this movie.

Initially when you sit down to watch a natural disaster movie, chances are quite high that you will be in for something generic, low budget and boring. But still, there is something oddly bizarre about this type of movies that is alluring.

Meteor Assault (aka "Asteroid: Final Impact" as it was named on the DVD I found) turned out to be yet another generic and less than thrilling natural disaster movies that are readily available. So you know what you will get here.

The special effects in the movie, while they were present, were just anything but impressive. Did they serve their purpose? Certainly. But they were just not overly interesting, impressive or captivating. And it turned out to be actually just another mass-produced disaster movie not unlike the majority in the genre.

This movie follows the stereotypical blueprint of how to make a disaster movie. Some huge natural disaster threatens to put mankind to extinction, and a small group of people take action and manages to save the entire world at the very last moment. Yep, it is exactly that formula that "Meteor Assault" follows.

As for the acting in the movie, well let's just leave it at that you know exactly what you are getting, and the standards for these movies is also what you can expect.

I do enjoy disaster movies, just a shame that most of the movies made in the genre are less than mediocre. and "Meteor Assault" turned out to be yet just another of those movies. So there is nothing interesting to be had here.

The acting was pretty good. The plot was... spotty... at best. Too bad they completely ignored reality. The premise COULD have generated a decent movie.

Meteor shower - a football-size meteorite lands in the lead actor's back yard. Purely by chance. It shows an angle of impact that would have gone through his house... and the meteorite only buries itself about 6 inches into the ground? And it's cool enough to handle within a couple minutes? 17,000 mph - and only 6 inches penetration!?

Throughout the movie, people hear meteorites coming - despite the fact that they're moving at 20x the speed of sound.

There just happens to be a rocket sitting around, fueled up and ready to go to save the world. At a college science fair.

The "planet killer" meteor is inbound at "30,000 mph", but takes 10 minutes or more to traverse Earth's ~100 mile atmosphere. (It should take less than 20 seconds).

The "planet killer" meteor is destroyed by 3 pounds of hydrochloric acid.

Totally ignored is the fact that even if this were possible, you STILL have the mass of a "planet killer" moving at 30,000 - regardless of any chemical reactions.

The "genius" son mumbles a few words like "pi" and magically controls the rocket to intercept the incoming meteor... doing what takes NASA months to do in a matter of seconds.

Despite meteorites landing all over the world, the FBI agents are bent on capturing the one guy who can "save the world". It's as if they are deaf, blind and stupid.

Why do the FBI agents want to capture the hero? His satellite was used to "spy"! Wait. Aren't half the satellites in orbit used to spy? But for some reason, he's a "traitor" for warning people about meteorites?

The usual computer baloney is involved - including "decrypting" a password just in time to save the world.

Most intriguing part of the movie was the idea of a "dark" asteroid that couldn't be detected interfering with other asteroids.

The "bad" guy is totally unbelievable - he gets a prediction of a series of cities that will be hit by meteorites, and they are, in order and in the predicted magnitude of impacts - but he remains unswayed and determined to punish the hero.

There are dozens of other plot flaws - but I have to give it to the cast for decent (if not exception) acting in a movie that had a promising plot destroyed by utter indifference to everything known about science.