I would rather watch mold grow in a petri dish.

Physics and common sense aside, this movie just plain sucks. It is boring, mediocre on all levels, and hard to follow. I think it's hard to follow because it's just so boring. First there's a "mega fault" opening up over half the country (although not big enough to do anything cool like swallow a whole city),and eventually they freeze it. Then suddenly it bubbles with lava. Whatever.

The actors are L-A-M-E. The CGI is even worse. There's one scene near the beginning where a car falls into a sinkhole, but you see the concrete through the car. It's just dreadful.

And it may not be common knowledge, but you can't just flip a switch and turn on a helicopter like you do a car. They do that a lot in this movie... just turn it on and take off in a matter of seconds. Not possible in real life.

I could go on and on about the errors of this movie, but it's SyFy, so why bother? As usual, don't waste your time. There is no cool monster, no comic relief, no special effects worth seeing, nada. There is absolutely nothing redeemable about this flick whatsoever. There is not one moment where you say, "Yeah, the movie sucks overall, but that one part is awesome!" Nothing. Not even "so bad it's good"... it's just ALL BAD.

The concept did seem good on paper, but potential is ruined by terrible execution. The film is badly made, with static camera shots and some of the laziest both in how they look and how they are used effects I've seen in a film recently.

The dialogue just increasingly gets inane, the story is repetitive and dull with a predictable ending and the characters throughout act like idiots. The direction furthermore is a mess and the pace is uneven and meandering.

The acting despite how talented the cast are is not good at all. Brittany Murphy, she was beautiful, she was talented, sadly she has a poor character and script to work from, so at the end of the day it's all wasted talent.

Overall, terrible. SyFy have done worse, but that's not really a consolation considering how poor an effort this is. 1/10 Bethany Cox

MEGAFAULT, a TV movie disaster flick, opens with the words that no viewer should ever witness: A SyFy Channel presentation of an Asylum movie. Yep, two of the dumbest purveyors of no-budget trash have teamed up to make an earthquake-themed disaster flick, so what could go wrong?

The answer is everything and nothing. This is very much par for the course for such a movie: it's a film without much plot or indeed characterisation, one which gets by instead on a series of repetitive CGI effects of faults and cracks tearing through the ground, swallowing buildings and vehicles. When this happens for the umpteenth time you know that the writers were really struggling to think up anything fresh with this one.

Cast-wise, we get Brittany Murphy as the intrepid seismologist heroine; this was one of her last roles before her untimely death and she's not looking at all healthy. Speaking of death, we're treated to another actor with a dead career: Eriq La Salle, formerly of TV's E.R., now treading water in a B-movie swamp. Bruce Davison appears too, contributing yet another adviser type part; I guess he never gets tired of showing up in such productions.

The CGI effects are a little better than those found in some other Asylum productions, but they're hardly the stuff of greatness either. Not much really happens during the storyline, and there's never much of a sense of danger, just characters reacting to the latest CGI event taking place in front of them. It's not much fun.