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Meteor

1979, Sci-fi, 1h 47m

20 Reviews 500+ Ratings

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Meteor is a flimsy flick with too much boring dialogue and not enough destruction. At least the pinball game is decent. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

In this disaster movie, Americans and Soviets must put aside their differences to save civilization from a huge meteor bearing down on the planet. Paul Bradley (Sean Connery) enlists the expertise of fellow scientist Alexei Dubov (Brian Keith), who is joined by his beautiful assistant, Tatiana Donskaya (Natalie Wood). Although Paul and Tatiana are attracted to each other, they wisely focus on taking out the meteor, which may still cause massive destruction even if it is partially damaged.

Rating:

PG
Genre:

Sci-fi
Original Language:

English
Director:

Ronald Neame
Producer:

Arnold Orgolin, Theodore Parvin
Writer:

Stanley Mann, Edmund H. North
Release Date (Theaters):

Oct 19, 1979 original
Release Date (Streaming):

Oct 31, 2014
Runtime:

1h 47m
Distributor:

American International Pictures

Cast & Crew

Sean Connery
Paul Bradley

Natalie Wood
Tatiana Donskaya

Karl Malden
Harry Sherwood

Brian Keith
Dr. Dubov

Martin Landau
General Adlon

Trevor Howard
Sir Michael Hughes

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News & Interviews for Meteor

Sean Connery Earns AFI’s Highest Honor

Sean Connery Earns AFI’s Highest Honor

Critic Reviews for Meteor

All Critics (20) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (19)

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Audience Reviews for Meteor

Sep 06, 2010

One of the last disaster movies of the 70s. It has some intense moments, but for the most part it's boring and the story is kinda silly too. Still, it's entertaining.

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Apr 11, 2009

Junk with a good cast trying to breath some life into a tired script.

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Mar 04, 2009

I had never heard of this movie before, it showed up as a suggestion when I looked up Dante's Peak. Godzilla is to Cloverfield as Meteor is to Armageddon. It's 1979 and the special effects are cutting edge at the time. They used scale models against space backdrops and really crude overlays and it looks very crude now but then I'm sure it was amazing. Sean Connery is a scientist for NASA and designed a weapon called Hercules to protect against possible catastrophes like this. The government decides to use it "illegally" to guard against nuclear attack from Russia. When a huge piece of asteroid is sent hurdling toward Earth the government calls on Connery to help them protect Earth, with an unlikely ally, to save the human race.

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Apr 16, 2008

Great late seventies dramatic monster of a movie

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