We start with the ususal old pre-big disaster is revealed scene that exists in most of these grade-z disaster movies. Here we have two seperate guys discover a comet heading twoard Earth. One is a high school student, and the other is a famed astronomer. Of course one doesn't realize where the comet is heading and the other dies in a car accident on the way to go inform the world. Cut to one year in the future, where a reporter is covering a juicy story about an ex-congresman who is now packing up and leaving the country, leaving civilzation really. She goes to ask why, and he won't tell her. When she persists, he simply dismises her with "I know you're just a reporter, but you used to be a human being, right?". So, naturally, she doesn't get the story then. But she does get quite a scopp when she's pulled over by what we belive to be secret agents and taken to a remote loction where whe meets, of all people, the president. She is informed of the comet coming to Earth, dubbed E.L.E. for Extenction Level Event. We then go to some more scenes with a world-weary astronaut and his crew of youngins who are going out into space to plant a nuclear weapon into the thing and blow it to high hell. The only thing we get out of this are cool special effects, and a bad excuse to have Robert Duvall read a bedtime story to Ron Elard. We also get to see the young man who found the comet (yep, he lived). He is, of course, now famous for having discovered an end for all humanity. The only thing this part is good for is providing one of the movie's few funy lines: "Hey Leo, now that you're famous you'll be getting more sex" "really?". I'll admit it, I was midly amused.

But still, this movie ranks among the year's worst simply because it tries too hard. It spends too much time thinking it's a touching, yet thrilling film to ever realize that's it full of itself. The only way this grade-z fare is gonna earn money is if the 14 years girls decide to skip their 15th viewing of Titanic (which was a really good disaster movie, lest we forget) and go check this one out. But I don't advise it.