Boy This Takes Me Back !
Good little film Meteor is, and it's one of the one's I saw with Connery in the lead not too long after giving up on Bond for good.

Meteor may never go down in history as the best movie of it's type, but I think for those that even remember it, it deserves a place as the first film of it's kind. Remember this was long before "Armaggedon" "Deep Impact" and all those knockoffs you see on the Sci Fi Channel such as Asteroid and the like.

Indeed I believe Meteor was the first...and best of the "giant rock hurtling to Earth at blazing speed is going to cause our doom" movies. Yeah Armaggedon had all the high priced special effects and high priced cast, same goes for Deep Impact, but I sincerely believe they never did it better than Meteor did. You can say Armaggedon, Deep Impact and Sci Fi's Asteriod are all variations on a theme, a theme that originally began with Meteor, so in that respect it was the first of this type of movie where the main theme is a very common one today in Sci Fi and action movies.

You can say the others are better produced, acted, you like the stars better, whatever. Nothing in my opinion did the subject justice as the film Meteor did.

Oh, what possessed you? All of you?
Meteor (Ronald Neame, 1979)

Oh, Ronald Neame. Three of your movies appear on all-time-thousand-best lists in various places (Peter Traver's guide and Yamann's weblog both list The Poseidon Adventure, Travers and the Guardian's weblog both list The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and both the New York Times and Halliwell's guides elect Tunes of Glory); how did you go from such great heights to, well, this? Though I have to say that any movie upon which a pinball game was based is automatically tops in my book, there's just no getting around it: Meteor is a bad, bad movie, all the worse because Neame and uberschlock producer Sam Arkoff managed to line up such an incredible wealth of talent for this film and then proceeded to waste it all as quickly as possible.

The plot: a comet entered the asteroid belt and collided with Orpheus, the largest body there. A five-mile-wide segment of Orpheus is headed straight for Earth, and the Americans (led by Sean Connery) and the Russians (led by the decidedly non-Russian Brian Keith) have to team up in order to stop the Earth from being destroyed.

Connery and Keith are just the tip of the iceberg. Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Martin Landau, Richard Dysart, Henry Fonda, Bibi Besch, and Sybil Danning, among many, many others, signed on for roles of varying importance in this turkey. Everyone here should be jailed for overacting, and Natalie Wood should get extra time added for such a fabulous Russian accent. The special effects are laughable (and to be fair, the special effects were laughable in 1979, as well). Set design is cruelly cheap, and the titles are straight out of TV-movie-dom. The soundtrack must be heard to be believed. The script is rife with plot holes and places where it's obvious the writers did a rush job of patching the ones they found. For that matter, I can't think of anything, save the cast, to recommend this film at all. *

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i enjoy meteor it was very good quality movie & will mostly liked purchased more of this kind of movie in the further. thank you celia

Before "Armagedon" and "Deep Impact"...
...was METEOR, if you like this kind of movies, don`t think about it, just purchase it.

Why don't you stick a broom up my rear so I can sweep the carpet on my way out!
Ok so the former James Bond doesn't say rear but it's a great one liner by the great Sean Connery. Meteor is lead by an allstar cast including Sean Connery (James Bond movies, Brian Keith (Hooper), and Martin Landau (Field of Dreams).
The movie is about a meteor called Morpheus on a collision course towards earth. In the times of the Soviet Union and the Cold War you can see the icy reception Major General Adlon (played by Martin Landau) gives Dr. Dubov (Keith). Brian Keith plays Connery's (Dr. Bradley) Soviet conterpart in which they devise a plan to change the direction of missles that are docked out in space. Keith's interpreter is played by Natalie Wood (Brainstorm) who is constantly being hit on by Sean Connery. While General Adlon wants the Soviets to leave, Dr. Bradley and Harry Sherwood (Karl malden) try to calm him down. The main problem is getting the Soviet Premier to acknowledge Peter the Great and join the United States in destroying the meteor. And of course the Meteor! Will Hank Fonda cause a diplomatic nightmare when he acknowledges Hercules in which General Adlon refuses to give Dr. Bradley control of? Now the Americans call their missles in space Hercules and the Soviets call theirs Peter the Great. The American President played by Hank Fonda must find a way to get the Soviets involved using their missles from Peter the Great because the firepower of Hercules can't do it alone. Throughout the movie, disasters strike which are preludes to the gigantic Morpheus. Will General Adlon ever calm down? Will Dr. Bradlet and Dr. Dubov save mankind? Will Morpheus strike earth?
This was a great movie. Critics panned this movie as others say it's outdated and no match for Armegeddon. Yes the special effects are way outdated but was a masterpiece in its time. It's a great disaster flick and is a nice addition to those who like Deep Impact, Armageddon, and other disaster flicks. It's certainly better than Asteriod which I just watched on the Sci-fi channel. Yes Asteriod has better special effects and is a little less than 20 years younger than Meteor but Meteor has an allstar cast, great acting that includes an alchemist for a president, Sean Connery's woo-wooing skills, Martin Landau playing a hot-headed Major General, and Brain Keith's portrayal of a Soviet scientist. All of this equals a great classic disaster flick.