Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Leofwine_draca 2012: SUPERNOVA is another mindless disaster flick from The Asylum. I'm always mildly amused that this studio's films have big plots which the primitive CGI effects have no ability to do justice to, rendering them very silly looking and useless. This one has Brian Krause as the usual crusading scientist who must figure out a way to prevent Earth being destroyed by an interstellar shockwave. Along the way he tangles with a doomsday cult and some really, really bad FX. There are few redeeming qualities here; the whole thing's a boring mess of a movie.

Guy Lanoue Sometime in the 1970s, I think with Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, people discovered really, really bad movies could be fun. Maybe it was with camp in the 1960s, with the televised Batman. College kids would hold bad movie nights on campus. Lord knows there were so many bad movies available from Hammer Films and American International that it could be fun, but maybe it was the Special Movie Enhancers that people smoked at the time. Whatever. Supernova is not in that category. It is not inadvertently bad, as in people trying to make a good or at least passable movie with a high school film project budget. Supernova is just bad: as if people hired the worst actors, the worst scriptwriters, the worst set designers and said, okay, now make a good movie. This is just cheesy from the get go. There's no science. Obviously, people have no idea what a supernova is. There's no plausibility. Apparently, NASA and every other major scientific endeavour involve no more than four people in what looks like abandoned warehouses with a few dials from a 1900s power station. There's no logic. People are getting chased by Hezbollah wannabes, find a truck, get in and drive it 20 feet, abandon it and continue on foot for some inexplicable reason. There's no continuity. The bad guys are driving black SUVs, which they ditch to follow the scientist and his family. In a later scene, mom and daughter are driving what look like the same black SUVs. And BTW, mom and daughter look and act like they're the same age, physically (about 27) and emotionally (about 12). In the end, the rogue scientist saves the earth by – surprise! – blowing up nuclear bombs in the path of a supernova "pulse", whatever that is. Luckily, in this universe, space stations come equipped with dozens of atomic missiles. Back on earth, mother and daughter spend their time driving, if only to allow worried closeups while saving money on sets. Scientists blast off in the space shuttle while wearing 1950s fighter pilot helmets to reach what looks like a space station recycled from a 1970s movie set. Sexy Asian fellow scientist (is there any other kind?) turns out to be a traitor or completely crazy (the script is too bad to help us understand which). Russian scientist turns out to be a drunk hero. The real mystery here is how a movie cliché – a drunk Russian – managed to sneak enough vodka off the set to some viewers so they would give this turkey more than the minimum one star.

RayneSaltair1 I laughed so hard during this movie that I had an asthma attack. That's when it hit me the beginning scene of the Mother and Daughter watching The Ring must have ended up on the cutting room floor. Before the reason for the movie even gets near earth Mom and daughter almost die no less than 7 times. Mother nature hits them with everything from lightening storms that cause rock slides and fire to a tornado they hide out from in a house with no windows. How 2 people could have this much bad luck is beyond me but I can see why Dad left to go into space and try to take out the supernova it was prolly safer out there than anywhere near his calamity prone kin. Don't even get me started on the acting, special effects, and lighting. I should have known it was going to be bad when I saw the white lighter guy from charmed as the lead. Bad bad and worse. Only good for a laugh.

cassmj Sorry, just saw this despite it apparently coming out in 2009.Okay, my warning said, let me try to explain some of why. The concept is a supernova that happened in the Lyra Constellation (that is crazy in itself, as a constellation is a group of stars that look near each other from our perspective, but in reality are no where near one another -- in other words, a constellation is not a place) and we somehow get two years warning. How? No explanation (a common fault in this movie). Pappa is one of the persons conceiving of the fix to place nukes in orbit and blow them up just before the blast wave comes, thereby creating a magical shield for the planet. Well, if we can get a two year warning, why not? Acting: awful. Science: awful. Accents (actors): really awful. Story: well, most of the story was unexplained within the script. Have you heard of Snappy the Squirrel (Animaniacs)? She had a line that is worth noting here: "Thank you, Mr. Exposition." This story did a lot of telling without ever showing. Don't drop a line to say something you could have shown us.Another thing, if you've heard the term "Hang a lantern on it," this movie is a classic example. They would introduce ridiculous concepts and try to explain them away by saying it was a ridiculous concept (for example, two actors looking for a necklace they couldn't find, and they were looking in kitchen cabinets -- kitchen cabinets?. But that's okay as long as they mention they hid the necklace in an odd place, right?).The script tossed in some timely but silly elements, as well. Terrorists who were completely unexplained as to why they were there. Pappa trying to drive off in a semi-truck, but only going about 100 feet before coming to a dead end (couldn't see that far ahead, dad?). Even the title itself: 2012 appeared only in the title, nowhere else in the script.The wife and daughter were worthless, as well. They were driving from home to the air base where the husband was, and they had to drive about 50 miles, and they COULDN'T GET THERE IN THREE DAYS! At one point, the road was destroyed moments before, and somehow a road crew was able to put a sign up already that said "Road closed." One amazing department of transportation, there.One possible good thing this movie could be used for: a drinking game. Every time the wife sighs, drink a shot. You'd be plastered before the first commercial break. Be forewarned: have several shot glasses for each person, because she doesn't give a lot of recharge time in some instances.The writers did not know science, logic, or how to write a decent conversation. Do not watch this film. My girlfriend and I skimmed through the last portion of the movie, and we still want our time back.