Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

siderite If you think this movie is about asteroids hurtling towards Earth, you are wrong. It's about people running around and spewing idiocy, while the orchestra is trying to make us feel something.The stupidity of the script is all the more evident because the acting is rather reasonable. There are people that have no idea what acting is about, but there are some that are making an effort. The science is non existent. They even show the crater of the Tunguska meteor. The asteroids are coming towards Earth because they are magnetic! What a mess!Let me quote from the film "Don't waste previous time on me!". Do not watch this! :)

BaronBl00d Not a bad premise at all about an eclectic group of scientists trying to send a man in space and achieving that dream only to falter in his descent by causing a bunch of meteors to gather together in one big clump and head toward Earth for its final destruction. The scientists scurry and hurry to find a way out of this doom and that is when the day the sky explodes is relevant. This movie has some things going for it. It is extremely thought-provoking - almost to the point of too much perhaps. It becomes so talky and leaden throughout and is aided by wooden performances and extremely cheap sets. Catch that rocket ship move like a snail! The acting, as I have said, is nothing particularly good nor is the direction nor is the script - which plods and plods. The film does get somewhat interesting in the last fifteen minutes or so, but by that time my eyes were almost glazing over from sleep. There are some brilliantly shot scenes despite the low budget and those were probably set up by cinematographer Mario Bava(one of the greatest horror directors of all time). You can get a sense of his visual artistry here and there, but let's face it - he hasn't much to work with. The Day the Sky Exploded has some real neat ideas but just less than compelling execution.

mstomaso This little Italian oddity offers the drama of a world-wide disaster and the themes of international cooperation which were better capitalized by the Star Trek franchise and several similar disaster films of more recent vintage.The film is somewhat unique for its unusually jerky pace, clever low budget effects, odd use of stock footage, and strange cinematography. The Day the Sky Exploded begins as if it is going to be a space-flight adventure, but instead treats the space flight in a realistic, almost mundane manner, before proceeding to reveal the real plot - concerning the meteors. The astronaut (nicely played by Hubschmidt) is forced to eject from the nuclear powered rocket and the rocket flies off to .... where? before you know it, a cluster of meteors, probably blown off of some planet or perhaps the moon, is threatening to destroy the earth. Some of the 'scientists' allude to unknown religious beliefs and seem to think that some great big meanie out there has it in for us because we've ventured off our planet in a serious way for the first time (like the perspective offered by Star Trek First Contact inverted). The plot begins with the rocket launch and a great feeling of optimism and then proceeds into panic, and then a feeling of inevitable doom, as nobody seems able to come up with an adequate solution.There are also some amusing but really unnecessary romantic elements and some decent character development which help to round the film out in a general way. The acting is generally good, but there are a few really odd moments where people seem either too calm or absurdly evocative given the circumstances they are dealing with. There are also a couple of bad moments for the script, which may be a result of translation problems from the film's native language.I have noticed a lot of people making fun of the special effects. Sure, the dozens of stock footage clips of rockets being launched is over-done, and yeah, some of the scenes showing people and cars moving around in the parking lot of an unidentified building are kind of funny, but I actually enjoyed the primitive but creatively filmed scenes of asteroids and explosions. They were, at the very least, more artistically designed than some of what appears in contemporary films with similarly low budgets.

sol1218 **SPOILERS** In a joint US/UK/USSR effort to send a man into space USAF pilot John McLaren, Paul Hubschmid, is chosen to go aboard the X/Z Atomic Rocket on a trip around the moon and back. As the X/Z approaches the moon it runs into technical troubles and McLaren together with his rocket cabin is ejected and lands back on earth with the X/Z's atomic powered motor/engine exploding harmlessly in space, or so everyone thought. The next few days strange things begin to happen back on earth that defy any explanation that modern science can provide. Birds and animals, even peoples pet dogs cats and canaries, start to act very weird. There's a massive migrations all over the earth of wildlife away from any large body of water like the sea or the ocean or even big lakes and rivers. The sky starts to change in color at sundown and sunrise with this golden bronze and red haze and the moon itself becomes a blood-red illuminated sphere at night. The magnetic pull from outer space, notably that of the moon, cause huge tidal waves and flooding of low lying areas and governments scientists and local astronomer pick up on radar this giant asteroid hurling itself towards earth. An asteroid one million times bigger then the one that struck in Siberia back in 1908 and wiped out hundreds of miles of woodlands. It turns out that when McLaren ejected from his space-craft it went on into deep space until it hit the Delta Astorid Belt and dislodged a number it's giant boulders. Causing them to travel in space towards both the earth and the moon attracted by their magnetic pull. Those boulders are now due to reach their destination with devastating force in less then a weeks time.Good use of newsreel stock footage in this little known Sci-Fi movie that's a lot like the more expensively made future disaster films like "Meteor" in 1979 and both "Deep Inpact" and "Armageddon" in 1998. With a top rate performance by Paul Hubschmid, also know previously as Paul Christian, as the air force pilot who was at first responsible for the space disaster to happen. And later was responsible for preventing it from destroying, by slamming into and pulverizing, the planet with the same element or force that initiated it; nuclear power.Exciting conclusion with the top scientists an military men on earth using all the worlds atomic and hydrogen bombs packed onto fleets of intercontinental missiles. These missiles are then sent toward the deadly out-of-control giant asteroid using the very forces of man-made nuclear destruction to save the earth from this terrifying force of nature from outer space.