Megafault

Megafault

In every press-releases, The Asylum production companies have stressed that their Sci-Fi original movie Megafault is indeed their most ambitious project on all levels. You will have to keep in mind the fact that it in absolute terms that does not tell much and even those that have watched these production companies do not scream for joy. Yes, there are few famous actor faces in the movie and explosions as well, plenty of them but this is a dollar shop movie nonetheless.

Dr. Amy Lane is played by Brittany Murphy and she is a seismologist. We first come across her as she is delivering a talk about how ill prepared we are for earthquakes and at that point she gets cut off from her speech because there is an earthquake. How poetic!

Dr. Lane is airlifted to the focus of the West Virginia mining community’s earthquake where she is separated from her husband and young daughter. Obtaining this information, she frees a miner who was wedged in a car that fell down a fissure. His name is Boomer, and he is played by Eriq La Salle. When Boomer was blasting with explosives, he thought he caused the quake, but Dr. Lane tells him he is wrong. The tremors return, this time behind them a yawning chasm the megafault is the title and it really lived up to its name as it tore across the United States. This is a disaster that requires most immediate action.

In the meantime, while airlifts are organizing for Amy’s husband and daughter back to Colorado, the beacons of the airport are taken out from the last quakes. It seems as this is also the case when they drive the aircraft, as it soon runs into another plane before hitting the ground. Mister and Little Miss Lane, one can assume however, manage to get out a bit disheveled but otherwise fine. They hitch a ride from a fuel truck and do not bother mentioning to anyone that they had just been in a plane crash. Next, the ever-elusive mega fault that had to wait its turn in the scenario decided to make its presence felt and chased them along the backroads as debris was flying all over.

Dr. Amy Lane appears not to be worried about the safety of her relatives and instead of that, she looks at how she can stop the megafault from advancing. As it seems, this must be done by freezing the ground water by beaming some Kind of beam from a satellite, which would cause a second quake which would nullify the first.

They fail nevertheless to our immense surprise and now with this failure, the megafault has moved towards a dormant super volcano located in yellow stone park. The new plan was to blast a trench, which was the size of grand canyon into the ground in order to…oh, who cares? It’s not like any of this is believable anyway.

Any expectations that may be aroused by the mention of the more than well known names cannot hardly live through the following events. Brittany Murphy, who is the world`s first fifteen year old looking seismologist by all means, has Botox lips or whatever, and she has lost almost all of the talent she displayed in the movie “8 Miles”. Eriq La Salle looks somewhat dazed most of the time. Bruce Davison, in the movie X Men, spends three quarters of the movie standing by and looking at different remarkably boring screens. As for the rest of the cast, it is better to say nothing about them at all.

In terms of relevance of the storyline, this can’t be a shoggoth movie. People expect to harm Megafault for poor usage of physics, but of course that is missing the point. But over here in particular we get to see a fault line that is very much alive, continuously morphing and expanding with deep generalizations and personal vendettas towards the main characters. La Salle Eriq is a well-known TV actor who plays the lead role in the film and is also a popular actor in the drama series. It must have a third of the amount that is spent on production.

Most of the action becomes very repetitive we have seen it all and much better done elsewhere however, I will take one with me from this movie. This is what happens when, for reasons rarely provided, magma reaches the upper crust near a town in Wyoming. In the beginning, the locals, who are played by extras who seem to have staggering difficulties navigating through town, don’t realize that it is hot enough to set ablaze structures directly behind them. They are very much quiet in the area until they notice that the soles of their shoes are beginning to melt. Suddenly, however, they all burst into flames! It is such a magnificently over the top scene.

Moving on to the visual effects, they are pretty much how I had anticipated. Not the worst I’ve seen, but definitely is not very believable either. There is a very visible effect, especially at the end of the clip. The Asylum is repeating the same sequence over and over, hoping no-one will complain, or perhaps simply not giving a damn.

But the main problem is that in spite of a couple of long, very loud, crash bang wallop sequences, with lots of new cars being driven up and down and many, many explosions going off the rest of the film, Megafault, is such a dull affair, because the plot lines, dialogues, characters and acting are really very poor. God knows, I have got nothing against bad movies, but there is a distinct difference between making a bad movie on purpose and truly trying to make a good movie and failing in the end, the former isn’t usually all that interesting to watch. According to what I seen from their production, The Asylum is in that lane.

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