Product Details

• Actors: Michael Biehn, Annabella Sciorra, Zachary Charles, Don Franklin, Carlos Gómez
• Directors: Bradford May
• Writers: Robbyn Burger, Scott Sturgeon
• Producers: Christopher Morgan, Dan Schmit, Dianna Oliva-Day, Donna Ebbs, John Davis
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Live / Artisan
• VHS Release Date: June 22, 1999
• Run Time: 122 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304561547
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #138,607 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

With the discovery of an incoming asteroid, the government of America formulate a plan to destroy it. When the plan fails, all the world can do is wait. The main impact zone is revealed to be Dallas, Texas. Generally, the plot follows the lives and reactions of several characters: an astronomer, her father, her son, two firefighters from Kansas, two young doctors in Dallas and the heads of the government agency in charge of the situation.

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33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars teased, March 12, 2003

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doppelganger "dvd-archive" (Chicago) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Asteroid (DVD)

Yes, it's no Deep Impact or Armeggedon. The only similiarity is the asteroid. And if were not for two little things, this would've been a four star movie. First, there is a water-crashing-over-land scene that is reminiscent of the old days (the 60's) when we saw frothy bathwater being tossed over miniature model towns. It's an eyesore in the movie and that's when you start to notice the acting aint all that great either. There are alot of really good effects mixed in though, which is puzzling. There is no spaceship that attempts to make a landing on the asteroid, and their defensive ideas all revolve around lasers instead of nukes. There is a movie here, but they mixed in some pretty bad effects with the good ones and spent too much TIME focusing on the drama of the doctor's lost child and the grandpa. You know what happens, she spends at least a half hour of the movie looking through a wasteland, and then there's another 30 minutes spent on totally irrelevant action sequences while rescuing a boy from his own stupidity (he wanders into an asteroid crater - that is on fire).
Reviewers seem to like this movie, and it wasn't all that bad. Deep Impact is one of my favorite movies, so I had to check this out. I can only watch Armeggedon if I'm alone and allowed to fast-forward through all the drama scenes. And Asteroid will never be watched twice - i.e. rent.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Asteroid, March 19, 2008

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Kelly "Reviewer for The Sinfully Sensuous" (Littleton, Colorado) - See all my reviews
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I liked this movie. It was thought provoking and insightful with the action taking place in a location not usually seen before. Dallas, Texas was a good choice as it is highly populated, but not typical like New York, or Los Angeles. Being a Colorado girl, I liked that the NOAA facility in Boulder was used. The FEMA aspect was something new not usually included in these types of movies, and gave a more human element to the story instead of focusing on the impending disaster.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Where's the Movie, November 11, 2005

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Rocky Mountain Man "Chuck" (Colorado, USA) - See all my reviews

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I originally watched this movie on television. It had a lot of good action scenes but some, as another reviewer had indicated, were like watching a class B movie from the 60s. They could of done a much better job especially with the water scenes in Kansas City. However, the big part that I hate was the removal of parts on the DVD versus the television production of the same movie. Usually you get extras on a DVD but this one removed portions. I would assume that was done to restrict it to 2 hours but some of the scenes removed actually made the movie better. In addition, even though I can't really prove it, it looks like the editors of this DVD sped up the movie. If they just left the movie exactly the way it was when it played on NBC (I believe) or added additional scenes cut from the original movie, it would of made this one DVD purchase much more worth the money. I would recommend renting it versus buying it.