Product Details

• Actors: Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau
• Directors: Ronald Neame
• Writers: Edmund H. North, Stanley Mann
• Producers: Arnold H. Orgolini, Gabriel Katzka, Run Run Shaw, Sandy Howard, Theodore R. Parvin
• Format: Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Language: English, Russian
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Good Times Video
• VHS Release Date: May 15, 2001
• Run Time: 108 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000065MD
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #312,531 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb forerunner of recent hits, February 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Meteor [VHS] (VHS Tape)

When you see this, you may learn where some of the inspirations for ARMAGEDDON and DEEP IMPACT came from. Sean Connery gives a strong performance as a scientist trying to convince the military and government that a giant meteor five miles wide(apparently a rock from the producer's back garden was used and it shows!) is heading for Earth, preceeded by deadly fragments. After the talk comes some action and effects which were good for the time, and sometimes still look great even now. An avalanche in Switzerland, a tidal wave flooding Hong Kong, and as a preview of ARMAGEDDON, a huge fragment demolishes New York(although you can tell it's stock film in parts, even though it's kept to a minimum). And the space scenes towards the end of the movie are great! The characters are much more well-created and acted than in many films of this genre from the 1970s, particularly Connery(he makes anything worth watching when he's in it, with the obvious exceptions of ZARDOZ and HIGHLANDER 2: THE QUICKENING), Henry Fonda(as the President), Brian Keith not speaking a word of English except when he mocks the Brooklyn Dodgers(!), Natalie Wood as his interpreter and MISSION IMPOSSIBLE's Martin Landau as a caricature hot-headed Air Force general! Altogether, if you enjoyed DEEP IMPACT and ARMAGEDDON, don't miss METEOR. You'll be just as entertained!

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Better than Deep Impact, less noise than Armageddon, July 4, 1999

By 

Mark Savary "moon_city" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Meteor [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is one of those movies that is a guilty pleasure, kind of like
"The Neptune Factor". Sure, it's bad. But that's half the
fun!

"Meteor" is one of the very first space-based
disaster films from the era of disaster films (Airport, Towering
Inferno, Earthquake). The effects range from good (rockets launched
from orbiting platforms), to terrible (Skylab as a deep space probe,
and a two-by-four building trying to pass as a skyscraper).

One of
the opening scenes, of a sailboat crossing a starfield, is
inspired.

Whereas Deep Impact had good effects, and Armageddon was
nothing but flash and NOISE, "Meteor" has a touch of
class. This despite the bad acting and cheesy effects.

Try this one
out. It's a fun watch!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Meteoric Disaster, January 10, 2009

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Cassandra A. Morrison "The Shadow's Girl" (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Meteor (DVD)

I love this movie and I don't care who knows it. Sean Connery and Natalie Wood are fantastic together---Brian Keith (who committed suicide in 1997) is great as the Russian Counterpart of Connery's character. Martin Landau (CLEOPATRA, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, SPACE 1999, ED WOOD, SLEEPY HOLLOW---and probably most famous for producing daughter Juliet--hey, does that mean Bela Lugosi is the father of Drusilla? Probably not) is great as the Air Force General who, in the end, puts service to his country ahead of his own ego. And Karl Malden turns in his usual performance---meaning top-notch. The special effects are a bit cheesy by 2009 standards but they worked at the time.
And you should notice the name of the spacecraft that gets destroyed early in the film. It is the Challenger 2. Now remember, this movie was released 1979--seven years BEFORE...well, you know.
The radio station from New Jersey they are hearing in the subway WAS a real station---WKBW. It's no longer around but it's recreation of Orson Welles' WAR OF THE WORLDS broadcast---first in 1968 (on the 30th anniversary of the Welles Broadcast) and then all over again in 1971 earned their science fiction street creds before their appearance in this film.
You can learn more and hear the broadcasts here: http://wkbwradio.com/page2.htm

Finally mention must be made of Henry Fonda as the President---Mr. Fonda was the kind of man I would have voted for until thew cows came home...and then I'd have held a gun on the cows until THEY voted for him too!
You will LOVE this movie!