Product Details

• Actors: Shannen Doherty, Randy Quaid, Gina Gershon, Robert Wagner, James Brolin
• Directors: Dick Lowry
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: April 4, 2006
• Run Time: 169 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000E97HXA
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #14,679 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Who doesn't enjoy watching big things fall to pieces? Category 7: The End of the World wreaks havoc on the Eiffel Tower, Mt. Rushmore, the Pyramids, and a midwestern trailer park, among other things. More or less a sequel to Category 6: Day of Destruction (presumably the latest in a series that began with Category 1: Don't Forget Your Umbrella), Category 7 offers the reassuring sight of Gina Gershon, skilled with disasters like Showgirls, taking control of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Confronted with city-destroying weather, she calls in rebel meteorologist Ross Duffy (Cameron Daddo, star of such classics as Pterodactyl and Anthrax), who runs the Extreme Weather Lab and harbors theories that threaten the political status quo. Ross brings in Tommy Tornado (Randy Quaid, the sole returning actor from Category 6), Faith Clavell (Shannen Doherty, Charmed), and Col. Mike Davis (Tom Skerritt, Alien) to gather data...which isn't the most dramatic of activities (even when it involves souped-up cars and superjets), so the movie adds a subplot about a religious zealot (Nicholas Lea, The X-Files) who wants to unleash the plagues of Egypt so that everyone will realize it's the End of Days. What does it all add up to? A lot of over-the-top hooey (and that's not including the assorted family turmoils), but pretty entertaining nonetheless. It's like a lesser Michael Crichton novel: Take an inflammatory vaguely scientific premise, add two-dimensional characters, cheesy but spectacular effects, and a full-throttle if nonsensical plot, and presto! Over three hours of silly yet utterly watchable television. For added fun, drink a shot every time one character tells another "You're the most important person on the planet right now." --Bret Fetzer

Product Description
The Ultimate Superstorm is Back -- And This Time it's Deadler...The hair-raising sequel to the highly-rated TV event, "Category 6: Day of Destruction".

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Category 6: The Year of Disasters, April 22, 2006

By	Mark Talmadge - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've always been open to watching these disaster movies. Volcano, Twister, Day of Tomorrow ... all good films in their own right, despite what the movie critics say about them.

Category 7: End of the World was a very entertaining movie. I think too many entertainment fans spend too much time over-analyzing movies that are made by the entertainment industry instead of enjoying it for what it is, quality entertainment. While I haven't seen the previous film, Category 6, I plan on purchasing the movie to see how this series started.

While it's not too impossible to believe, such events as what is seen in this film could very well become true. With the rising cost of oil and the fact that the greenhouse effect and global warming are impacting our enviropnment, this movie does have a very moral lesson to show anyone who watches this movie. We must protect our environment before it starts to react to our presence on this world.

It was refreshing to see Shannon Doherty and her authentic talent coming to the surface. She had been released from Beverly Hills 90210 and Charmed because of her attitude with producers and directors but it was refreshing to see her performing true to her nature and having a role that was written just for her. She is a wonderful actress and it's time more and more roles were written specifically for her. Randy Quaid is also the consummate actor who always seems to manage to steal every scene he's in.

But, I was disapponted that the US Government and the politicians that are portrayed in this movie seem content in facing the ultimate destruction of Mother Nature and protecting the interests of the large corporations, oil cartels and special interests instead of safeguarding the lives of the people. It shows a lack of original thinking on the part of the writers, who should have gone to a few more creative writing courses before sitting down to write this movie. In addition, I felt that this movie was a little longer than it should have been. Hopefully, there'll be a little more of a waiting period before we see Category 8, which will be coming our way faster than we can turn off the power.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not BLU-RAY Copied from DVD, June 13, 2008

By	Robert R. Mills "ROBERT MILLS" (Redding california) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Category 7: The End of the World [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

Love disaster movies when i saw this on blu-ray i bought it but after careful inspection of this video it is MPEG-2 not BLU-RAY this has been copied from a dvd onto a blu-ray disc...

LOVE Gina Gershon what a Babe 10++ but being in computer video business it was easy for me to figure out that this movie was copied from a dvd disc not real blu-ray.......

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 11-6-05 I just saw pt. 1 yesterday and can barely wait for pt.2, November 8, 2005

By	Fortean Anomalie (way way way out there) - See all my reviews

I LOVED this!!!
Is it wrong to enjoy the world's great landmarks being destoyed
(via cgi)???If it is then call me wrong!!What did they destroy?
Oh,just Paris,and Giza,and The Statue of Liberty,and the promos
promise the White House next week(did I mention they lopped Washington's face off of Rushmore?)Do I want to see any of this happen in real life ..NO! In a movie like this I LOVE it!!!