Meteor (1979)

Between leaving James Bond in 1971 and the resurrection of his career in the mid-80s with The Name of the Rose and The Untouchables, Sean Connery made some real crap. Meteor is one such outing (although nowhere near as bad as Zardoz!) Connery plays Paul Bradley, a scientist who developed Project Hercules, a missile platform in space designed to destroy meteors that are going to hit the Earth. Of course, the bad guys (ie the military) have pointed the rockets the other way (ie China/Russia). Well, now a meteor is coming and Bradley has been asked by NASA head Harry Sherwood (Karl Malden) to come back and get Hercules working the way it should be. (Apparently NASA spent a fortune on this thing, but didn't bother getting a user manual!!!).

But wait, Hercules is not big enough for this rock! They must use Russia's equivalent platform. Bradley and Sherwood must fight the military in the person of General Adlon (Martin Landau) to get the help of Russian scientist Dr Dubov (Brian Keith!?) and his lovely translator/assistant Tatiana (Natalie Wood) so that the Earth may be saved.

Meteor is the kind of movie that could have been much better if only the writers Stanley Mann and Edmund North had thought through the logic of things a bt more. And the device of having Dubov speak only Russian may be realistic (not that realism belongs in this sort of film) but is really annoying.

And like all of these disaster movies, it has a cast that you instantly recognise and then almost as instantly realise that none of them had done anything worthwhile for a decade.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079550/

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