The sun is going to supernova, people have to be evacuated to safe cities underground, and the main character's wife is afraid of a serial killer who is about to be executed. It seems like that's enough to make an exciting Sci-Fi film, but it...
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The sun is going to supernova, people have to be evacuated to safe cities underground, and the main character's wife is afraid of a serial killer who is about to be executed. It seems like that's enough to make an exciting Sci-Fi film, but it doesn't work.

The filmmakers couldn't decide to set it in South Africa, where it was filmed, or in Australia. There's no real reason to set it in Australia, and stock footage of Sydney is about as close as it gets. It's obviously South Africa, but many of the characters speak with American accents (not just the American actors, either).

The serial killer thing really has nothing to do with the whole story, and just makes it more confusing. With a really compelling performance by the stars, they could have made the end product at least watchable, in spite of the already mentioned questionable choices, but that doesn't happen either because of one man: Luke Perry. That's right, Luke Perry is the main guy in this flick. That should prevent you from watching it right there, because he is terrible.

In the end though, (since you won't be watching it) Luke's character discovers the world's top scientists made a math error, there isn't going to be a supernova, we'll be fine, just ignore the widespread destruction from over-active sunspots.

Disappointing disaster movie with a pretty basic storyline about clever scientists and bad governments...