Well I’m biased (the wife’s friend’s boyfriend did the special effects on this film), but I thought that this film was officially ‘alright’ (Boyle, if you’re reading you can stick that on your movie posters).
However, there are a few, shall we say, ‘questionable’ aspects to this film. If you had a choice between throwing a bomb the size of Manhattan into the sun or alternatively Manhattan into the sun I know what I’d choose, if only to hear loads of New Yorkers shouting “Hey! I’m burning here.”
And how hard is it to crash something into the sun? I mean, it’s pretty bloody hard to miss the biggest thing in our galaxy. Having said that, it wouldn’t have been a particularly good film if they did it that way, but would have made sense dammnit!
Incidentally there was another thing about just these sort of shennanigans happening back in 1990 called ‘Solar Crisis’, which also bombed, I think mainly due to confusion over how an iced lolly could cause any sort of crisis. It also had Charlton Heston in it as a badass general.