Meteor

Meteor (1979)

  • 8% of critics liked it
    (12 reviews)

  • 17% of users liked it
    (856 ratings)

The Soviets and Americans combine forces to save the world from a meteor in this science fiction disaster adventure. Bradley (Sean Connery) is an American scientist who teams up with Dubov (Brian Keith), and his translator-assistant Tatiana (Natalie Wood) later falls in love with Bradley. Hong Kong… More

In Theaters
Oct 19, 1979 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Chatty disaster pic that talks itself to death.

  • Stefan Birgir Stefansson, sbs.is

    bond saves the world yet again

  • Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall

    entertainingly ludicrous

  • Bob Bloom, Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

    A grab-the-money-and-run disaster opus with a slumming Connery and Wood ludicrious as a Russian scientist. Too bad the set wasn't hit by a giant falling space rock.

  • Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

    Entertaining, but only in an "OMG is this stupid!" sort of way.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • AJ V


    One of the last disaster movies of the 70s. It has some intense moments, but for the most part it's boring and the story is kinda silly too. Still, it's entertaining.

  • Anthony L


    Even in 1979 Meteor was a little dated but looking beyond the low budget it does have a certain charm about it. You've gotta love the creepy synth noise the meteor makes the closer it gets to earth!

  • jay n


    Junk with a good cast trying to breath some life into a tired script.

  • shane h


    I had never heard of this movie before, it showed up as a suggestion when I looked up Dante's Peak. Godzilla is to Cloverfield as Meteor is to Armageddon. It's 1979 and the special effects are cutting edge at the time. They used scale models against space backdrops and… More

  • Barry L


    Great late seventies dramatic monster of a movie

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