My big problem with this movie is that there are times when it seems the director wanted to tell the story in real time. The bulk of the viewing audience is very accustomed to the abbreviations in the action in order to keep the pace exciting. It may have been that the director through dragging out some of the sequences would help build suspense. What it really did was to underscore the lack of suspense inherent to the story. Watching the missiles for minutes on end only made this viewer realize just how little I cared by that point. Part of me was rooting for the meteor, for mercy's sake. Given the era, and nearly ten years of riveting disaster movies that went before it, it's inexcusable that this one couldn't keep us on the edges of our seats.
