Meteor (1979)
Directed by Ronald Neame
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it hits, it will cause an incredible catastrophe that will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor, NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules," but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough firepower. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR, which has also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
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What critics compared Meteor to
One thing that Greenland has going for it is that it offers better visuals than 1979’s Meteor (although that stinker had Sean Connery in a role not typically mentioned in his career retrospective).
Since then, we’ve had everything from Abel Gance’s troubled 1931 French sci-fi thriller La fin du monde , in which rioters and revellers await doomsday, to 1979’s star-studded Meteor , about cold war enemies working together to fend off an approaching threat.
Natalie Wood! Henry Fonda!) Meteor back in 1979.