I don't know which is more stupid - me wasting 2 nights watching this crapola or the script writers who must have wrote the plot in protest of their paycut.
Take for instance the mainplot involving the little scientist girl, Imogen - she has the vital coordinates to save the planet but before she can make that one simple phone call to end this agonising mini series - the car she is driving runs outta gas, her professor mentor gets a hit and run, she hitches a ride to a Mexican police station which coincidentally is being held up by gunmen who then tries to rape her only to be saved by a meteor,she escapes and is picked up by border patrol but on route to the air force base, the patrol car is run off the road by a runaway truck with no brakes, she grabs the gun but not the cell phone (hellooo?) and then proceeds to walk across the desert trying to hail down cars(no takers for a single white gorgeous girl?), she gets to a grocery who charges her 50bucks for a phonecall, she has $16+pesos and she gets turned away (the same grocers promptly lends the next guy that comes along their jeep!),so she continues walking and ends up at a house with a creepy old lady with a shotgun,but hooray she gets to use her phone. Ahhh..you're thinking surely nothing can go wrong now....oh yes it can. Approximately 30s into the call, the control center she is calling gets hit by a meteor...the phone goes dead. There's more but its gonna take me all night to list them.
The rest of the subplots are equally convoluted. Credit to the actors who did put in a token effort but the scripters should be left to twist in the wind..slowly.
Take for instance the mainplot involving the little scientist girl, Imogen - she has the vital coordinates to save the planet but before she can make that one simple phone call to end this agonising mini series - the car she is driving runs outta gas, her professor mentor gets a hit and run, she hitches a ride to a Mexican police station which coincidentally is being held up by gunmen who then tries to rape her only to be saved by a meteor,she escapes and is picked up by border patrol but on route to the air force base, the patrol car is run off the road by a runaway truck with no brakes, she grabs the gun but not the cell phone (hellooo?) and then proceeds to walk across the desert trying to hail down cars(no takers for a single white gorgeous girl?), she gets to a grocery who charges her 50bucks for a phonecall, she has $16+pesos and she gets turned away (the same grocers promptly lends the next guy that comes along their jeep!),so she continues walking and ends up at a house with a creepy old lady with a shotgun,but hooray she gets to use her phone. Ahhh..you're thinking surely nothing can go wrong now....oh yes it can. Approximately 30s into the call, the control center she is calling gets hit by a meteor...the phone goes dead. There's more but its gonna take me all night to list them.
The rest of the subplots are equally convoluted. Credit to the actors who did put in a token effort but the scripters should be left to twist in the wind..slowly.