Collision Earth

Collision Earth is a Canadian disaster television film directed by .^[1] It was released in 2011 for broadcast on the Syfy Channel and later distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment on Blu-ray.^[2]

Plot[]

In the year 2029, the Nautilus spacecraft is getting prepared to land on Mercury. On board is Commander Marshall Donnington, Pilot Lee Tahon, and Victoria Preston. But during their orbit capture, a sudden and unpredicted solar flare comes out of the sun and hits Mercury and starts to magnetize and tear the planet apart. The Nautilus managed to escape danger at the beginning of the event but then caught in it when their engines fail. Mercury then starts to fall apart but stays together because of the magnetism and is pushed out of its orbit and starts a collision course with Earth.

An instant later, we are in a auditorium at a university with Scientist James Preston. He explains how unpredictable the asteroids, solar flares, and comets are. He then explains a planetary defense system called Project Seven. After the lecture, a person from mission ops with the Nautilus explains that they have lost contact with the Nautilus. Preston quickly runs home and tries to contact mission ops, but is unsuccessful. He then contacts Jennifer Kelly, a scientist working at a facility called Sphere. While on the phone, Preston gets command codes for Project 7 just before the power goes out in his house. Later a magnetic wave passes Earth damaging several satellites and moving anything metal.

We then arrive back to the Nautilus with low oxygen levels and damaged navigation and communication systems. Marshall and Victoria survived but Lee did not survive. They found him with severe burns and was not breathing. Meanwhile, at Sphere, they find out that Mercury will miss Earth by a distance of 500,000 miles. Back on the Nautilus, the oxygen levels are fixed and Marshall stabilized the ship. They start then working on fixing the Navigation and Communication. Back on Earth, Preston arrives at his friend's Observatory and explains to him that something wasn't right. Victoria managed to fix the communication and somehow connects to a pirate radio station owned by two seniors at North Bay University in Oregon. The Nautilus managed to connect to Christopher Weaver and Brooke Adamson. But they later lose the signal. Preston's friend Matthew Keyes explains to Preston that our sun became a for one millisecond. Unexpectedly, magnetized pieces of Mercury start entering the atmosphere. After the meteor shower, Preston retrieves a meteor and concludes that it is magnetized.

Later Brooke and Christopher regain contact with the Nautilus and want them to go to mission ops but it is Houston, so they go to Sphere south of Seattle. When the guards at Sphere don't believe Christopher and Brooke, Victoria sends them to Preston's house in Pacific Grove. Preston arrives at Sphere and manages to get in even though he isn't supposed to. He tells his old boss Edward Rex to recalculate the . They then find out that Mercury is on a collision course with Earth in 18 hours. Rex decides to go with "Operation Recourse" instead of Project Seven. But while they talk, Preston manages to sneak his security badge off of him. When Christopher and Brooke arrive at Preston's house, he is not home, so they go in through his back door and accidentally turn on his computer and look at the Project Seven calculations as Preston walks in. They tell him that his wife sent them and proves it by turning on his radio and he manages to talk to Victoria. When she thinks of magnetizem, she thinks of a slingshot maneuver to break free and go back to Earth. But then they lost contact again.

When Preston goes on his computer, he realizes that Project Seven guidance system is damaged. Matthew comes up with a plan that that Nautilus can tug Project Seven in between the Planets. Preston then goes to a fallback facility where the top secret files are located. While on his way to the fallback facility, his car gets stolen so he walks for a little bit and then gets picked up by Brooke and Christopher. Meanwhile, Victoria manages to pull off the slingshot maneuver, but after it the life systems get damaged. Victoria manages to fix it in under 15 minutes. Meanwhile, not listening to Preston's science, Rex launches the missiles to Mercury but explode before they get to the planet because Mercury's mangnetizm was forcing the missiles off course. When Brooke and Christoper's car breaks down, because of the alternator, they decide to walk. While Victoria is headed back to Earth, Preston asks her to tether Project Seven to in front of Mercury to deflect it. They then steal a police officer's car but get into an accident along the way, severely injuring Brooke. When she was not breathing, they left her behind and some time later they find Jennifer dead and take her badge to access the fallback facility.

When they get to the facility they find a computer and send activation codes for the energy field to Project Seven thus enabling the energy field. Victoria docks with Project Seven and guides it to Mercury and undocks with it before impact. Preston and Christopher then run outside and see Mercury moving away from Earth. They then contact Victoria, who managed to escape and tells each other about the view. But when we go outside of the Nautilus, there are rocks from Mercury that formed into rings around Earth.

Cast[]

• Kirk Acevedo: James Preston
• Diane Farr: Victoria Preston
• : Christopher Weaver
• Jessica Parker Kennedy: Brooke Adamson
• Adam Greydon Reid: Matthew Keyes
• : Edward Rex
• David Lewis: Marshall Donnington
• Catherine Lough Haggquist: Jennifer Kelly

Critical reception[]

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The film was criticized for overused plot elements and low-budget special effects.^[3]

See also[]

• Mercury in fiction

References[]

External links[]

• Collision Earth at IMDb