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Meteor Full Movie In Hindi Free Download Hd 1080p-----------------------------------------DOWNLOAD: http://urllio.com/r4j37 -----------------------------------------The USA must join forces with the USSR in order to destroy a gigantic asteroid heading straight for Earth.After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading toward Earth. If it hits, it will cause an incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor, NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules," but soon discovers 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?One of the last of the disaster films which the 1970s doled out with great regularity, this is trashy sci-fi fun. The script by Stanley Mann and Edmund H. North is not exactly free of cliché but it is largely free of scientific accuracy. There are a few nice lines here and there though. The film's director Ronald Neame lived to be 99. While he may have been blessed with great longevity, he was not blessed with great talent as his direction is pretty mediocre. It's competent but nothing to get excited about. The visual effects are generally speaking not very good by 1979 standards but the devastation of New York City is effectively portrayed. Considering that it begins with the destruction of the World Trade Center, I found it more emotionally affecting than it was ever intended to be, unfortunately. I freely admit that the film is not very good but it appeals to the part of me that enjoys schlocky hokum and, on that level, I quite liked it. I dislike the term "guilty pleasure" but, if I were forced into a corner, I would describe it as one.
The film stars Sean Connery in a great performance as the former NASA scientist Dr. Paul Bradley. He is contacted by his erstwhile employers, who inform him that the asteroid Orpheus was struck by a newly discovered comet several days earlier and a five mile fragment of said asteroid is hurtling towards a particular planet in the Solar System. It just so happens to be Earth, worst luck. Bradley left NASA because he objected to the fact that his orbital defence system Project Hercules, which he designed for just such an eventuality, was hijacked by the US military industrial complex and turned into a nuclear weapons platform to be used against the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China if necessary. In this respect, the plot foreshadows the proposed Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) - otherwise known as "Star Wars" - announced by Ronald Reagan in 1983. As it turns out, Hercules' fourteen nuclear missiles are not enough to destroy the meteor and, after some Cold War posturing, the USSR agrees to place their equivalent satellite Peter the Great at the disposal of Bradley and his fellow scientists.
In one of her final film appearances before her tragic death in 1981, Natalie Wood, one of my favourite actresses of her generation, is very good as the Russian astrophysicist Dr. Tatiana Donskaya. Considering that Wood had been virtually absent from the silver screen since "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" a decade earlier, it is a pretty safe bet that she was cast more for her ability to speak fluent Russian than for her great skill as an actress. While she does not have as much opportunity to display it on this occasion as I would have liked, she does the best that she can with the material. I liked the nice understated romance between Bradley and Tatiana, though it is very underdeveloped even by the standards of understated romances! It's a shame that this was her only film with Connery as they had good chemistry. It would have been nice to see them in a better film together but, alas, it was not to be.
Brian Keith gives the best performance in the film, stealing the show as the incredibly likable Soviet scientist Dr. Dubov. He has the lion's share of the best lines in the film, almost all of which are delivered in Russian. Keith was a very good actor but he was likewise cast because of his fluency in the language. In spite of a dodgy start, Karl Malden is good as Bradley's old friend Harry Sherwood. Martin Landau's performance as the film's not terribly bright or perceptive antagonist General Adlon is not one of his best but he does much better in the scenes in which he is calmer than in the ones in which he has to shout. Henry Fonda, also making one of his final film appearances, is very atypically bad in his cameo role as the President. Conversely, Trevor Howard makes the most of his limited screen time as the prominent British astronomer Sir Michael Hughes, even though he only ever appears on a TV screen. It also features nice small appearances from Joseph Campanella, Richard Dysart and Bibi Besch.
Overall, I rather enjoyed this film because I turned my brain off and took very little of it seriously. I'd take it over "Armageddon" any day of the week.I believe it was during the seventies, that disaster films became the new rage which captured an audience's attention. Some were good, some better and a few even garnered enough awards to make it financially profitable. Among those which impressed me, were the Posiden Adventure (the original), and this one. " Meteor " did so with it star power. An actor like Sean Connery as Dr. Paul Bradley, makes for an interesting plot line. When joined with other great actors like Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau,Trevor Howard as Sir Michael Hughes and Henry Fonda as The President, then the believability of the movie is a certainty. The story, taken from one of many disaster scenarios of 'What Would Happen If" is one which appeals to audiences who worry about such events. A gigantic, five mile chunk of rock is headed towards Earth and leading U. S. political and Military officials and their Russian counterparts debate weather or not to reveal political secrets or face certain obliteration. The film is riveting enough were it not for certain scenes which put into dispute the eventual mortality of mankind with the dwindling hope of trust between nations. Nevertheless, it's a fun movie, made so by the always resolute Connery and the charm of the late Natalie Wood. ****As the title implies, Meteor is a disaster movie about a meteor about to hit the Earth in seven days. The only way the American experts can think of to stop the meteor is by hitting it with their orbital nuclear missiles, dubbed Hercules, which are currently pointed at the USSR. The problem is that the combined power of the Hercules missiles is not powerful enough to stop the meteor, so the US wants to unite their Hercules missiles with the missiles from the USSR's secret Peter the Great project, which are currently pointed at the United States. An additional problem is that neither government wants the other government to know that they even have such missiles. Meteor is based on a screenplay by screenwriters Edmund H North and Stanley Mann. However, it was inspired by Project Icarus, a report written by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a hypothetical systems project. The report focused on the concept of using missiles to deflect an asteroid that might become threatening to Earth. The project was described in the June 1967 issue of Time magazine and published as a book, Project Icarus: an MIT Student Project in Systems Engineering, in 1968. The chain of events started when a never-seen-before comet appeared from the other side of the sun and passed through the asteroid belt, hitting a large asteroid known as Orpheus. Orpheus broke into chunks. Several of those chunks started on a trajectory course with the Earth. Most of the pieces were small, but one particular chunk was five miles wide and could do serious damage to the Earth if it hits. This chunk, now known as the Orpheus meteor is projected to hit the Earth in six days. The Russian missiles are launched. While waiting for the 20 minutes to pass until they can launch the American missiles, Dr Bradley (Sean Connery) receives a message from Sir Michael Hughes (Trevor Howard) in England informing him that another chunk of Orpheus has been spotted heading for New York. Moments after the American missiles are fired, the chunk hits New York, causing massive destruction and destroying the World Trade Center. Because the control center is located in an old subway shaft under the Bell System building, it is not completely destroyed, but the rubble traps the survivors underground. Bradley leads out the survivors through the subway tunnels, enduring muddy water from the East River and breaking through blocked tunnels. When they get almost to the top, they are able to listen to a news broadcast saying that the missiles were successful in breaking up the meteor, just as someone breaks through the last pile of rubble from the outside, freeing them all. In the final scene, Bradley and Harry Sherman (Karl Malden) are at the airport, seeing off Tatiana (Natalie Wood) and Dubov (Brian Keith). Tatiana kisses Bradley. As she boards the plane, Dubov says to her in Russian, "I think you'll come back one day." Tatiana replies in Russian, "Perhaps." Yes. 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