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SyFy channel proudly announced in its trailers, "Goodbye West Coast! So long, East Coast." That must be in Mega-Fault II; it certainly didn't happen in this film. The idea for the film was ambitious and may have seemed good on paper, but with a mega-budget of about 25 bucks, very little ever got to the screen.

Will somebody please explain to the director that earthquake faults do not chase people? Yet if a truck is in motion with a lead character in this film, look around: here comes a fissure. Also, it will somehow make phony looking explosions (probably red smoke bombs) go off next to the truck, in obviously looped footage.

I liked the actors; they try, but the script gives them nothing to work with. Most of the characters look and act ridiculous. Maybe the director told the cast "all the goofs will be fixed in post production." He lied. All they did in the post-op was add some google map pictures, and some shaky graphics. The film attempts to wrap the story around the seismologist and demolition expert's friendship. That's alright as far as it goes, but the film spends so much time developing that subplot, that it forgets all about a crisis that is possibly killing millions of people. The command center where the senior seismologist guy hangs out is a joke; all anybody does is report the fault's progress to the audience. And what the heck was with that satellite? Something about starting quakes to stop a quake? Lol. It looked like it was shooting some kind of freeze ray. I'm not sure if you can freeze an earthquake.

The brief "victims in Wyoming" scene could have been a single shining moment for the film, but they even wasted that. It's laughably silly in spite of the gruesome thing that happens. The final climactic scene is just dull and stupid, too.

After Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus and Mega Fault, what can possibly be next for SyFy? Invasion of the Mega Aliens? Night of the Mega Zombies? Mega Smurfs go to the Giant Mega-Store?

I hate rubbishing peoples work. But.... This film looks great on the packaging, sounds like a great idea - A Mega Fault to rip the world apart. Now, lets get one definition out the way "World - anywhere within the USA" Explosions set off a seismic event triggering earthquakes big enough to rip a gash in the USA. No one else in the world feels it at all; this gap can be seen from space and the rest of the world carry on like nothing happening? Repetition of scenes - I watched it and thought "hang on, I've just seen that". I blinked once and missed the plot, blinked again and missed any form of character development. Didn't have a clue who they were (only the old bloke being in V back in the 80's) didn't know what they were doing and why. There was no effects on how this event changed the rest of the world, er sorry, USA and no sign of a president.

I don't think I'll include this on the Wet Sunday list and I beg of all of you who do watch this, Don't make it an impression you have of the late Brittney Murphys work.

I would rather watch mold grow in a petri dish.

Physics and common sense aside, this movie just plain sucks. It is boring, mediocre on all levels, and hard to follow. I think it's hard to follow because it's just so boring. First there's a "mega fault" opening up over half the country (although not big enough to do anything cool like swallow a whole city), and eventually they freeze it. Then suddenly it bubbles with lava. Whatever.

The actors are L-A-M-E. The CGI is even worse. There's one scene near the beginning where a car falls into a sinkhole, but you see the concrete through the car. It's just dreadful.

And it may not be common knowledge, but you can't just flip a switch and turn on a helicopter like you do a car. They do that a lot in this movie... just turn it on and take off in a matter of seconds. Not possible in real life.

I could go on and on about the errors of this movie, but it's SyFy, so why bother? As usual, don't waste your time. There is no cool monster, no comic relief, no special effects worth seeing, nada. There is absolutely nothing redeemable about this flick whatsoever. There is not one moment where you say, "Yeah, the movie sucks overall, but that one part is awesome!" Nothing. Not even "so bad it's good"... it's just ALL BAD.

Yes, this contains spoilers, but believe me, this movie was already ruined when the script was written. I feel bad for writing this right after Brittany Murphy died, but it is just such an abortion of a movie that I had to.

First, like many stated before, the acting is terrible. Brittany Murphy is 100% unbelievable in this role. Terribly unbelievable. I think Pee-Wee Herman, in full character, could have played the part and been more believable. At least the movie would have been amusing (other than laughable at how bad it was). Most all of the other actors were dry and unbelievable, especially the people in the 'command center' (or whatever you would call that poor excuse of a set). I literally burst into laughter whenever they would talk.

I seriously could have mistaken this movie for a comedy. I had tears streaming down my face while I was watching it, I was laughing so hard. Everything from the plot, the characters, and the special effects were laughable. Worse than anything I have seen in a long time, or even ever.

There are so many holes in the story, I don't even know where to begin. I do like when they show Wyoming, there are fires going on all around everyone, and they are just casually walking around like there's nothing out of the ordinary, until they unrealistically burst into flames. The 'fuel truck' part is so laughable I don't even know where to begin.

Eriq LaSalle driving the Jeep around setting off the explosions was hilarious. They were talking about setting off such large explosions that they were going to create another Grand Canyon, but all of the explosions were pathetic little charges they set off. You couldn't even make a kiddie pool out of those holes, let alone another Grand Canyon. Brittany Murphy asks Eriq LaSalle how many more explosions he had to set off, and he said 15 more, yet he painfully drove around like a moron for another 20 minutes setting off dozens and dozens more tiny little explosions, until he fell into the hole, at which point I laughed hysterically.

The real kicker is when Brittany Murphy goes back to her beat up shack (I would think a world renowned expert on seismology could afford something a little nicer), only to find the house somehow missing. Not only did the earthquake shake the house down, but someone in the meantime must have came and took all the pieces of the house with them, and left just a hole there. Brittany Murphy cries and cries, and then, as expected, from out of nowhere, her husband and kid walk up. Really? I mean, really? It would have been more believable if Spock would have beamed them down.

Unless you really, really, really enjoy laughing at bad movies, don't watch this. If you do enjoy painfully bad movies, then this one will keep you in stitches the entire time. I know it did for me!

I actually registered at IMDb today so I could "discuss" this piece of dreck. Others have touched on it. I agree, helicopters cannot take off from a cold start. The Appalachians are now as big as the Rockies? Chasing faults as they appear? That's worse than speeding away from pyroclastic flows and massive explosions.

Creating a new Grand Canyon with some explosives? I don't care how many tons you've got. Where is all that dirt and rock gonna go? It goes down? Is the earth hollow? Nothing blasts up? I guess the only thing that blasts upward is shrapnel from gas pipelines that can take down a C-130 by clipping its wing. Amazing how those air force pilots can't land to save themselves but the dad and little girl on board are only shaken up.

Shall I go on? LASER satellites that shoot cold down to the ground to freeze a rupturing fault. Uh, yeah, sure, why not? And of course, the Osprey with the botoxed star whose lips remind me of one of those old "Clutch Cargo" cartoons, gets its tail caught in the "cold beam" while rescuing the only people driving an RV in the entire Midwest and nearly crashes, but it can't because SHE is on board.

And of course, the fault has caused all the airport control towers and beacons to go down so all the airplanes are "flying blind"!!! Dang, I guess that shrapnel has taken out the GPS satellite system too, and the pilots can't look out their windows!! You know the ice beam is not going to work because the movie is only half over, so what can be more exciting? YES!!! OF COURSE!!! The fault goes north heading for the super volcano caldera under Yellowstone and is going to set it off causing the dreaded "mass extinction". Earth is DOOMED. And this leads to the funniest bit in the movie. We see shoe soles of the pedestrians melting to the asphalt and then their feet, hands and heads all erupt in CGI flames!! WOOT! That right their earns the one star I am forced to give this film.

I'm done now although I wonder how Eriq LaSalle got roped into this. Is he really that hard up? Is his little brother one of the producers? He looked dazed and confused, he certainly didn't have to put much effort into it.

SyFy : Imagine: Dreck!

If you love low budget disaster movies you'll love this!!

Boomer deserved better though :(

Eriq LaSalle and the late (in this movie, not-so)great Brittany Murphy should have run away...not from the MegaFault, but this MegaAWEFUL script. From watching peoples' heads spontaneously combust as they are walking down the street(presumably from the underground volcano) to the folks walking briskly after total strangers that grabbed their children from the family RV and ran to the Osprey, the overdramatically spoken lines and the generic special effects scream for help. LaSalle's acting was good for what he was given and Murphy's presence shows that she was physically ill not too long before her December 2009 death, as she was so gaunt in the opening sequence that she was unrecognizable. The woman's legs had a gap between them that goes all the way up, which is continually emphasized by the bad camera angles. Murphy's bad scripting goes on to show awkwardness with her lines in scenes dealing with the military. This role was not what I would have expected from a talented actress. All in all, this was a sad waste of money and Hollywood acting talent and a horrible way to remember such a talented young woman.

First, producers who have never left the LA basin need to hire people who have some idea of American geography. West Virginia? No way. Snow-capped, rocky crags there, in a movie purportedly about geology? Please. Then, continuing in West Virginia, large open flat plains. No, sir. It's outside Davenport, Iowa. The acting is sub par, even for a low budget SyFy movie. For instance, for a world renowned Ph.D. who is speaking on a subject with which she is intimately familiar to use 3x5 cards in her short speech is ridiculous. After watching the acting for ten minutes you realize that she is actually reading her lines off the cards. This movie has to be as painful to watch for real seismologists, as "Twister" was for real meteorologists, and "Hunt for Red October" was for anyone who speaks Russian or served on a real nuclear submarine.

Passenger: "Stop the truck!" Truck driver: "I can't. I've got an earthquake on my tail!". Good writing is the foundation of quality cinema. That line perfectly sums up Megafault. It stars the Late Brittney Murphy as Dr. Amy Lane, World Renown Seismologist. Bulls Eye casting . Though rumor has it Brittney Spears was the first choice but she was bald at the time which just didn't seem right. Eric LaSalle plays Boomer. A man who since childhood was a gifted blower upper. Though maybe a bit short on geography and physics. Dr. Lane: "We would have to move the Grand Canyon." Boomer: "Why can't we?" And to fill the role of mature authority figure and mentor, Bruce Davison. Fresh off his record setting run as Willy Lohman in Death of a Salesmen at Larry's Dinner Theater and All you can eat truck stop buffet on route 38, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Pure casting brilliance. Throw in budget busting special effects by the famed CGI creator that brought you such hits as Pong and Space Invaders and you have it all. Acting, writing and a visual experience that can only be described as astounding. As a footnote, kudos to Megafault for showing once and for all that earthquake faults do indeed chase after moving vehicles.

And I must mention Director David Michael Latt whose deft touch was responsible for this quality production. A budding genius who has brought such classics to the screen as 'Jane White is Sick and Twisted' and 'The 18 Year Old Virgin' (Producer) . Most notably the true 2005 gem, War of the Worlds. Not the hack version thrown on the screen by that Spielberg character. I can only give this classic my highest recommendation. "That, Mr. Cavett, is entertainment!"

The geography was wrong everywhere in this film! W. VA mountains don't look craggy and snow capped. Lexington, KY doesn't have a river running through it much less a huge granary. The holographic map showing the quake running across the US has the quake going through KY up north around Covington near the Ohio border. Lexington is in the center of the state! The acting was dry and at times annoying. The idea was good, but the script was horrible. CGI wasn't too horribly bad, but what was up with those explosions following the gas tanker while the fault chased them down the road? What really annoyed me were the people catching on fire in the small Wyoming (?) town from the head-up? Not to mention near the ending, when the explosions/faults are chasing Boomer in his Jeep, the large bodies of water nearby remain dead calm – not so much as a ripple. This film was an insult to any intelligent person!