I don't mind it being a bad movie, but wasting those better-than-ecpectedvsoecial effects and Heston and Balance on it? unpardonable!

A massive solar flare will incinerate Earth, cremating all life within it. Humanity has a plan: detonate an anti-matter bomb in the area of the sun where the flare will develop so that it releases early --- and in a different direction. But for some ungodly irrational and completely unmotivated reason the mega-corporation IXL sabotages the mission. They reprogram the bio-engineered woman who is in charge of the systems of the ship that is delivering the bomb. She causes a multitude of system failures, causing the death of multiple crewmen. In the end, she manages to defeat her programming through sheer strength of grief, and she flies the bomb personally for the last stretch from the ship to the sun to its detonation (and her with it). Because this plot was not long enough to take up two hours, there is a completely unrelated side plot of a young cadet getting lost in the dessert as his admiral grandfather and IXL race to find him, his grandfather to save him, IXL to kill him. The main premise for this film is quite inventive and very ambitious. But otherwise the film is simply bad. Bio-engineered humans are still humans --- and therefore they cannot be reprogrammed like robots. But if they could be reprogrammed like robots, extreme grief would not snap them out of it. And what is it with the world of films that makes people fall in love in 5 minutes? The film did have an interesting idea with a smart AI bomb, but in the end it played absolutely no part in the plot, so it may as well not have been part of the film at all. And the AI bomb is not alone. Completely vacuous extraneous characters are introduced throughout the film with no plot payoff at all just to take up screen time. All in all, a rambling and meandering film with a good premise and a bad plot.

Solar Crisis (1992) - ❤6 This is a fairly standard B-Movie 90's style. The SFX by today's standards look pretty laughable but oddly right. How I rate: 1-3 ❤ = seriously! don't waste your time 4-6 ❤ = you may or may not enjoy this 7-8 ❤ = I expect you will like this too 9-10 ❤ = movies and TV shows I really love!