Meteor should be a solid 1970s disaster movie. Instead, it's horribly scripted and doesn't do any of the things a good disaster movie does – we should be following at least a dozen characters simultaneously and learning about their relationships as we go along. The eponymous disaster in this disaster movie is a series of meteor fragments that strike northern Canada, Switzerland, Hong Kong, and New York. Cool cool. But none of this happens until near to the end of the film, so we don't get much good disaster stuff at all. Instead, we spend most of the movie inside a bunker watching the Soviets and the Americans disagree with one another before they agree to blow up the meteor. In other words, Meteor fails to live up to its generic expectations, and so it is, unfortunately, boring.
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