A prototype for the modern disaster movie. Though the authors are sci-fi guys (I think?), this really isn’t science fiction, but more a straight “what would happen if a comet hit earth” disaster story with a little bit of Lord of the Flies added in. Takes a long time to set everything up but the payoff is pretty entertaining. The writing is as bad as can be expected, but it is not always distractingly bad. I would say that it is more entertaining than Armageddon, but less entertainining than Deep Impact. It would have been better if the authors had gone more sci-fi and used cool machines to save earth, or had aliens ride to earth on the comet.