PlanetQuake (2024)

Director: Monroe Robertson

Starring: Michael Paré, Erica Duke, Phillip Andre Botello, Doug Jeffery

A tectonic shift deep below the Mariana Trench causes a series of ever escalating earthquakes. If a team of leading seismologists fails to stop the disaster, the events will break apart the Earth, resulting in billions of casualties.

When I decided to watch ‘PlanetQuake’ I was in the mood for a ‘bad’ B-movie. In that regard, the movie did not disappoint – which isn’t really saying much.

When a nuclear bomb detonates on the seabed, it causes a series of earthquakes and tsunamis. Now, a group of very knowledgeable people – lead by Dr. Milly Anderson (Erica Duke) – must try to prevent an impending doomsday disaster.

Helping Milly is Peter Houston (Phillip Andre Botello), who knows his way around computers, and her brother Dresden (Doug Jeffery), who used to be in service of the National Security Agency. (Quite a handsome silver daddy, if I dare say!) Together, they devise a bold – and unbelievable – plan to save the planet.

From the acting to the dialogue and the visuals, ‘PlanetQuake’ is definitely a B-movie. The visuals are cheap, but hey, I could see they tried really hard. Not every disaster movie is awarded a big budget. The dialogue wasn’t that great and at times I found they were spoon-feeding the audience with information instead of showing it.

If you don’t set your expectations too high, I’m sure you’ll have a good (enough) time with ‘PlanetQuake’ – even if it is just for a laugh…

Would I watch it again? No.