Now I'm not saying its 2012 I have seen worse movies on the sci-fi channel. A likable cast of B & D list actors, some moments of unintended hilarity, and decent special FX, make this a popcorn movie for the whole family. The beginning made me laugh this dude on a bike not gonna giveaway anything there you will judge for yourself. Now some reviewers have talked about the bad science the over the top this and that but I think any film like this we suspend one part of belief just to watch and enjoy none of these type films is totally plausible so putting that aside is important, like seriously as good as 2012, or Day after Tomorrow were you have to admit they were no more realistic just bigger budget. I thought this was better than Earthquake with Charleton Heston.

Yeah OK not the best movie ever made but what do you expect? It was a TV movie with the budget to match. The acting was not great but when you don't have the best talent to start with you aren't going to have an Oscar or in this case an Emmy worthy performance. All that being said it was good for what it was. It was even better than some of your "blockbusters". Do I think the events in the movie could happen in real life? Maybe. Do I think they would happen just like that? Absolutely not. But it's a good way to kill a couple hours and enjoy yourself. No harm no foul. If the movie had a bigger budget and maybe some better talent in it who knows might be the best movie ever made or at least in the conversation.

i am not here to take or make the mistake regarding MARTIAL LAW ...OR FEDERAL LAW but all i want to say is that i liked this movie very much.i don't care what other thinks about the movie but i can't find any thing stupid about the movie from the very beginning.i don't know why people watch movie , just for the entertainment or passing their view to others that.. look gentleman, i have seen this movie and i have collected some errors for you so that u be careful before make your mind to watch it.i have liked the graphics regarding collapse aftermath the earth quack or during it specially during the last 45 minute , i can assure u that u never gonna take your fat ass off the seat.sorry if hart some 1....!!!!

10.5 (2004) BOMB (out of 4)An X-Games biker is riding around Seattle when a massive 7.2 earthquake hits bringing all the buildings down around him. This here gets the attention of the President of the United States (Beau Bridges) who turns this case over to a friend who works for FEMA (Fred Ward). On another part of the West Coast an earthquake expert (Kim Delaney) has a theory that more earthquakes are going to follow due to something dealing with the plates but she also believes a nuclear blast could bring the plates together and stop future quakes. Soon another quake hits Northern California and soon one hits San Francisco and it appears the next quake will his Los Angeles, which would mean no more bad movies from Hollywood. Actually, it means this quake is the big one and the West Coast is going to fall in the ocean. Whatever….While Earthquake was a bad movie that was made entertaining due to how bad it was, 10.5 on the other hand is just an incredibly bad film that doesn't have any redeeming factors. I'm a sucker for this disaster flicks but this one here grows tiresome before the opening credits are over and the bad thing is that we've still got over two and a half hours to go. Everything from the acting to the directing to the incredibly bad special effects are worthless making this an incredibly hard film to get through. In fact, by the time part two starts I'm sure most people watching would rather be experiencing a real 10.5. The key to every disaster film ever made are the characters who we are supposed to cheer and root on and hope they don't fall victim to Mother Nature but that's not the case here. In fact, I kept hoping most of our main cast would fall victim because that would mean we were closer to the finish. Throughout disaster film history we always get stereotypes that are usually so incredibly stupid that we laugh at them and we get the same type of thing here minus the laughs. We get the typical melodrama, which includes and father and son struggling after the mothers death, a father and daughter trying to come together and a husband and wife who are the verge of a divorce. Thankfully, even though fifty million people are evacuating the city they are all able to find one another to make up before the quake hits.The characters are so overwrought and obnoxious that you can't really cheer for them and the worst one has to be the beautiful daughter who hates her father but the quake brings them together. I'm not going to bother mentioning the actresses name but lets just say her acting ability is below the level of Tor Johnson of Ed Wood fame. Beau Bridges usually delivers a decent performance but it's clear he was just cashing a paycheck here. Seeing him as President of the United States is a joke in itself and he does nothing with the role making us believe he really is the leader of this country. Kim Delaney comes off very annoying and doesn't make a good lead actress. The film's one saving grace is Fred Ward who is interesting even if he's just sleeping. He also gets the film's only well made scene where he has a final talk with his son. I think people are attracted to disaster movies for the same reason they can't help avoid looking at a car wreck just in case they are able to see a body lying in the road. They watch these films because they want to see disaster and the hopes of a few people beating the odds of survival. The special effects in the film are all CGI and do they look incredibly awful and fake. I'm sorry but CGI is the evil creation of Satan and the lack of imagination really shows this here. And please, don't give me the fact that these scenes couldn't have been done without the CGI effects. Check out San Francisco or Earthquake and you'll see that effects were being done before CGI and they also contained a bit of imagination, which is very important. Just take a look at the scene where the Golden Gate Bridge collapses. Check out the scene where the earth is breaking apart and following a train. Tremors had better ground breaking scenes and it didn't take a computer to create them.With this disaster film we also get a post 9/11 speech that is so forced that you can't help but role your eyes. There are various political statements made throughout the film and they all come off fake and it's clear the director is just trying to make this film be something better than it actually is. This film shows the worst of America in the fact that no imagination went into it and the director seems to think that everyone watching would fall for the various tricks and stupidity that is put on the screen. How a film like this could turn out this bad is beyond me but 10.5 is without a doubt the worst disaster film ever made, which is saying a lot considering this genre gave us duds like The Swarm and When Time Ran Out.