MEGAFAULT, a TV movie disaster flick, opens with the words that no viewer should ever witness: A SyFy Channel presentation of an Asylum movie. Yep, two of the dumbest purveyors of no-budget trash have teamed up to make an earthquake-themed disaster flick, so what could go wrong?The answer is everything and nothing. This is very much par for the course for such a movie: it's a film without much plot or indeed characterisation, one which gets by instead on a series of repetitive CGI effects of faults and cracks tearing through the ground, swallowing buildings and vehicles. When this happens for the umpteenth time you know that the writers were really struggling to think up anything fresh with this one.Cast-wise, we get Brittany Murphy as the intrepid seismologist heroine; this was one of her last roles before her untimely death and she's not looking at all healthy. Speaking of death, we're treated to another actor with a dead career: Eriq La Salle, formerly of TV's E.R., now treading water in a B-movie swamp. Bruce Davison appears too, contributing yet another adviser type part; I guess he never gets tired of showing up in such productions.The CGI effects are a little better than those found in some other Asylum productions, but they're hardly the stuff of greatness either. Not much really happens during the storyline, and there's never much of a sense of danger, just characters reacting to the latest CGI event taking place in front of them. It's not much fun.

I was perusing the remote guide when I saw that the film starred Brittany Murphy. I had not seen any of her films for a long time and was curious to see why she would have agreed to this bomb.She looked alarmingly strange. Her face had altered significantly. Especially her eyes. I was so taken aback by her appearance, I checked info to find out the year the movie was released then looked up her bio to find out the year she had died. The same year! Sadly, something was clearly amiss with this talented young woman. All the life had drained from her appearance. Her acting was wooden and forced. Nothing seemed natural about her. Something was very wrong with her. Poor thing.The movie was just awful. The dialog insipid, the acting from all members of the cast, embarrassing. But I watched anyway with morbid curiosity to see if Brittany's demeanor would change from beginning/middle/end.

Shocking acting to a dull and predictable plot with truly appalling special effects. Were they trying to make the worst move ever? I didn't know anyone did special effects this bad any more; especially surprising when you consider what Monsters just achieved on a low budget with a laptop.I watched Megafault having enjoyed Eriq La Salle in ER. It is very sad to see him in such a poor movie.Sometimes movies are so bad they can be funny, but this one insists on taking itself seriously.At least my wife and I enjoyed trying to outdo each other in describing who terrible Megafault was, but it would have been better to just turn it off.

I have no other words for this film. Nothing special about the effects either. They must have had a budget of at least $100 dollars and it really shows. With a cast of Z list actors that I have never heard of and hope to never see again there is nothing I find that is good about this movie, oh maybe there is, the end when I got to turn the TV off. I have never commented on a movie on here before but after watching this abomination I felt compelled to sign up warn others. I find it such a shame that this was one of the last movies that Brittany Murphy was in as I am sure she will be remembered for this and not her other fantastic movies.