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Director: Dick Lowry
Actors: Shannen Doherty, Randy Quaid, Gina Gershon, Robert Wagner, James Brolin
Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Category: DVD

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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars

36 reviews
Sales Rank: 9145

Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 169
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

MPN: PLTD44339D
UPC: 096009443399
EAN: 0096009443399
ASIN: B000E97HXA

Theatrical Release Date: November 6, 2005
Release Date: April 4, 2006
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Condition: Used - Good

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
A cataclysmic tale unwinds as a deadly storm ravages the earth and mankind races to discover what is causing the extreme weather and how to stop it as apocalypse draws near. The danger is intense and tangibly realisticyouve never seen disaster of this magnitude! Studio: Platinum Disc Llc Release Date: 10/23/2007 Run time: 169 minutes

Amazon.com
Who doesn't enjoy watching big things fall to pieces? Category 7: The End of the World wreaks havoc on the Eiffel Tower, Mt. Rushmore, the Pyramids, and a midwestern trailer park, among other things. More or less a sequel to Category 6: Day of Destruction (presumably the latest in a series that began with Category 1: Don't Forget Your Umbrella), Category 7 offers the reassuring sight of Gina Gershon, skilled with disasters like Showgirls, taking control of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Confronted with city-destroying weather, she calls in rebel meteorologist Ross Duffy (Cameron Daddo, star of such classics as Pterodactyl and Anthrax), who runs the Extreme Weather Lab and harbors theories that threaten the political status quo. Ross brings in Tommy Tornado (Randy Quaid, the sole returning actor from Category 6), Faith Clavell (Shannen Doherty, Charmed), and Col. Mike Davis (Tom Skerritt, Alien) to gather data...which isn't the most dramatic of activities (even when it involves souped-up cars and superjets), so the movie adds a subplot about a religious zealot (Nicholas Lea, The X-Files) who wants to unleash the plagues of Egypt so that everyone will realize it's the End of Days. What does it all add up to? A lot of over-the-top hooey (and that's not including the assorted family turmoils), but pretty entertaining nonetheless. It's like a lesser Michael Crichton novel: Take an inflammatory vaguely scientific premise, add two-dimensional characters, cheesy but spectacular effects, and a full-throttle if nonsensical plot, and presto! Over three hours of silly yet utterly watchable television. For added fun, drink a shot every time one character tells another "You're the most important person on the planet right now." --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews: Read 31 more reviews...

1 out of 5 stars

PURE GARBAGE!! December 3, 2008
This movie is absolutely PURE GARBAGE. Horrible in every respect. Do not waste your money on this and certainly do not waste your time on this joke of a movie. The idea that the thermal footprint of a city can reach the mesosphere is hilarious. Not only is the plot completely stupid, but the acting is some of the worst I've seen.
And, who was the spastic camera man? Terrible, terrible, terrible!!! I am giving a one star rating only because I cannot give it a zero or for that matter a negative 5.

1 out of 5 stars

What a stinker October 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I'll preface my review by saying that I generally like to indulge in the fantasy of disaster films. Without doubt, though, this is the worst movie I have ever attempted to watch. After watching the first fifteen minutes I assumed it was going to be a comedy or a spoof and sat in stunned amazement for another 20 minutes before getting the disc out of my player and throwing it in the trash. Besides the premise being laughably silly, the writing and acting are both deplorable. How do these things get made? It's unbelievable that a genuine producer actually read the script for this dog and decided to put money behind it. Imagine Al Gore and George Soros coming up with the most preposterous weather-related doomsday idea they could dream up, teaming up with the worst screenplay writer in the history of Hollywood, then recruiting the least skilled actors they could find in the unemployment line, putting them all together and adding some computerized special effects after directing the production themselves and you have Category 7. Movies this bad should come with a warning label that says "take a good whiff before buying". Horrible, just horrible.

4 out of 5 stars

Movie review October 3, 2008
The usual catastrophic film! Blu-ray made it more palatable, but more expensive too. If you like these films, you will like this one too. If not....(?) Personally, I don't mind any type of sci-fi flick, so I will continue to purchase them--although maybe I will not buy Blu-rays to save on costs.

1 out of 5 stars

Category 7: End of the world - should be End the Movie! September 7, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

This has to be the biggest waste of Blue Ray technology yet. The acting was bad - the visuals were bad - the story was bad - need I say more!

1 out of 5 stars

Retarded September 3, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

How do studios manage to get the money for this type of drivel? Besides the bad acting and writing, the worst part for me was the insulting of our intelligence by making these awfully idiotic exaggerations that only a simpleton would accept.

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