Solar Attack (aka Solar Strike) (2005)

The Sun is erupting and sending CMEs (Coronal Mass Ejections) towards Earth. Initially these solar showers take out communications satellites, then they start destroying cities, then small countries (eg New Zealand), and the prediction is that the methane in the atmosphere will ignite, burning up all the oxygen and end life on Earth. Mark Dacascos (playing Dr Lucas Foster, a billionaire industrialist) may have a radical solution.

A world threatening diaster. An environmental message. A fictitious government department (SNEL, Solar and Near Earth Laboratory, with a director who refuses to believe the hero). A black president (Lou Gosset Jr). American and Russia on the verge of starting a nuclear war. What more could you want?

World ending disaster movies are a recurring theme in Hollywood (When Worlds Collide, Deep Impact, Armageddon, The Day After Tomorrow, etc), and they may have had bigger budgets, but they didn’t have Mark Dacascos (I Am Omega). Okay, so this movie pretty tame, and they can’t afford to show much of the destruction, but that doesn’t mean I can’t like it (even if the story is reminiscent of other movies, especially Solar Crisis, Sunshine, and Supernova).