Category 7: The End of the World [Blu-ray] | ![Category 7: The End of the World [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bGKP9mVOL._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Dick Lowry
Actors: Gina Gershon, Shannen Doherty, Robert Wagner, Randy Quaid, Tom Skerritt
Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Format: Color, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 169 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 11
UPC: 096009000110
EAN: 0096009000110
ASIN: B0013DI4K6
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Release Date: April 1, 2008
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Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 8-APR-2008
Media Type: Blu-Ray
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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
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 Too bad the rating doesn't include negative stars February 3, 2010
D. Ruhlman (PA United States)
The whole movie is made from stage scenes, a few plastic models and all action destruction scenes were poorly made digital scenes. The movie content is the worst I have seen in any disaster film and picture quality is clearly not blu ray.
The film (Aftershock, earthquake in new york) is a great example of realistic looking film production, that on a star scale would rate 10 if the Catagory 7 was rated a Negative 10. Don't waste your time or rental money on this loser.
 Category 7 November 7, 2009
Shellia Adams (cullman alabama)
This is one of my favorite movies. Received it with no problems with it. Would buy from vendor again
Category 7 is a disaster best avoided October 19, 2009
RJ Patton (Portland, OR United States)
This made for TV movie should have never been made. If it had not been a made for TV movie it would have been a category 7 disaster at the box office. With the exception of Robert Wagner, the scting is so pathetic it makes you want to laugh. Washed up Randy Quaid is laughable in his role as a storm chaser. He starts out the movie in the hospital in traction with both legs and both arms in full casts and in a HALO device. The very next day he is out of the hospital with no casts and no limp. How unrealistic is that? The movie goes downhill from there. Also, what's with the blurry double images and the spinning around the room camera shots? It's so bad it makes you want to puke.
Category 7 September 3, 2009
Virginia M. Bradford
My grand daugher wanted this DVD and watched it over and over. Thanks for prompt service.
 A four hour TV miniseries that should have never seen hour two August 12, 2009
Jason (Backwater, Alabama)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Disjointed, sloppy, and like the storms of the story, chaotic. There are far too many scene discontinuities, incomprehensible and underdeveloped story additions, and simply atrocious special effects - some of the worst ever filmed - to keep this film above average. Which is a shame considering the fairly impressive cast that includes Gina Gershon, Tom Skerritt, Kenneth Walsh, Shannen Doherty, Robert Wagner, and the always entertaining Randy Quaid.
Basically, a professor who is not Dennis Quaid has predictions about storms destroying the world. He's widely disregarded by smug politicians. Massive hurricanes collide to produce the heretofore unseen. Storm chasers who are not Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton shoot rockets into city-destroying twisters to collect data. Tom Skerritt mails it in as a jet fighter pilot who flies into tornadoes; it's essentially his role from Top Gun, but older. Meanwhile, Gina Gershon is completely overwhelmed by the role and responsibilities of FEMA director Judith Carr.
Perhaps the best way to describe this movie is with the sad tale of Kenneth Walsh. In The Day After Tomorrow he is the Vice President and ignored advice that could have saved millions of lives; in this movie he's Chief of Staff, and he ignored the advice again. `Nuf said.
In every possible way this movie is a generic rip-off, and there are even a few poorly done reenactments from scenes in the original; except, in this one, the Statue of Liberty is plastic and the flipping cars are of the Matchbox variety. Some of the hurricane footage is less believable than footage from the Wizard of Oz. To make matters worse, some stock footage is blatantly used twice, a slap in the face to any intelligent viewer. I'm embarrassed for some of the quality actors no doubt wishing this weren't on their resume.
Crack-pot climatology - poorly executed plagiarism from The Day After Tomorrow (there's even a token Asian assistant not named Tamlyn Tomita) - combined with an abhorrent Armageddon angle and an attack on FEMA serves as nothing more than a hit piece, a horribly transparent collection of Hollywood political agendas masquerading as legitimate plotlines. This garbage, at well over two hours, may as well have been directed by a long-winded, less obese version of Michael Moore.
At one point an actor asks another if they are "doomed to mediocrity." The question is rhetorical.
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