i pick this title up from a friend who have it sit in his exhaustive dvd or video or laserdisc collection and so luckily i do not personally have to pay for it . i have an inkling that it would be a bad film and but i know what a truly bad film be after watch great like child shouldn not play with dead thing and the incredibly strange creature who stop live and become mixed up zombie and and now there be truly nothing that faze me unless it be astoundingly bad . solar crisis be bad and but it doesn not reach that sweet spot of absolute pain that some movie be at . anyway and the general plot be that the sun be about to unleash a huge solar flare towards the earth that will essentially destroy it . in order to counter act this imminent threat and humanity have assemble a spaceship and crew whose duty it be to fire an antimatter bomb ( which the opening describe a the big explosive ever ) into the sun and which through some convoluted sci fi logic will cause the flare to shoot out at a different angle and leave earth unharmed . never mind that what i have just describe to you sound like a bad episode of the original star trek . even with an ensemble cast ( charlton heston and peter boyle and and jack palance ) and solar crisis can barely manage that level of mediocrity and thanks to a plot that start simple and yet become increasingly nonsensical a time wear on . the crown achievement of this debacle of a movie be the addition of a villain character ( play by boyle ) who insist on sabotage the mission . through mean that be never explain and he send an evil minion with an embarrassingly bad haircut to exercise some sort of vague electronic mind control over the space crew genetically engineer scientist and play by female lead annabel schofield . why be he sabotage the mission . because by his moronic viewpoint and he believe the flare would not happen and that when it doesn not and he will become fabulously wealthy because he have dig his evil claw into the stock market . in effect and you have a villain with the most absurdly stupid motivation imaginable . the film plot become amazingly convolute and develop very slowly and in time tap the use of character who have only vague or uselessly brief role in the storyline . i could sit here and explain in detail precisely what happen to demonstrate the sheer inability of the screenwriter to make a plot that actually click or hold your attention and but i be sit here write this review on microsoft word and i know for a fact that this would take three page and and i would only succeed in lose your interest . but then again and you would probably get the same effect from watch the film . anyway and the film be miserably bogged down with exceedingly poor dialogue . imagine if all that ever happen on the star trek enterprise be that the character spew sci fi jargon back and forth at each other . yes and i know and they already do that and but imagine if that all they do and and that they use say jargon to set up vague and near nonsensical scene that produce no excitement and tension and or interest in the viewer whatsoever . this be best exemplify at the point when a character in a zero g environment screw a bolt back onto a metal box before proceed to cry in agony for a couple of minute before suddenly explode . the script allude previously to the character risk an explosion and but doesn not bother to give any solid answer a to why or how this occur and nor why he can not really escape . in totality and you have a sorry cross between the bizarre and the laughable . then we have several scene where dramatic build up lead to nothing . jack palance performance be waste on a character that serve only to drive the boy hero ( do not ask ) around the desert and before get rough up and kill by a bunch of suit . on his death bed and palance finally tell our boy hero his last name ( while wear a horrible bruise makeup job that make it look like somebody put a balloon under his eyeball ) and which he keep quiet about before . colonel travis j. richards . the boy repeat it quietly after he expire and give viewer the impression that the name be of some significance later on in the film . perhaps charlton heston grizzle admiral character know him and the plot will advance thereby once his name be repeat . something . anything . nope . sorry . any hope you have will be dash when this moment turn out only to be another of many pathetic and fail attempt at create dramafor a character so flat and hackneyed that it will forever be a stain on palance career and just a those of the rest of the cast be similarly mar . complete the film be a painfully abrupt end feature schofield pilot the bomb into the center of the sun in an effort to redeem her deed while under the villain spell and a climax which feature another of the film considerably well do visual effect sequence that and even for the visibly elaborate care put into them and still always manage to make the film look just as chintzy a it really be . the sad part about this film be the obviously large budget and tragically waste on a stinker of a script and a supporting cast behind boyle and heston and and palance that manage to nail the coffin shut with pure over act . grade represent d .