Impressive visuals are hardly worth mentioning, since it's bad effects, not good ones, that are exceptions to the rule. In the acting category, James Spader and Angela Bassett, two capable performers, deserve credit for speaking so much lame dialogue with a degree of conviction. Robert Forster, whose recent comeback began in Jackie Brown , is accorded so little screen time that it's easy to forget he has a part. Often, it can be argued that there's the kernel of a good story buried somewhere in a bad screenplay. While potential might exist in the tale of a star going supernova, that premise isn't in the same galaxy as the one embraced by this movie.
Supernova deserves to vanish into a black hole.