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Silly but still absolutely brilliant!
The cinematic equivalent of a rollercoaster ride! Of course it's an impossibility to train new astronauts in a week, and especially let them into space with the way they were behaving at NASA, but this is pure Hollywood hokum. And an asteroid heading for Earth can be detected a lot longer than a week away, as was portrayed in DEEP IMPACT. However, despite the dumbness of parts of the storyline, and a sometimes unintentionally hilarious script which resembles a trashy romance novel mixed with a Grade Z 1950s sci-fi movie, thie movie still deserves five stars and DELIVERS! The effects deserve an Oscar, most notably the meteor shower on New York at the start, Paris being levelled by an asteroid fragment(take that you EuroDisney hating Frogs! Ha ha!) and the AWESOME space scenes! The souped-up shuttle idea with additional boosters might be a feasible idea one day as well. But if one was faced with a similar situation - the threat of extinction - what would one do? A lively answer is provided, and this is definitely the 'action comedy' version of DEEP IMPACT. As for the cast, Steve Buscemi rates the funniest with his wisecracking, and Ben Affleck's theory on animal crackers during the love scene with Liv Tyler! The musical soundtrack is also highly rateable, especially the Aerosmith ballad which climbed high in the charts in the UK too. Altogether, if you want action, thrills, explosions, special effects, comedy, romance, and you loved effects-laden movies like INDEPENDENCE DAY and VOLCANO and ALIENS, then this is definitely for you! In my personal view, though, although myself and my wife enjoyed this one, on the whole, DEEP IMPACT is better for its realsitic portrayal of humanity in such a crisis.

"Armageddon" has come!
One of the biggest box office smash hits of 1998, "Armageddon" was a well-deserved box office hit and sometimes one of the most unfairly criticized movies of recent years. I'm surprised at the negative reviews that I've been reading on here and the low rating of 3.3 (as of writing this review) stars. This movie deserves at least a 4.3 on the rating!

Starring Bruce Willis as the disgruntled, often excessively strict drilling expert Harry Stamper, "Armageddon" is a chilling but at the same time, fun film about a giant asteroid around the size of the state of Texas hurtling straight towards earth, threatening to destroy all life and possibly the planet itself in approximately 18 days and mankind, under threat of extinction, looks up to the expert drilling knowledge of Harry Stamper and his crew of grouchy disgruntled drillers to drill a large hole in the asteroid, send a powerful nuke down the hole and blast the asteroid apart by detonating the nuke. It all begins on an oil rig in the middle of the Pacific Ocean or somewhere around there with the outrageous Harry Stamper playing golf against a Greenpeace ship, and the Greenpeace guys ducking for cover to avoid getting hit by the flying golf balls. It's actually quite funny to watch even though I would lean more towards the Greenpeace people and also Harry laughing at and ridiculing them. However the laughs are instantly ended when a team of government officials arrive on Stamper's oil rig and bring him to NASA headquarters to tell him about the crisis of the approaching asteroid.

While Bruce Willis' character Harry Stamper is the main character in the movie, my favorite character is the odd goofball Russian astronaut Lev Andropov (Played by Swedish actor Peter Stormare). His funny personality adds quite a bit to this movie. My other favorite is Rock Hound, with his bumbling and highly eccentric personality and watching him mess up or goof off provides some good laughs. Most of the rest range from good to excellent to downright annoying.

The romance between Grace Stamper (Liv Tyler) and A.J. Frost is pretty contrived and could've been left out but that's just my opinion. Most of the negativities are negated by the pros of this movie. "Armageddon" is an extremely adrenaline-pumping action flick with a highly intense visual assault (in a good way), and a good amount of comic humor occasionally in parts of the movie. Many seem to dismiss this as more Hollywood pap but I beg to differ. "Armageddon" is just plain fun but also it is rather unsettling because the possibility of being hit by a global killer asteroid is always present but also there is the possibility of being able to prevent such a disaster from occurring. It's for these things that to me, makes this movie so awesome yet scary at the same time. No wonder it was a smash hit at the box office. I wouldn't necessarily say that I highly recommend buying this movie but "Armageddon" is definitely worth checking out for those who missed it when it was on the big screen. This is just my opinion but man this movie was a brutal, thrilling ride when seeing it on the big screen and when it came to the small screen, the punch was greatly reduced but still, it's an awesome popcorn movie. Just sit back and enjoy the ride. Doomsday has never sounded like so much fun.

This is so much fun, it's freaky!
Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis) is the man. All go, no quiet is his moto and he always pushes his men too hard. He's in control of a drilling station in the China Sea, hating the Greenpeace campaigns and always yelling to everyone except his best friend, Chick Chappele (Will Patton). That's his life, but all it's about to change when a meteor shower starts to fall to Earth. And this is only a warning of a major meteor to come, as big as Texas, and it will impact on the Pacific Ocean in about 18 days if NASA can't do anything about it.

But NASA has a plan: to launch a couple of shuttles with competent people on board to drill deep enough to set up a nuclear device that will split the rock in two. Fate? Harry Stamper and his crew are to be send. What comes next is pure joy! Especially the training and my favorite character: the russian cosmonaut, Lev Andropov (Peter Stormare).

A very well written story with maybe a ridiculous but yet, fun premise: Country rednecks in outer space, Bruckheimer style. By the way, the score composed by Trevor Rabin is outstanding!

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