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As Empty as Space Itself
This is a typical Bruckheimer movie: expensive, dumbed-down, busy and noisy, and as forgettable as a bad joke. I really give it 1-1/2 stars, and that is only for the fortune's worth of production values wasted on this tripe.

To say it is peopled with comic book characters is an insult to comic book writers everywhere. Bruce Willis and a bunch of sluggos join NASA to save the world from a giant asteroid. In the hands of someone like James Cameron this might have worked. Cameron has a feel for the down-to-earth expertise of blue collar professionals. Not here. A good cast is wasted with repellant characters and dialogue no actor should be forced to spit out. There isn't a real emotion or scene anywhere in this piece of junk.

This is the worst kind of Hollywood movie. A tremendous amount of money and talent in the service of a trash script. If you want to see a movie with a similar theme done with intelligence and insight, with some real emotion and characters that approximate actual human beings, and excellent special effects that actually service the story, see Deep Impact.

For what it's worth, the DVD surround sound is great and is the only salvation in this 2-1/2 hour excursion in drivel.

Exceptionally well-crafted story line
For me, this is an incredibly difficult movie to review and critique. I feel that the movie did a phenomenal job of developing the story; however, the acting in the movie left something to be desired.

In case someone has not seen the movie, I do not want to give much of the story away. An asteroid, classified as a global killer (a global killer meaning that if it impacts earth, there will be total destruction of life), is on a collision course with earth. NASA comes up with the idea of landing on the asteroid, drilling a hole, and dropping a nuclear weapon in the hole and blowing up the asteroid with the intent of splitting it in two and altering its path so it misses earth.

While it is a simple story, the movie does an exceptional job developing the plot into a 2-hour movie. The movie incorporates a "gloom and doom" plot with a second story of love, romance, and hope. The first plot is about an oil driller and his band of misfits attempting to work with a group of highly educated astronauts and military pilots to drill a hole on the asteroid (and of course the work together as well as Worcestershire sauce and ice cream). The second story line involves one of the oil drillers falling in love with the owners daughter. The relationship reminds me of a terrible "teen-age" relationship with the seemingly perfect love that young people share coupled with a resentful father who seems to not want to lose his daughter.

It is difficult to explain how well the two story lines integrate without ruining the movie for someone who has not seen it. While the plot is superb, the acting in the move is just so-so. I thought the acting of the three headline actors (Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, and Liv Tyler) was weak at best; they had their great moments, but mostly their acting seemed almost emotionless. I did think a couple of the lesser known actors (mainly Michael Clarke Duncan as "Bear" and Peter Stormare as the Russian astronaut) were incredible in this movie.

Personally, due to the overwhelming depressing plot about the end of the earth, I don't think this is a movie I would cuddle with on the couch with a new date. However, I nonetheless think the plot is excellent and I do highly recommend seeing this movie. I give the movie 5 stars for how the movie integrates the two story lines together and develops them into a great plot, not the acting in the movie.

Rednecks in Space...Or, Good Ol' Boys Vs. The Apocolypse!
If you're looking for a sensitive, thoughtful look at humanity facing doomsday, buy 'On the Beach'. If, however, you want to crack a beer, scratch your belly, and hoot and holler, 'Armagedden' is for you!

Bruce Willis, more subdued than usual, leads a band of oil-drilling stereotyped misfits into space to blow up an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. His crew includes a young brash stud (Ben Affleck, proving he quit drama class too soon!) in love with his daughter (Liv Tyler, who must have skipped a LOT of acting classes!), and a wise-cracking psycho (Steve Buscemi, who looks like he spent too much time outside the spacecraft without a spacesuit!)

Heading the support team in Houston is Billy Bob Thornton, who gives the best overall performance in the film, and seems to be enjoying himself immensely in the role!

Don't THINK while watching this, or you'll get in trouble (I loved how NASA has size 50XXXL spacesuits on hand for a couple of the beefier drillers!); just run with it, and enjoy the movie for the spectacle it is! Unlike 'Deep Impact', it doesn't bog itself down in subplots...This is the Wild West in Space, with enough rootin'-tootin' action to fill a dozen Saturday matinees!

Enjoy the show!

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