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Armageddon (1998)
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Will Patton, Steve Buscemi, Michael Clarke Duncan.
Running Time: 151 minutes.
Rated PG-13 for violence and some language.

"Armageddon" opens with a NASA spacecraft being torn apart by numerous small asteroids, destroying the ship and killing all of the inhabitants. Large cities across the country are then bombarded with meteors, causing NASA to investigate the strange phenomenom. They conclude that a massive, mother asteroid the size of Texas is on course to directly hit the planet Earth, killing all civilization and life as they know it.

NASA excecutive director Dan Truman (Thornton) decides that the best way to defend the world against this devastating threat is to hire a group of oil diggers (?) and actually send them onto the meteor (?) in order to plant an explosive inside the middle of it (?) so it can be destroyed before it makes contact. Bruce Willis stars in an adequate performance as the leader of the ragtag team of riggers, taking his team (which includes daughter Tyler and her lover Affleck) to the core of the planet's brink of elimination. While the story is so farfetched and ridiculous to be that realistic, fine performances throughout coupled with some hilarious, quirky dialogue saves this film from being a run-of-the-mill special effects guru blockbuster.

Superb special effects, riveting and off-the-wall cinematography created by the one-and-only director Michael Bay ("The Rock"), a fantastic musical score featuring the Aerosmith great, "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing", and a touching, powerful ending. Fun, enjoyable; this rock-em, sock-em roller-coaster of a film is what summer movie-going is all about--even if its on DVD.

Bruce Willis saves the earth
When a meteor the size of Texas heads directly for earth, guaranteeing global destruction all that can be said is: "Cool." ARMAGEDDON through advertising was couched as an important film. If you fell for that, this will be one of the most annoying films you've ever sat through. But, if you approach the film as a mindless adventure, you'll have a umm... Blast.

The only hope for civilization is to blow-up the meteor before it pummels the planet. So, they quickly train oil rig "drillers" to be astronauts and send them on up. Why they didn't train astronauts to be drillers is beyond reason. At times, the sun shines all around the globe. Within minutes of a Space Shuttle explosion, people are reading about the explosion in a newspaper. In fact, much of the story is void of logic and it won't stand up for scrutiny. But, that doesn't need to impede on the fun. This requires an extreme suspension of disbelief.

So, we go along with the Dirty Dozen make-up as Bruce Willis handpicks Ben Affleck, Owen Wilson, Steve Buscemi and Michael Clarke Duncan to help save the world. Their characters are broad and fun. Add in Billy Bob Thornton who adds respectability as the head of NASA. This is an action film with 1 dimensional characterization. Loud music and quick cut editing wallpaper the film, almost to the point of annoyance. That is the intention.

ARMAGEDDON came out the same year as another meteor flick, DEEP IMPACT. While that one is slightly more plausible, it was rather boring with an extremely shallow and uninteresting female lead. This is the lesser of two evils.

The Criterion DVD offers great sound and video and an energetic audio commentary featuring Director Michael Bay, and stars Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck. There is also a making of documentary as well as a priceless but vulgar gag reel. Within you can see SLING BLADE's Karl as the leader of NASA.

Awful Garbage...
Watching "armagedon" was like watching "The Right Stuff" dumbed down for an audience of subhumans.

Bruce Willis ought to be condemned to living out his life in a garbage can for having had anything to do with this rubbish.

I guess if you believe that it'd be easier to train twelve roughnecks to be astronauts than it would be to train twelve astronauts to be oil riggers, then maybe you'll be stupid enough to accept the premise of this peice of unadulterated drivel.

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