Armageddon (1998)

Average rating

(68%)

Starring:	Bruce Willis \| Billy Bob Thornton \| Liv Tyler \| Ben Affleck \| Will Patton \| Steve Buscemi \| Peter Stormare \| Keith David
Director:	Michael Bay
Studio:	TOUCHSTONE HOME VIDEO
Run time:	144 mins
Genres:	Action/Adventure \| Thriller
Languages:	English
Hearing-impaired:	English
Subtitles:	English
Released:	August 20, 2001
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NASA's executive director discovers that the Earth has only eighteen days before it is obliterated by a meteor the size of Texas. He has only one option - to drop a handful of rougheck oil drillers onto the asteroid and get them to drop a nuclear warhead into its core...

Rating of 3 stars out of 5

In light of 2001's Pearl Harbor, this megabucks popcorn-spiller from producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay is revealed to be a witty, postmodern exercise (by comparison anyway). There's a meteor “the size of Texas” heading for Earth — as indeed there was in Deep Impact, released the same year — and it's up to Bruce Willis and his motley oil-drilling gang (“the Wrong Stuff”) to blast off and save us all. In hallmark Bruckheimer style, it's flashy, overwrought and excessive, but there's a knowing irony in the committee-written script and in the performances of Willis, Billy Bob Thornton and Steve Buscemi. The love subplot is a low point but, within such an expert thrill ride, it's not the end of the world.

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16 out of 18 people found the following review helpful:

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Miles Orchard from Cardiff, 19th February, 2004

I absolutely love this film and has to be in my top thirty of all time films. It has everything and keeps you hanging on until the end. I rememebr watching this is in the cinema when it came out and remember having a lump in my throat a few times during the film.

This is a film that has the ability to grab you and not let you go until it's ready to let it's hold on you go. Bruce willis plays a great role but for me the highlight was Steve Buscemi as Rockhound - worth watching the film for him alone.

The music is pure American and includes the awesome ballad by Aerosmith that was a number one hit on release for a number of weeks. The sound is great especially through a 5.1 system and still holds up well 6 years after it's release.

One of the best Action movies in the last 10 years.

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Most recent reviews

2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Lightweight Popcorn Flick

Plainview from from Guildford, 25th June, 2008

This is a very stupid film. However it appeals to some people. This film opens with a scene in which an oil driller practices his golf swing by shooting balls at environmental campaigners. If you think that is hysterically funny there is a chance you might like this film. Personally, I thought it was in quite poor taste. However even then don’t expect anything substantial. The story is mind-numbingly stupid. The action in this film basically consists of a race against a series of countdown timers of one sort or another which is so stupid that it’s difficult to take the action seriously. On top of that, every line of dialogue is so sickly sentimental and clichéd that it makes you feel ill.

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