Armageddon Review
by Pierce Dalton (pierce80 AT aol DOT com)February 27th, 1999
ARMAGEDDON
Reviewed by Pierce Dalton
1 1/2 stars (out of 4)
Armageddon blows.
It a matter of speaking, or course
The comet-disaster flick is a disaster alright.
Directed by Tony Scott (Top Gun), it tells the story about an asteroid the size of Texas caught on a collision course with earth.
And you thought that dinky little comet in Deep Impact was trouble. Jeez.
After a great opening, in which an American spaceship, plus the city of New York, are completely destroyed by a comet shower, NASA detects the said asteroid and go into a frenzy.
They hire the world's best oil driller (Bruce Willis), and send him and his crew up into space to fix our globel problem. That's like sending a mouse into a cat carrier, isn't it?
The action in Armageddon are so over the top, nonstop, and too ludicrous for words, I had to sigh and hit my head with my notebook a couple of times. I was not alone. Plus, to see a wonderful actor like Billy Bob Thornton is a film like Armageddon is a waste of the actor's talents.
The film is just a reel to show off a bunch of snazzy FX shots. The only real reason for making this film was to somehow out-perform Deep Impact.
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer fails with Armageddon.
It's my pick for one of the worst of the year.
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