In a dismal summer for popcorn movies, this epic may be the silliest but still looks like the best shot.
Armageddon (1998)
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Reviews Counted:73
Fresh:30
Rotten:43
Average Rating:5.1/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 33 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Michael Bay, the master of the big-budget blockbuster, directs this action film that is packed with emotion. With a planet-killing asteroid on a collision course with Earth, it's up to a motley... Michael Bay, the master of the big-budget blockbuster, directs this action film that is packed with emotion. With a planet-killing asteroid on a collision course with Earth, it's up to a motley crew of scientists and oil drillers (yes, oil drillers) to save the earth. With 18 days to impact, a team from NASA (led by Billy Bob Thornton) frantically tries to find a solution but ends up turning to an outside contractor. Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis) and his team of oilmen are called upon to save the planet as only they can. ARMAGEDDON may boast impressive special effects, but it's the cast--including Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Steve Buscemi, and Owen Wilson--that gives the film its humor and heart. Tyler's father Steven Tyler and his band Aerosmith contributed the Oscar-nominated hit "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" to the soundtrack. [More]
Starring: Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Billy Bob Thornton
Starring: Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Billy Bob Thornton, Will Patton, Peter Stormare, Keith David, Steve Buscemi, Michael Clarke Duncan, William Fichtner, Owen Wilson, Charles Stewart
Director: Michael Bay
Director: Michael Bay
Screenwriter: Jonathan Hensleigh, Jeffrey Abrams
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer, Gale Anne Hurd, Michael Bay
Composer: Trevor Rabin
Reviews for Armageddon
Where things fall apart are the scenes that try to put in characterisation, and, God help us, comic relief.
Armabludgeon is like a roller coast--occasionally exciting, but in the end you've been taken for a long, nauseating ride.
...as a summer popcorn flick, the film has its moments and is ultimately enjoyable, even though the fate of the planet seems to take a backseat plotwise to the fate of Liv Tyler and Ben Affleck's goo-goo-eye-making.
The movie is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense and the human desire to be entertained.
Yet while the movie's emotions grow a bit gentler, they remain as forced and artificial as ever, pushing market-tested buttons - heroics, patriotism, family values - with a monotony that denies us any chance to think or even feel for ourselves.
Tenso e com bons efeitos visuais, o filme funciona como diversão (apesar dos clichês).
...this film reaches its real dramatic power because it embroils us in deeper issues of heart and spirit.
For some reason, even though the asteroid is "as big as Texas", they only need to drill 800 feet to get to the very center.
Do you ride rollercoasters for insight into your psyche? NO. Do you see Armageddon to be lambasted with great special effects, & incredible acts of derring-do? Yes, you do.
Michael Bay's movie is frenetic from start to its conclusion two-and-one half long hours later, leaving the audience scarcely a moment to catch its breath.
Yes, in this film the honors-science students are obliged to sit back and watch as the shop class saves the world.
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