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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... [More]
Starring: Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Billy Bob Thornton
Director: Michael Bay
Reviews for Armageddon
It sure makes an ugly mess.
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...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.
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Relatively silly and far too long disaster movie.
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...this film reaches its real dramatic power because it embroils us in deeper issues of heart and spirit.
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Along with the rest of the audience, I jumped when I was meant to jump, laughed when I was meant to laugh, and swallowed a lump in my throat when I was meant to feel moved.
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...a waste of 100 million dollars and the talent of great actors...
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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.
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Rent The Right Stuff and watch a real movie by real artists about real heroes.
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It is impossible to take a movie like this seriously. Unfortunately, the movie tries to force us to do just that a few times too many.
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In the end, the script is probably the only true thing that I felt was lacking.
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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.
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In several shots, the poor, deprived, unskilled and timid folks of Europe, Asia and Africa pray for the brave Yanks to save their butts.
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...the latest in a line of increasingly-stupid action pictures that amazes audiences with flashy special effects and nifty action sequences, but leaves them high and dry in both the character and story departments.
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A real movie about courage in space is Apollo 13, in which fear and sacrifice have meaning. This jingoistic, overblown spectacle is about whistling in the dark.
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Top CriticArmageddon is far from boring, but it's chock-full of explosions and loud noises, which becomes annoying in a hurry.
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...a nacho-munching, popcorn-eating cheese-fest of special effects, fun and 144 minutes of brainless entertainment.
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Even worse is the wildly overrated Affleck, whose failings as an actor become glaringly obvious here.
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