Full Movie Reviews
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0.5/4
Criterion Spine #40
SIngli6 - wrote on 11/16/2022
I will forever be that boring man who thinks Deep Impact is an infinitely superior film to this. This film might have more sights and sounds and smoldering landmarks, but at least Deep Impact had a few moments of authentic human connection and existential fear in the face of seemingly inescapable total annihilation. This has none of that, and the 'fun' it claims to have in lieu of drama it also lacks because Bay has absolutely no idea how to stage an action scene. Seriously, in not one of his films has he EVER tried to make an action scene where we are supposed to believe or understand what his characters are experiencing. He just traps you in a car mechanic's shop and throws different kinds of grimy paint at you. For two hours and thirty minutes. That's his filmography and he's in the …
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N/A
"I am sorry"
cinegeek.de - wrote on 06/10/2016
Endlich gibt es ihn, den 150 minütigen Trailer! Denn nichts weiter ist Armageddon: Ein Attentat auf unsere Sinne, unseren Verstand, unseren Geschmack. Einfach 30 Sekunden aus jeder Szene knipsen und wir könnten sogar 150 Trailer daraus basteln! Der Plot setzt sich aus verschiedenen SciFi Standarts zusammen, in denen die Welt bedroht ist. Verglichen mit Armageddon müssten die aber allesamt auf einer erlesenen Liste des Goethe Instituts stehen. Bruce Willis und sein Team haben nun in Hochgeschwindigkeit die Aufgabe, ein 800 Meter tiefes Loch zu buddeln, eine Bombe hineinzustecken, um so den Asteroiden abzuschiessen, der bei Misserfolg die Erde trifft. Immerhin besitzt er die Grösse von ganz Texas! Wir könnten das jetzt nachrechnen, ob nicht schon ein Asteroid der Grösse von Houston …
Rating of
4/4
best movie ever
jess - wrote on 10/02/2010
The Plot of Armageddon: While fixing a satellite in orbit, the Space Shuttle Atlantis is destroyed by a meteor shower, killing the entire team. Meteorites then bombard New York City and several other parts of the world, and NASA discovers that an asteroid named Dottie, named after Karl wife Dottie. Dottie is the size of Texas, and is travelling at 22,000 miles per hour; it will collide with Earth in 18 days, effectively destroying the planet. The scientists at NASA are cooperating with the Russian space station to watch meteor, and plan how to detonate a nuclear bomb in the Dottie’s core which will split it in two, and cause it to miss the …
Rating of
3/4
MegaBudget Action Flick = Decent Entertainment
mdtinney - wrote on 10/31/2009
Once again Bruce Willis is given the simple task of saving the world in this mega-zillion-budget bigboys' joyride. An asteroid the size of Texas is about to do to us what another big rock did to the dinosaurs millions of years back (as we are told by Charlton "Moses" Heston in the opening credits). Swedish Peter Stormare -who steals every scene he's in as a russian cosmonaut- said to the media after seeing the final version of "Armageddon" that "They cut out all the good parts!", and apparently ever since he has tried to forget he ever involved himself in this project. The movie sure looks like they left hours on the cutting room floor, but if you just don't think too much about it what's left still makes for good friday night entertainment. Buscemi is once again left with all the smart …
Rating of
1/4
Review - Armageddon (1998)
Delorted - wrote on 01/12/2008
When an asteroid of Biblical proportions is headed towards Earth, NASA hired the one man who could put a bomb in the middle of it, Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis). He and his crew try to save the world in “Armageddon.”
I’ve decided that Michael Bay is one of the smartest morons in Hollywood. He is quite possibly the worst director of our time, but it doesn’t matter because he chose to make big-budget action movies, which always bring in the masses, thus inspiring studios to hire him to once more destroy everything that is cinema.
“Armageddon” is no exception. There is one single plot present in the movie and only a trace of a subplot involving Stamper’s daughter Grace (Liv Tyler) being in love with Stamper’s co-worker, A.J. Frost (Ben Affleck). This of course goes …
