Armageddon Reviews

Why was this slated ?

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.

cliche packed, cornball all american pap.

This film was released in the cinema at about the same time as Deep Impact, and quite frankly this makes Deep Impact look lika an epic.

Armageddon simply has every film cliche ever committed to celuloid packed within its overlong 90 minutes.

After about 15 minutes viewing, it suddenly dawned on me that this was in fact a comedy....lets see.

A meteor is heading for earth & the american govenment decides to save us all by training a bunch of tabaco chewing redneck oil drillers to be astronauts.....er, wouldn't it have been quicker to train the astronauts to be drillers?

This film was worth watching for one of the greatest comedy moments on film, i refer to the final scene when the guy that was the fly in the ointment at ground control walks up to Liv Tyler and says 'please let me shake the hand of the daughter of the bravest man i've ever met' (Brucie) oh pleeeese ( pass the sick bucket)

Is it any wonder that the rest of the world has such a low opinion of the American public.

Turgid, cliche packed, all american tosh.

One for the younger teens, if you are an adult watch Deep Impact.

The end is near

good film far fetched? who know's. The film is believable and has your attention throughout, keep's you on the edge of your seat, a little bit of romance as well for good measure

[Highly rated reviewer]

Lightweight Popcorn Flick

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.

An amazing feat.

This has got to be the best movie on the space race ever made. The Plot is far-fetched yet entirely believable.Bruce Willis has played his character to the best. Liv Tyler is also cool as his daughter. The soundtrack is just too awesome n worth. In a nutshell, a great film. If u don't like films about the space, u should still watch this. Will make one forget films like Deep Impact.

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Awesome

This film is a must see.

Its sad near the end i think when he tells his daugher he isnt comin home, but apart from that the ending is fantastic!

Awful

Absolute garbage. If you like films that insult your intelligence and are filled with scientific and continuity errors, laughably clunky dialogue, over-sentimentality, and every Hollywood cliche to date (e.g. deciding whether to cut the blue or red wire whilst defusing a bomb) then perhaps this film is for you.

Who will save us? The Goddamned Americans will

Every tedious, overplayed and undeserved Americana cliche you have ever had thrown at you, spend what feels like a life-time of Attention Deficit Disorder-pandering, fighting to grab centre-stage from each other whilst the best you can do is sit in slack-jawed bewilderment as the camera angle changes by the seconds from one emotionless performance to the next leaving you to momentarily wonder how much more ridiculous this film could be - just before it obliges by showing you. Avoid.

[Highly rated reviewer]

What a Turkey !

It has all been already said, but there is no reason why I shouldn't say it all again.

This film is ridiculous, contrived,predictable, wooden and makes little use of an excellent cast and quite impressive special effects.

Its main premise is that there is some highly specialised and high level expertise involved in the drilling of holes, but is hole drilling really on a par with particle physics or quantum theory - I don't think so...

If one can't buy in to this premise, i.e. if one has half a brain, then the whole thing comes over as being completely ridiculous; even the comedy thus generated does not sufficiently compensate one for the cost of seeing the thing, even if one only sees it on TV.

Bay manages to achieve consistent and uniformly wooden performances from what is a highly talented and able cast. Liv Tyler puts in a believable performance, Ben Affleck is on slow-burn, but Bruce Willis and the rest of the cast, including Billy Bob thornton and Steven Buscemi, are present in body only.

Its emotional content is only slightly greater than zero - there is more emotion in Little Red Riding Hood.

The action scenes are too frantic to pack any emotional punch, and the cliffhanger scenes are too cliched and fail to generate any real excitement or suspense.

The ostensibly emotional ending also lacks any real impact as it is too obviously contrived and too easily predictable.

Its also very odd how the notoriously English stiff upper-lip seems to have crossed the Atlantic and taken up residence in Hollywood !

The single star is for the special effects, the editing (except for the action sequences) and the Aerosmith contribution to what is otherwise a very tedious soundtrack.

Phew what a scorcher!

Quite simply the best film ever made.

What more could you want, it has all your favourite stars in it (Ben Affleck for heavens sake) and it also features the best soundtrack since Top Gun or Rocky IV.