DIRECTOR: Michael Bay
MPAA RATING: PG-13
RUNNING TIME: 151 Minutes
STUDIO: Touchstone
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| CAST: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Will Patton
DIRECTOR: Michael Bay MPAA RATING: PG-13 RUNNING TIME: 151 Minutes STUDIO: Touchstone |
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Armageddon is fast-paced, with lots and lots of special effects and loud noises. It's your typical summer blockbuster. Not much character development, no script, flimsy subplot, but an enormous amount of action is poured into this 2 � hour meteor movie. The fate of the Earth is left in the hands of a top notch oil driller (Bruce Willis). He and his rag tag co-workers are sent into space to try stop a giant meteor, presumably the size of Texas (although that's impossible).
Their mission is to drill a hole 800 feet, drop in a little nuke, and blow it up before it blows the Earth up. One thing I found interesting in this film was the fact that the main destruction of the Earth came at the very beginning of the movie. Unlike the other asteroid movie, Deep Impact, where the destruction happened at the very end. Most of the movie's special effects are on the meteor itself. After the small meteors have destroyed many cities, including New York, director Michael Bay didn't seem to care about showing us the peoples' reaction. He just kind of skipped all of that mess and used the heart of the film showing the oil drillers train for the mission and their occurrences on the meteor. Though the characterization was about as bad as Godzilla's characters, it did have a couple of bright spots. Steve Buschemi provided some much needed comedy, while Billy Bob Thornton did a rather good job as a NASA Official. With Armageddon, Ben Affleck has made his spot as an action hero, like Will Smith did with Independence Day. Deep Impact wins the match as the best asteroid movie this year, mainly because of its characters. That film concentrated on more of the people's reactions and their feelings of the Earth ending. Armageddon mainly focused on blowing the audience away with special effects and lots of loudness, which they did quite nicely. 2nd highest grossing movie of 1998. |
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