A long stretch for the imagination, but more entertaining than Deep Impact.

Rating: Null/10 (29 November 1998)

The possible end of the world as we know it being a profound concept, Jerry Bruckheimer's Armageddon manages to be entertaining enough to allow me to forget Deep Impact's lack of impact. Although it requires a very long stretch of the imagination to suspend disbelief, the film is better than I expected and, even though I've seen comments from some who I'm sure have never liked any film that cost more than $300 to make, had plenty of story to go with more explosions than a world war. In fact, I think Mister B. could have left out 20 minutes of the character development and still have had a reasonable film. For those of us that realize that we are not paid film critics and go to see movies for entertainment, Armageddon will never be considered one of the top 100 movies of all time, but it is worth eight dollars.