Suspending disbelief is one thing, suspending common sense is another

Rating: 3/10 (4 January 2005)

This film contains some of the most dreadful physics that I've ever seen. They spin the space station Mir with the shuttle docked to it to create gravity. Perhaps this was done to save the producers the cost of renting the 'vomit comet' to film the zero-g sequences as was done in Apollo 13. However, not only would the docked shuttle tear itself from it's moorings in reality, but the station is shown rotating on it's axis where in one scene, an actor was climbing a ladder and there was gravity there! So they cheesed out on the effects and still didn't get it right! My other beef with this movie is the plot device where you the viewer are told that something must happen in X amount of time, and then of course you get down to the last possible second before the thing happens. This movie overused this plot device worse than I've ever seen. I can take it in every other Star Trek episode, but in Armageddon, the first time it was exciting, the second time it was OK, by the third time I was checking my watch and figuring out if I could hit the popcorn stand and be back before Bruce saved the day.