stupid, lame, trite and, above all, SAPPY as hell

Rating: 1/10 (15 October 2007)

The worst movie I have seen in many a year. Who produces this garbage and calls it good film-making? For one thing, it was not suspenseful in the slightest. It is almost as bad as the made-for-TV disaster movie 10.5. I would say it is only slightly better than Deep Impact, which was another horrible movie that came out at the same time. The script is lousy and the characters so unbelievable you almost want to laugh. No wonder the "disaster" movie genre died a quiet death after the 1970s. Why is Hollywood trying to bring it back? At least in some of the "disaster" flicks of the 1970s, like Earthquake or The Towering Inferno, we had a sense of foreboding. This movie does not even rise to that level.
The part of the movie that I groaned at was when the "astroidonauts" or whatever you call them were saying to their girlfriends "Honey, I love you...goodbye" on the telephone-TV. After sitting in the theater for about 2 hours wanting this awful movie to end, I wanted to throw up, it was so sappy and phony. Does Hollywood think viewers want to see this kind of Karo syrup in an action movie? It was not even believable. By the way, Ben Affleck cannot act his way out of a paper bag and this movie proves that. The only reason Bruce Willis is in the film is because he is a box-office "draw." If I were Willis, I'd be embarrassed to have been associated with this BOMB. Bad, bad, bad. Avoid at all costs.