Best of the Year

Rating: 10/10 (20 September 1998)

Armageddon was a truly awesome movie, my favorite of the year. It's Michael Bay's 3rd movie after Bad Boy's and The Rock both of which were two of my favorite movies of all time and this movie definitely makes him my favorite director. What did I like about the movie? I liked how the characters were pretty much normal people as opposed to experts who had been preparing for something like this their whole life. I loved the special effects. In my opinion this movie has is no.3 of all time as far as special effects in a movie (no.1 an 2 goes to Titanic, and Independence Day. All the actors in the movie did a good job(it's Bruce Willis's best role so far) and Steve Buscemi was hilarious , and is one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood. One seemingly minor thing I greatly enjoyed was the fact that it was a very patriotic movie, yet also was able to show what was going on around the world. Most of the scenes were done well. The ending (which I won't spoil) is very touching, and there are about three of so scenes of glimpses of what people around the world were doing, and these were done so well(especially the one where the president was making his speech at the same time) they almost made me cry. People say this movie isn't realistic, but what makes them such experts? Have they ever been in a situation where an asteroid the size of Texas was going to hit the Earth and wipe out humanity? There could have been some things that weren't campletely probable, but you could say that about 99% of all movies out there. If you havn't seen this movie get off your ass and see it this second! If you're in the mood to be entertained you probaly will be.
Rated PG-13 for disaster violence, profanity, and sensuality
Rating:95/100
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