"Science" Fiction

Rating: Null/10 (30 August 2000)

Well, the Americans save the world again! First it defeated an alien race thousands of years more advanced than Bill Gates (Independence Day) with a computer virus! Now they blow up a giant meteorite heading for Earth, using not trained astronauts, not scientists, not qualified space geologists, not any of these people whose field of expertise is on the very edge of human understanding! No, the best men for the job are...oil-rig workers! This movie was designed to make the average American schmuck feel good about being an average American schmuck- it does nothing to further peoples' understanding of scientific concepts such as the intricacies of spaceflight or planetary physics, or if fact anything remotely scientific. Ignoring the complete lack of all things scientifically accurate, the acting was pure cliche, the characters terminally stereotyped (gritty, no-nonsense hero, stupid bumbling government officials, drunk Russian cosmonaut, NASA experts that don't know what to do..yadda yadda) Would someone PLEASE make a movie where the Americans once more try to save the world, but this time fail miserably? As they surely would.