Well that's two hours I'll never get back.....

Rating: 1/10 (19 January 2004)

My GOD this has to be one of the absolute worse movies I have EVER seen! Michael Bay is at it again with the 'all style and entirely NO substance' approach. Its just AMAZING to me that so many big names were involved in this movie and its still THIS BAD! Talk about asinine! The whole plot is just ludicrous.an asteroid is coming towards Earth to destroy us all..the only people who could save us? Oil drillers! Train them until the absolute last possible day before this big rock hits us and send them up there like astronauts so they could dig into it, drop a nuke, get out of there and detonate the bomb. This is where the person with sense would say, wouldn't the pieces from the explosion still hit Earth anyway? Hark! Bay & Co. have the answers to that one...detonate the nuke before you cross this boundary between it and Earth and the pieces should just miss our planet! Are you KIDDING ME???
I still can't believe this trash was even made. And the fact that it made as much money as it did bewilders me. There's escapist entertainment, that still somehow makes sense and is somehow logical, and then there's Armageddon, which is just too stupid and ridiculous to even NOT be taken seriously. I knew what to expect going in, but its one of those things where you don't think it will ever be as bad as you think it would be. In this case its even WORSE! Just how in the hell did they manage to do that? Easy. By having NO script and a load of talentless 'superstars' (i.e. Ben Affleck). Ben Affleck was one of the most worthless, stupidest characters I've ever witnessed in a movie. What was his purpose?.... to just mess everything up and be as inept as possible? The acting was horrible, which doesn't help the fact that the 'script' is pure nonsense. Everyone just took the idea of the world ending too calmly..giving Bruce Willis & Co (our 'heroes') ample and frequent times to complain and bicker to each other about stupidness. Uh, we're here to save the world.maybe this isn't a good time?!?!?! Could SOMEONE have a BIT of sense here? Oh, there was the self-proclaimed genius, Steve Buscemi (what the hell was HE thinking??) who was the only logical one until he came down with 'space dementia'. WHAT????

This is the perfect example of a movie having all the fancy decorations and brand names to cover up its total idiocy. What really got me was how the surface of this asteroid was as smooth as newly paved streets for everyone to just drive/stroll around so easily. I can employ my suspension of disbelief but so far, but the Evel Knievel jump made by Affleck on the armadillo was THE LAST STRAW for me! I said 'two hours' in my summary because that's how much of the 153 minute drivel of a movie I was able to tolerate before almost breaking my sacred player trying to get the rented DVD out of it (how I removed the disc from my player without breaking it is a mystery). I didn't see the last half hour or so and I truly don't care to know/see what happens. I have been scarred for life watching this garbage, though I'm still recuperating from the torturous experience. From now on I now know to stay FAR FAR AWAY from Michael Bay movies..Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys 2, and now Armageddon??? This takes the cake. Those were two precious hours of my life that I could never get back. What a load of CRAP this was.. one of the top 10 WORST movies I've ever been so unfortunate to see.
ZERO out of **** stars.