Avoid this if you know ANYTHING about science. Or decent movies......

Rating: 2/10 (2 August 2012)

How can someone be given $140,000,000 to make a pile of unbelievable crap like this? Oh wait - it's the movie industry we're talking about here. To summarize - the entire Earth manages to miss detecting an asteroid/comet (the movie is never entirely sure which) "the size of Texas" (that is 2-3 times the width of Ceres, the largest asteroid) until it's too late, resulting in -OMG!- 18 days to save humanity. ***SPOILERS FOLLOW*** Cue a bunch of oil platform workers being sent into space in two lame modified STS Orbiters via many scenes of unrealistic common sense - and basic physics - to split an object the size of Texas into two by detonating a nuke ONLY 800 FEET INTO IT.
SERIOUSLY - WTF?!?!?! Every single scientific thing in this movie is wrong or made up. The list of scientific horsesh*t is too long to include in this review. However, even if you don't want 7th grade science messing with a good plot, the movie still disappoints. There is a rich stew of clichÃ© and inexplicable character behavior holding it all together. I mean seriously - SPACE DEMENTIA?!?!?!
The thing is, every actor seemed to enjoy themselves here, and if it was a standard action movie the individual performances would be acceptable.
Tell you what - if you are beneath the age of 8, or have an IQ less than 100, then give it a go.
Just remember - In space, EVERYTHING EXPLODES!!!