Loud and boring

Rating: 1/10 (4 February 1999)

I hold action/effects films to a pretty low standard. Heck...I love those Blowing Up Buildings specials on television! I don't expect deep insights into humanity or world class filmmaking, just a decent story and a few characters I care enough about to worry about them.
ARMAGEDDON still managed to trip over this very low bar.
You know, a roller coaster doesn't demand much from a person intellectually, but then again, it doesn't INSULT you intellectually, either. ARMAGEDDON presented me with such a mess of a story and with such pasteboard characters that, to call it a "comic book" would insult comic books.
It WASN'T exciting. A lot of loud explosions don't make a movie entertaining, and that's all that ARMAGEDDON offered. I don't care how much money it made at the box office. It bored me stiff. What a waste!