Worse than you might be expecting...

Rating: 1/10 (8 May 2003)

To be blunt - Armageddon might just be the worst movie I've ever seen. It's a horribly cynical cash-in, with every facet of the movie designed to maximise its profits amongst movie goers looking for a "summer blockbuster". Even more than most films of this kind. There's the utterly shameless flag waving attitude (topped off by the drunk Russian astronaut), there's the endless cliches you can see coming a mile off, there's the obligatory romance, there's the fact that they never stop playing that bleedin' Aerosmith song (*cough*nepotism*cough*), and there's the fact that, shame of all shames, Steve Buscemi's in it but it's still crap. How can you put Steve Buscemi in a film and still make it devoid of all and any value? The answer - make Armageddon, a film which is never, ever going to even approach respectability.
Avoid. Avoid as if your life depended on it. Please.