If you like Sci-Fi based on "sci-fact", skip this film.

Rating: 4/10 (22 February 1999)

Hey, I can get in to most films no matter how preposterous the plot is, but I'm afraid that this one really had not enough going for it to encourage me to suspend my disbelief to the level required.
Yes the Special FX of the meteorites hitting the earth were truly exciting but it seemed to me that having established the main plot for the film (huge asteroid hits earth, annihilating almost everything) the rest of the story was thought up by some kids in a playground! I.e. how do we stop the asteroid? Get some oil riggers and fly them to the asteroid so that they can drill a hole to enable an atomic device to be planted.
The scenes on the asteroid were so far fetched and took so little regard for the laws of physics that I found it insulting. The scene where the vehicle gets to an impass and is then jumped across the chasm for a couple of miles was laughable. Bruce Willis has certainly done much better, Pulp Fiction for example, but his character in this was dire.
4/10