This movie will drill a hole & drop a bomb in your brain

Rating: Null/10 (11 August 2001)

Words can't really do justice to how cliche ridden, scientifically implausible, and emotionally false this movie is.
The plot is so absolutely generic (Bruce Willis' rag tag group of roughnecks are always right, the government is always wrong), why even bother going into details. If you've lived in a cave since the invention of space flight, you may be in store for some surprises. Otherwise, check your brain at the door.
Even without picking apart the factual errors, it's hard to not be distracted when the entire premise is ridiculous (you've got a meteor the size of Texas and dropping a bomb 800 ft below --- not even a quarter mile --- is supposed to obliterate it? Only if the bomb is a box of 'Armageddon' VHS tapes).
In true Titanic wanna-be fashion, the story intermittently focuses on the young love between Liv Tyler and Ben Affleck. Tyler is cute and precious, which is about all this type of roles requires. Ben Affleck is perfectly bland as the young stud. He seems like a nice guy but let's face it, he is nothing but a creation of old-school Hollywood trying to promote some working class white guy as the next hot thing, when in reality he is absolutely average in every way. Their romance is so freeze dried that violins start blaring at 11 everytime they come within a 10 foot radius of each other (that is, when Aerosmith's latest hackwork song isn't being played in the background).
Let me say that I don't require high intelligence or class in my movies, but c'mon, don't try to BS like this. The "other" disaster blockbuster released that year, "Deep Impact", at least took some time to develop sympathetic characters and show the effect that such a shocking event would have on the world. This movie is nothing but brainless rah-rah action sequences trying to beat you into submission.