Fully deserves a negative rating on the scale of 1-10!

Rating: 1/10 (14 December 2005)

This film is so awful that it makes me sick even to write about it. I cannot agree that a mitigating factor is that it is not supposed to be an A-movie, but just pure unadulterated entertainment.
Well, this film does not entertain at all. It is hopelessly miss-cast. Bruce Willis as Liv Tyler's father? The more-awful-than-usual Ben Affleck smooching Liv? Yuck! The normally excellent Steve Buscemi as a sex-crazed maniac (well, he pulled it off in Fargo, but there his character had, well, character)? Come to think of it, nobody could have saved this movie given the script and the cardboard cut-out characters. Liv reduced to ecstatic smiles or on the verge of tears throughout, drunken Russian cosmonaut doing drunken things with a stupid accent, a bunch of happy-go-luckiest saving the world, half the time you cannot recognise the characters through their astronaut suits.
And lets not even mention the physics this teaches. Drilling holes on an asteroid, oil spills in a space station... Crash landed a space shuttle? No problem - get a ride back on a different one.
With films like this it would not be a shame for an asteroid to score a direct hit on California. Come to think of it, given the average rating of this film, it would not be a shame for this planet to really be destroyed by an asteroid. Shame it does not happen in the film too (this is not a spoiler - you always know 'the crew' will pull it off)! And if you want futuristic entertainment then go for Men in Black, or The Fifth Element. Do yourself a favour and do not spend money or time on Armageddon.