cliché pack bilge

Rating: Null/10 (11 September 2004)

This film was released in the cinema at about the same time as Deep Impact, and quite frankly this makes Deep Impact look like an epic. Armageddon simply has every film cliché ever committed to celluloid packed within its overlong 90 minutes. After about 15 minutes viewing, it suddenly dawned on me that this was in fact a comedy....lets see. A meteor is heading for earth & the American government decides to save us all by training a bunch of tabaco chewing redneck oil drillers to be astronauts.....er, wouldn't it have been quicker to train the astronauts to be drillers? This film was worth watching for one of the greatest comedy moments on film, i refer to the final scene when the guy that was the fly in the ointment at ground control walks up to Liv Tyler and says 'please let me shake the hand of the daughter of the bravest man i've ever met' (Brucie) oh pleeeese ( pass the sick bucket) Is it any wonder that the rest of the world has such a low opinion of the American public. Turgid, cliché packed, all American tosh. One for the younger teens, if you are an adult watch Deep Impact.