It's Worse Than You Think...

Rating: 3/10 (27 May 2000)

This film had a pretty good cast - unfortunately, it was poorly written...the reason I say this was the entire idea surrounding the drilling of the meteor - why drill so many miles into the surface when you can merely use one of the vast canyons that exist on the meteor that are much deeper than any holes they could possibly drill? (they clearly point out the existance of these canyons in at least one scene in the movie)...
The filmmakers make such a big scene of the apparent thinking that goes on by scientists etc; hence I feel obliged to go out of my way to express the incredible lack of thinking that actually goes on...
There is a great scene when they are interviewing the various crew members in training, but this, and the some reasonable acting and one-liners by the cast, are the only redeeming qualities of this highly overrated movie...
There are other unrealistic elements associated with this movie (the amazing maneuverability of the space shuttles for instance) but I don't want to appear totally negative...
[3/10]