On par with "Manos, the Hands of Fate"

Rating: 1/10 (25 September 2001)

I would much rather be an astute moviegoer who can't enjoy Michael Bay/ Jerry Bruckheimer blockbusters than be an ignorant rube who passes over the work of Kubrick, Chaplin, and the Coen Brothers in the video store for this sort of crap.
People say over and over, Hey it's just entertainment. Turn off your brain and enjoy.' I can GUARANTEE these people that I enjoy `2001: a space odyssey' or `Nights of Cabiria' or `Rear Window' multiple, MULTIPLE times more than you liked `Armageddon'. These films are more enjoyable because it is a simple fact that it is enjoyable to see something you haven't seen before, to see something that involves the viewer in the story, to have your brain engaged. `Armageddon' is so predictable and so trite as to be repulsive to anyone who has seen a blockbuster film before. It's exactly the same stuff as you've seen time and again and you know precisely what will happen next. No amount of explosions can change that.
I will not mince words or hide behind platitudes. If you like this movie, you've either lived in a cave your entire life or you have incredibly horrible taste in films. You deserve our pity.
0 stars out of ****. BOMB