No, disconnecting brain is not enough

Rating: 3/10 (10 September 2002)

* little a bit of a spoiler... but i'd wonder if you can't guess how this movie ends * Someone in here suggested just to send brain on vacation and enjoy the film... ok, this could be a good trick for most of the disaster and action movies out there, but IMO it just can't work for Armageddon. I mean, we can avoid to care about the macroscopic goofs of the plot... that asteroid, first of all, is not an asteroid but a planet, it's just weird to think we cannot see an object of such dimensions if not 18 days before it crashes on earth, and how the heck could you break it in two parts just putting a bomb 800 ft underground?? If it really has the dimensions of Texas it must have a diameter of several hundreds of Km, no matter how flat it is, the smaller diameter must be at least about 150 Km, what can a bomb do at 800 ft??? Just a crater, that is, and anyway a complicate mathematic calculus and precise estimations should establish the exact place where to drill and put the bomb, not just "land somewhere where the ground is softer and do your work", and if the "asteroid" takes a rotatory movement because of the moon gravity effect you can't just keep the old plan 'cause there's a precise moment in which to detonate the bomb, or one of the two fragments could keep running towards the earth... and so on... But as I said, who cares about that, the real problem here is that everything is too manifestly predictable... you just need to know what the movie is about and you'll know what will happen... ok, maybe you can't know exactly who'll die and who'll live, and who'll be the hero (but you can guess), but nothing, really NOTHING, can surprise you, even just a little, along this story. Deep Impact has something more to say, and without being a masterwork it is just a bit more interesting, at least it does not just focalize on the mission.