You gotta be kidding

Rating: 2/10 (15 April 2007)

This could have been good, if they hadn't tried to make it so Star Wars-ish. Such a disastrous scenario is indeed possible, and an emergency mission to blow up the meteor might be one way to fix it.
But not like this. The Shuttle is given capabilities that are impossible. In fact, the whole mission is so full of bad science that it makes Spielberg look like Einstein. The only part that's believable is when Ben Affleck singlehandedly blows up the Russian space station. I believe he could really do that.
There is far too much attempted humour; this is supposed to be the ultimate disaster movie, after all. Why did they think it needed to be funny as well? And then there is the usual Amero-centric viewpoint. Half of Asia gets blasted away. Wow, that was lucky, it could have been us.
Did I mention clichés and stereotypes? This film is just about nothing but.
Very expensive popcorn. If you haven't seen it yet, don't bother unless you know nothing at all about science.