140 million dollars of visual effects and 50 cents script

Rating: 5/10 (28 March 1999)

Michael Bay's Armageddon is in no doubt a very good piece of entertainment. By my opinion, most of those "bigger than life"- movies are. Like I said, it was entertaining, but it was definitely not a good film. The dialogue must contain several hundreds of clichés, and over all, the talking is very cheezy. They say things that only someone like a well-trained academic would say. And the happenings are very "illogical". But I can't for sure say if the scriptwriter and the director are both totally out of their minds, or if the film was being cut down quite a lot, so that we, as the audience, miss some relevant happenings an dialogue. Anyway, it was a terrible script, but the visual effects are astounding. Especially the Paris destruction sequence. And the one in the beginning. Must have taken half a year to make. At least. But the effects was the only good part of this film.