Oh please...

Rating: 1/10 (3 January 2002)

This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It has every bit of cheesiness, including the infamous "animal cracker scene," shots of little kids running across the field at sunset (I guess that's who those people are risking their lives for, yes), the father-daughter touchy-feely crud, and just an awful depiction of patriotism much like Mel Gibson's The Patriot, another awful movie. The worst thing about the movie is that it managed to make every character extremely annoying and obnoxious, maybe with the exception of Willis and Tyler. If everyone except Willis died on the mission, I would've been happy; unfortunately, it worked in the opposite way.
And one more thing: I couldn't keep a straight face throughout the movie (a mixture of disbelieving laughter and frowns) since they started talking about drilling a hole into the asteroid. Right. Then just watching them actually do the drilling, in space, on an asteroid traveling really fast towards the earth is a priceless bit of comedy; unfortunately, the movie was not meant to be a comedy. The idea is as absurd as Silvester Stallone playing an arm wrestling big rig driver.
I really hate this movie. On a scale of one to ten, I give it a zero. And to my friends who dragged me to see this movie (and actually liked it), I'll get you for that some day. Maybe I'll force them to watch the Stallone arm wrestling movie.