A disappointment

Rating: 2/10 (2 March 2006)

I managed to miss this '98 film but finally got a chance to check it out. Sci-Fi action, Bruce Willis, Liv Tyler, BBThornton, giant asteroid crashing into earth, how could it not be good?? It was a huge disappointment, especially given that I love Bruckheimer's Law & Order series. Hokey,corny, disjointed, contrived, gratuitous, are some of the reactions I had to this film. The story line and the over the board stereo-typical character personalities border on the absurd. I have only ever cut off a film a few times in my life, after 2/3rds of the way through this one, I went to bed. It was too painful to watch this unfold. The special effects were fairly good, that is why I hung in there. Although seeing the (SPOILER HERE): World Trade Center and my favorite the Chrysler Building destroyed gave me more angst than I imagined.