Great Escapism, Hollywood at it's best

Rating: 6/10 (9 May 2006)

It had all the classic new Hollywood schtick: a collection of irascible psychopaths, nerds and ruff neck drillers and oil explorers, under the lead of Die Hard himself. Willis sets the tone in the beginning when he tees off a golf ball from his drilling platform at a Greenpeace boat. The plot is simple and compelling: Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid unless Willis and his crew, with some interesting astro & cosmonauts flying the ultra useful and dependable space shuttle(Peter Storer as a whacked out Russian cosmonaut, great), to drill a hole in the asteroid and blast it in two with a hydrogen bomb.
Real basic stuff, good action and special effects and it's unpredictable. Eliminate the Ben Affleck - Liv Tyler love angle, she plays the boss's daughter, and the drecky song by Aerosmith, replace it with more action, and the movie would be 2x as good. If you ae looking for heavy themes and deep meaning, you will be disappointed, but if you want something entertaining and colorful, this is your ticket