American Flag waving at its best

Rating: Null/10 (9 September 1998)

In a Strange and silly way Armageddon works. I sat though the whole movie thinking you cant do this, or it doesn't happen like that, or that wouldn't work, but you know what? I was having so much fun I didn't care. Sure it was kinda cheesy, and the laws of physics only applied when the plot called for them, much like for example, how the coyote from RoadRunner fame only fell when he looked down. It is important to note that the filmmakers don't take themselves to seriously and made the film quite light hearted and laugh out loud funny in places. Maybe it was meant to distract us from the plot flaws. Michael Bay is proving to be quite adept at making action films. His trademark break neck pace is slightly annoying here as the movie goes to long and the pace has sufficiently tired us towards the end. However he has tried for a smite more sentiment in this film than in his previous outings and maybe he is looking to branch out from the action film business into perhaps Period Drama's. I think his camera work would go over well in a heated argument scene between two lovers (a lady of the manor and a stable boy), I can even seen that slap being filmed in slow motion with some nice lighting effects with a rock track back it up. As I said before an enjoyable movie that if you haven't seen, I recommend you do , even if it is only For Steve Buscemi's scene stealing, movie making one liners. The one thing I must bring up before I end this rant, is why would you install a forward facing Gattling Gun? Maybe the minds that developed the Space Rover thing, anticipated finding some aliens that were hostile on this Meteor. Much like for example the Bugs from Starship Troopers. Or maybe you can't make a blockbuster movies these days with out little bit of gunplay.