Edam.

Rating: 3/10 (29 April 2008)

This film, another typically generic effort from Captain America Michael Bay, is so cringe-inducingly bad you will forget it is meant to be an edge-of-seat thriller. The acting and the dialogue are so cheesy and it is full of so many plot holes that its a surprise that the meteor wasn't shaped like a giant piece of Edam. Similarly the characters are all totally unbelievable and pointlessly annoying, especially Liv Tyler's (would they really let an emotionally unstable civilian in the NASA control room when the world is at stake!).
Although the plot is kept to a minimum in favour of action, it is so ridiculously implausible it is laughable. Throw in the whole America saves the world, again, motto, Bay's slow-mo emo montages and his uncanny ability to capture the American flag in shot whenever he can, it seems almost like a NASA propaganda video and a very bad one at that. The only thing believable in this joke of a film is that a group of pompous, testosterone-driven American bloke civilians can spend more time fighting with each other and dicking about on a meteor heading for Earth instead of actually getting on with the job even if the fate of humanity depended on it.
3/10