Brief review

Rating: Null/10 (20 November 1998)

Basically, a high gloss remake of "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea", only instead of a sub going underwater, it's a space shuttle going the opposite direction. Both have a tight time limit to save the earth from worldwide doom. All the key characters (the ones played by Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton) are straight out of a bad sit-com, very one dimensional. The closest to a fun character is Steve Buscemi, as an astronaut who slowly goes nuts. The worst is the talented Liv Tyler, who plays a young woman whose fiancee (Affleck) and dad (Bruce) are heading the spaceship crew attempting to A Bomb blast a "Texas-sized" meteor heading for earth. She justs stands there, listening to very pessimistic broadcasts from the spaceship. Her BLANK expression makes one think director Michael Bay simply said: "Liv, in this scene, and every scene in the movie, I want you to look like you just swallowed a pen cap." The special effects, and pictorial design of the film are top notch. Think of it as a Visual Effects Artists' demo reel.