I'm dizzy...

Rating: 4/10 (4 October 1999)

If a nonstop barrage of explosions, screams, and flashes of light that would blot out the most expansive 4th of July make for a good movie, then Armageddon would win 15 Oscars. By the time this thing was over, I was praying for something substantive to happen, preferably in a quiet scenerio.
But of course, given today's standards of whatever you can do-I can make louder-special effects, what else would you expect?
How about characters we can like? With the lone exception of Steve Buscemi(who I would like in anything), the characters were devoid of sympathy. The Liv Tyler character was especially obnoxious. I found myself fast-forwarding every scene she was in half way through the movie. Not a good sign.
How about credibility? It helps if the plot isn't so full of holes you could toss an asteroid the size of Texas through it. The entire scene on the asteroid was devoid of science, physics anything real(eg.,an astronaut's visor is broken and instead of his body exploding from lack of pressure, it just lays there, bleeding).
Special effects alone do not make for good story. A nonstop barrage of special effects and a marginal plot line with obnoxious characters makes for a bad movie.