Armageddon my money back for this waste of time.

Rating: 1/10 (14 January 2000)

Armageddon ranks as one of the worst summer blockbusters of recent years. Michael Bay is certainly at fault for this as his previous examples of filmmaking (Bad Boys and The Rock) were also marred by his relentlessly juvenile direction. The "characters" are dull. The plot has holes in it big enough to fit a Texas-sized asteroid. Any sort of scientific validity for this pile of refuse is a waste of time (much like actually watching the film). While I have nothing against any of the actors who got suckered into making this (poor Billy Bob Thorton), I do have something against filmmakers who insist on shoveling this formulaic, dumb-downed, witless pile of cliches and mediocrity on us unsuspected movie patrons. Any movie that makes Independence Day look like an Oscar contender has got to be bad.