mixed really

Rating: Null/10 (9 July 1999)

Armageddon is a film that seems to fall between two things - science fiction and science fact. To me this is dangerous territory. It is highly plausible that an asteroid/meteor will hit Earth. But it is also well known that even if it is five years away it'll still hit us and it'll be too late for anything, Bruce Willis, roughneck extrordinaire or not.
I enjoyed Armageddon despite its ludicrous jumps in logic.
Jumps in logic? I mean, they didn't spot a meteor until it was two weeks away? Come on!
This film was loaded with cliches and stupid stupid plotpoints. The jingoistic "Praise America and all of it's Children!" attitude made me want to retch but I didn't.
Unsurprisingly Paris and Shanghai were destroyed while some US city suffered a bit of token damage at the start.
If this film had been a parody it might have been half good.
Enjoyable trash.