"This movie is a big joke"

Rating: Null/10 (25 January 1999)

** 1/2 out of *****
When I saw this movie´s trailer, I got excited beyond belief. I knew that like in Deep Impact, America would manage to save the day...again...in the same year. Don´t get me wrong, I love the United States, specially Disneyland, Houston and Las Vegas. But why is it that when the world´s in danger, us third world countries have to wait for americans to save us? I know it´s because we don´t have the economical resources, but what we do have is extremely brilliant people...but let´s get back in track...
I think that what happened with Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer was the same thing that happened to Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich. Bad Boys and The Rock were excellent movies. So what they did, was to think of an excuse and with it create a "story" and put it on film.
I expect when I go to the movie theater, to see more than things being blown up... I expect to see some story, care about the characters or something. None of this things happened with Armageddon.
For starters, Bruce Willis was cast to act as Bruce Willis, at this point, I really can´t remember his character´s name. Now, there are some irregularities with this movie... Explosions and sound can´t happen at space, because there´s no oxygen! Remember elementary school? With no oxygen there´s no fire? Steve Buscemi´s character (from whom I can´t either remember his name) starts firing a remote controlled automatic machine gun...Why would they carry a machine gun into space? Did they expected to fight some aliens, or to even find any? I loved Jonathan Hensleigh´s writing on Jumanji and Die Hard:With a Vengeance...but, what happened to him on this one? The lines of his characters were so irrelevant, that I really dídn´t care for them: "The clock is ticking" (Why is this line so famous?) There was another scene that excited me when I first saw it, but then I thought about it and was kinda illogical...If they´re activating the nuke, to detonate it from earth, by simply pushing a button, is there a reason for the weapon to have a timer? Or was it just an excuse for the "clock is ticking" line, or for the blue wire/red wire sequence? The other thing that was an assault to my senses, was the vertiginous direction. No image lasted more than 5-6 seconds. There were some scenes where I couldn´t understand what was happening. I did liked the New York destruction scene, but is it easy (or logic) to hide an asteroid the size of Texas, after the massive destruction of a city, to the whole world? What I did liked about this movie was that I was so worried about Willis´ team succeeding in their mission, that all improbabilities slipped past through my mind. Trevor Rabin´s score was excellent, but it was difficult to pay attention to, it with all the sound effects. This movie is better in just one thing than Deep Impact, it cares about the world´s reaction. In Deep Impact, the matter was treated as a local problem, without caring for the rest of the world. I do love action movies, and even vertiginous ones (The Rock, The Peacemaker and Crimson Tide) but if you make an excessive use of your cinematographic elements you can make a mess out of your movie.