"Made For MTV"

Rating: Null/10 (4 August 2006)

I wouldn't be surprised if someone, somewhere, has thought of suing Michael Bay or his editor for giving himself/herself an epileptic fit. With the amount of cutting in this movie, it is not done properly at all. You barely have time to see what's in the shot before there is another big smash-cut a half a second later. Take any random thirty seconds of the movie and have a TV spot.
Anyway, the premise is that a giant meteor is heading towards Earth and that everybody is going to die. Unless NASA trains these oil drillers to go up there (by 'up there' I mean 'land on the asteroid'), drill a hole, and drop a nuke down said hole, and blow the meteor apart. Apparently this meteor is the size of Texas. Okay, say that a chunk the size of Austin was left over. Hell, even a chunk the size of Wal-mart could basically wipe us all out, if you count the parking lot.
Logically, this film fails on just about every level. If you've seen the film, you know what I mean. If you haven't seen it...well, I won't spoil it for you, but Bruce Willis dies! The script contains enough loops and plot holes and logistical problems that you could take out every other page and still have it make the same amount of sense. I'm sure the writers were patting themselves on their backs after writing 'This is gonna blow!' about twelve times in a row.
Stupid, yet fun.
4/10