you will either love it or hate it

Rating: 10/10 (24 April 2016)

As you can probably see by the star rating, i'm one of the people who loves this film. I am a Die Hard Bruce Willis fan. All characters were superbly cast. Buscemi as Rock, Affleck as AJ, Tyler as Grace, Thornton as Truman. All of them work well together and showed a very great chemistry, The relationship between Bruce and Affleck was simply put "Great" Thornton does a perfect job as a NASA employee. Their character just fit them. An asteroid the size of Texas is detected heading for Earth. It will wipe out all life on the planet if it hits. NASA decides that the only course of action is to plant a nuclear warhead deep into the asteroid to split it in two hoping it will safely pass Earth. They send a team of oil drillers led by Bruce Willis to drill the hole and save the Earth.
This is a great disaster movie utilizing the directing skills of Michael Bay, a great action movie director and when teamed with producer Jerry Bruckheimer they create some of the best action films around. The effects in this film are incredible with an out of this world story line and a cast of greats that includes Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Owen Wilson, Steve Buscemi, Michael Clarke Duncan, William Fichtner & Will Patton. All great actors and all bring so much to the film, but the greatest performance is by Steve Buscemi who steals every scene he is in playing the character of Rockhound.
This is an effects heavy film, but it works. The film is about chaos and destruction and the effects are relentless in the portrayal of the destruction. The spectacle of smaller asteroids crashing down to Earth is amazing to watch. Many people were put off with the effects of chaos and mayhem, but the film wouldn't have worked without it. However this film manages something most sci-fi films fail in. It manages to get you emotionally involved. I know many people that got teary eyed at the end of the film (me included) and that is something rare in a sci- fi/action film.
Love it or Hate it, but this is a very emotional film especially with the Soundtrack and the last scenes. Well deserves a better rating then it has!