Bang

Rating: Null/10 (17 August 1998)

Put simply, Armageddon is both utterly ridiculous and enormously good fun (a bit like golf, or sex). It's also bloated and wasteful, although the fact that everything presented on the screen exists purely to be blown up, hit, knocked over or tied up seems to be the single concession to economy.
Don't worry about the plot - enjoy the spectacle, and the way that Steve Buscemi gets away with suckling on the corporate teat by being incredibly cool'n'ironic at the same time.
Marvel at the director's obsession with Liv Tyler, photographing her in loving close-up even when she has nothing to say or do. Wince as Bruce Willis messes up the vaguely original ending by being much too weepy. Gasp as the film seems to have compressed time.
Oh, go and see it. It's art, almost.