All rights reserved. Wow, comets killed the dinosaurs. As a movie, Armageddon is a bigger disaster than Deep Impact . Cameras spin with dizzy impatience, rock oldies are heard for no good reason, gross ethnic stereotypes are enacted, the editing is as fast and glib as a coffee commercial. Everything in Armageddon is on the surface.
Depth is for dolphins.
Armageddon exists primarily to give Willis the opportunity to take running leaps against exploding backdrops. They just don't have enough dollars to track every Texas-sized rock hurling toward the earth, as Thornton explains to a disgruntled President of the United States. Mr. Jealousy is a film buff's delight. There are enough visualized mental digressions, Manhattan street scenes and psychotherapeutic spoofing to fill a Woody Allen movie. The great director Peter Bogdanovich even plays the psychiatrist.