sergelamarche Great special effects but not quite real. Oil drillers saving the planet in space in 18 days? This film is sucking up. Lots of funny moments though, like a spoof of the apollo program.

aatabag I enjoyed every seconds. It contains both action, drama and sci-fi. Another nice thing is that the movie lasts 3 hours. No more to say. Need to watch!

juneebuggy Hadn't seen this in years and thoroughly enjoyed myself in a long overdue re-watch. Special effects still stand up today, fantastic cast, humorous and excellent in terms of an action popcorn flick.Sure it heads into far fetched, over-the-top territory by the end as one thing after another goes wrong while shuttling about through an asteroid field, but I was invested. Its a fun ride including a sweet romance, multiple side stories from the extended cast and that iconic theme song from Aerosmith.If I remember correctly there was a string of asteroid disaster films that all came out around the same time Deep Impact was another I enjoyed.The story here goes; NASA is desperate to stop a gigantic asteroid from wiping out humanity so they recruit an outfit of misfit oil drillers to detonate a nuclear bomb that will blow up the massive rock before it reaches earth.

nuoipter termer Armageddon is a Deep Impact-like movie where an asteroid is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth after a meteor shower destroys a space shuttle and hits New York City. The asteroid is big enough that if it hits Earth, it will kill all life. Oil rig drillers are asked to fly to the asteroid and drill a hole in it and plant a bomb to blow it up. They blow it into two pieces which don't hit the Earth. This is a great movie in that the special effects are very good and it's very fun and intense. It opens with a depiction of an impact that is thought to have killed the dinosaurs and a narrator commenting on that. One of the top few best scenes and maybe the best scene is where Paris is hit by a meteorite and is destroyed in a huge explosion.