Armageddon (Wide Screen) > Reviews

Advantages: Some good action
Disadvantages: typical 'save the planet' format

Director: Michael Bay Producers: Michael Bay, Gale Anne Hurd and Jerry Bruckheimer. Writers: Jonathon Hensliegh, J.J. Abrams and Robert Roy Pool. Stars: Bruce Willis, Ben Afflick, Liv Tyler, Michael Clark Duncan, Will Patton, Billy Bob Thornton, Steve Buscemi, Ken Campbell, William Fichtner and Peter Stormare. Released in 1998, this action/ adventure movie seemed to be your standard sci-fi/ save the world from complete disaster… and pretty standard ... Read review

Advantages: Good cast and special effects. Excellent DVD features
Disadvantages: Sad ending? Maybe some will see this as a disadvantage

What's the movie about? Armageddon explores the rare but real threat of a meteor impacting with Earth and wiping out civilization as we know it. The movie opens up with some great special effects of 'Golf ball' and 'Volkswagen' sized meteors raining down on New York's unsuspecting public. However the initial damage caused by this will soon by overshadowed when a meteor known as the 'Global Killer' is discovered and is only 18 days away from impacting ... Read review

Advantages: Strong Casting and Great Action
Disadvantages: One of Many save the world films

THE PLOT: The film follows a group of oil drillers who are required to save the world from an asteroid hurtling towards us which promises to wipe out man kind. They are to fly out to the asteroid and drill 200feet down and plant a nuclear bomb in the whole which should deflect the asteroid past the earth, will they make it? You will have to watch to find out..... THE CAST: The Main cast includes Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Billy ... Read review

Advantages: good action, good story, great effects
Disadvantages: not the happiest of endings!!

Firstly, a little bit about the plot. The film begins with a cool scene showing the earth being hit by a comet 65 million years ago, how they believed the dinosaurs were wiped out. This particular scene gives a good background to the rest of the film and is an dramatic start to a film packed with special effects. As we move to the present day, a space shuttle is destroyed in orbit by what they is a missile attack. Soon they discover that what ... Read review

Advantages: Bruce Willis!! So funny
Disadvantages: sad ending, I

A bunch of retards i wouldnt trust with a potato gun. This how the defense secratary discribes Harry Stanford's (Bruce Willis) men. Taken from their homes on their shore leave from drilling oil. In atempt to save the planet. But lets go back to the start! Harry Stanford has developed a extremely lucrative drilling company, drilling for oil in the various seas around the world. He also has a fantastice team of the most lovable rouges ... Read review

Advantages: All parts cast perfectly, great story, good effects
Disadvantages: It's all a bit biblical

Armageddon is a perfectly balanced film; it has comedy, action, good special effects, a strong story, a great cast, and it'll even make you cry. For those of you who haven't seen the film, it's the story of an oil Driller, Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis) who is asked by NASA to help save the world when it is discovered that an asteroid the sixe of Texas is heading our way. NASA formed a plan to drill a hole through the asteroid and plant a bomb to ... Read review

Advantages: Action Packed, Humourous and Excellent Cast
Disadvantages: Might Not Be Your Cup Of Tea

Here we have another Jerry Bruckheimer production directed by Michael Bay and starring Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler. The film opens with a space shuttle in space being struck by asteroids and consequently exploding. Further asteroids bombard New York and destroy various Skyscrapers. NASA research determines that these asteroids were mere pebbles and that an asteroid the size of Texas is to follow and will collide ... Read review

Advantages: Incredible special effects and action shots
Disadvantages: Story seen before but this ones Better.

...been done to death. Yet armageddon does it so well that almost everything alse is pointless to the story line. The charectors pull of their roles flawlessly giving a truely convincing and emotional performance on all occasions. The Action shots are incredible not only when New York and various other cities around the world are being destroyed but also the realism of the asteroid and how it does actually feel evil and menacing. When the film was ... Read review

Advantages: Non stop action, extreamly interesting storyline.
Disadvantages: The ending!!

Armageddon, Armageddon, Armageddon where do I begin. I'll tell you, I will start by saying WOT A FILM. Honest this film is one I could watch over and over again. Simply because I feel that it basically has everything you need in a film. Firstly, it has the action hero played by Bruce (the legend) Willis, who plays the father of Liv Tyler and also runs an oil rig which is in the middle of the ocean, he also is considered (in the film) to be the ... Read review

Advantages: great cast
Disadvantages: n.a

Another classic film that I loved and with a fantastic plot and cast there was nothing missing from this film. It is either a film you love it or you hate it. The all star cast including Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton and Liv Tyler and this film has a great soundtrack the most obvious one that stands out is by Aerosmith, I Don't wanna miss a thing. This film is about NASA's executive director, Dan Truman played by Billy Bob Thornton, ... Read review

Advantages: Storyline, Actors & Special Effects
Disadvantages: Nothing I can think of.

It was a few years after the release date until i saw this film, and I wish I had seen it sooner! It is definately a must see for any Bruce Willis or Ben Affleck fan! I thought it would be another terrible science-fiction film, but actually turned out to be a rather fantastic romantic and action one instead. I absolutely love the soundtrack as well, which is by Aerosmith 'Dont' Want To Miss A Thing', and the song 'Leaving On A Jet Plane'. Afterwards ... Read review

Advantages: fast paced, non-stop action and drama, excellent realistic visuals and sound
Disadvantages: predictable love scene between two characters might annoy guys a bit

...destruction but I thought that Armageddon did a much better job and also did filming and scripting in a way which made the film appeal to all audiences and not just science fiction buffs. The main characters were a very unlikely bunch anyone would expect to be selected for a NASA mission but were selected to be trained up because of their drilling experience on oil rigs, headed by their chief driller played by Bruce Willis. This made the film rather ... Read review