Armageddon (DVD)

This is one very brilliant action movie. A rogue asteroid is on its way to hit the Earth and destroy all life on the planet (even the bacteria!) The best brains in the entire world are put to work on how to save the planet. Well, this is very much an American film so all the best brains are of course concentrated at NASA in the USA. Once you can get past the idea that only America would even be aware that the world is about to be destroyed you can ...
...action sequences right from the beginning of this movie are spectacular and continue throughout the film with dramatic effect. I think a lot of special effects and stunt men will have had a lot of fun making this film. The asteroid heading towards Earth is about the size of the state of Texas and the only way to save Earth is to put a nuclear bomb on a fault line 800 feet inside the asteroid. The best driller in the world is of course Harry Stamper ...

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...was learnt that production on Armageddon and Deep Impact were well under way. Having seen both the US and UK trailers for Armageddon, I felt that perhaps I had seen all of the best bits of the film already, but I was wrong. The film still contains many more surprises. The film starts with a small meteor shower destroying a NASA shuttle, and this is just a warning of the things to come. The rest of the meteor shower comes down and takes out a few ...
...great thrilling opening, with explosions and destruction. From here we move onto the NASA scientists talking to the top people in America and confessing they new nothing of this meteor shower. This is due to the fact that there budget only allows them to watch and track a small part of the heavens. They cannot see everywhere. After some new searching, they discover a new asteroid the size of Texas, and its heading for Earth. They calculate that they ...

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Having watched this movie many moons ago, it was an unpleasant reminder to know that it was on the old beep last night. Such was my desperation at the unexpected news, that I immediately turned the TV off, put some relaxing music on and went off to sleep instantly. The film revolves around a motley bunch of oil drillers, or people who have experience in such worldly matters, who are recruited by the United States government (aren’t they always ...
...for the whole world!) to destroy an asteroid that is threatening to destroy all humanity on planet Earth by impacting with it in a few days time and blowing it to smithereens. The idea is to get these drilling experts to fly into space, land on the asteroid, plant a few nuclear bombs deep down in its core, which can then be set off. The power of the explosion would then cause such a force as to veer the asteroid off course on its path to Earth and ...

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Bloody hell! Crikey! Sweet mother of pearls! This movie is great! Acting is superb, special effects rock (no pun intended) and the script is sublime for a film of this genre. Plot is simple, asteroid size of Texas hurtling towards us, oil-riggers led by Harry (Bruce Willis..actually acting well) launched by NASA to blow it up. Kaboom The film is beautifully done, from the slight camera angles, sunsets, launchs and fantastic space setting, where ...

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...years later" Basically Armageddon is about an oil driller and his crew. Sounds a bit odd to be about an Armageddon doesn't it? Well they are hired by NASA (two words to say here.... as if! (and no, thats not a plug to go and read my opinion about that programme!). They are hired to drill a hole in a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with Earth and blow it up before it hits. As would be expected from this sort of film, you know right from the ...
...~ ====================== Armageddon gets a 4/5 rating from me. Like I said earlier, the one fault I have with the film is the latter end of the film (before the finale). It does drag on a little too long. However a 4/5 rating is a whopping 80% so translate that to educational standards.... its still an A grade film! Well worth watching, i'm glad I did. The ending is worth waiting for, even though it is both sad and happy all in one. ============ ...

Sarah_Louise 22.03.2002 · Read full review
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Action and Adventure with some great effects but this is not one of the best films I have seen Bruce Willis in. Produced By Jerry Bruckhelmer who also has was part of the brilliant due for 'The Rock'. Rated 12, 145 minutes long with hardly any bad language or violence. There is a meteorite storm that tares up New York City big time and NASA are hard at work trying to discover what is happening only to find out the there is an asteroid the size of ...
...Truman (played by Billy Bob Thornton) has only 18 days before this all happens. Their only option is to drill a hole into the core of the asteroid put a nuclear bomb inside it and blow it up, this should then split it in half and the asteroid will miss earth (easier said than done). This is were Harry Stamp is called in (Bruce Willis). At the moment he out on a oil rig with his drilling team (the best team in the world) but he is having some problems ...

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The Cast. Bruce Willis Billy Bob Thornton Liv Tyler Ben Affleck Will Patton Steve Buscemi The story NASA discover a meteor, the size of Texas, heading for Earth. If it continues to travel at the rate it is, then the Earth has 18 days, before it is obliterated. A plan is divised by NASA to save the Earth. It involves going to meet the meteor, in space, and trying to blow it up, before it reaches Earth. They believe this to be possible, by drilling ...
...middle. The device is to be activated, by detination, after they have left and are far enough away. Now they need someone who is capable of carrying this out. Yes you guessed it Bruce Willis. He only agrees on the condition that he can take his work mates with him. They are the only people he trusts, and people he has worked with for years. They are all oil drillers, so they have the experience of drilling. Of course they are not astronauts, so ...

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...option regarding this ‘film’. Armageddon is a far fetched film about a relatively large asteroid which is on a collision course with planet earth. Now there’s nothing wrong with a film being far fetched, so don’t start giving me the escapism argument. I agree, some films are aimed purely at escaping – and why not – but this film is just plain stupid. Billy Bob Thornton plays the stressed out US space commander who is monitoring the asteroids’ progress. ...
...has been played so many times I just want to go to sleep. You just know what going to come out of his mouth. Phrases like “Texas is goin bye bye Mr President” and “God bless America” spring to mind. The greatest military minds [all American of course] figure out that they can just send a “goddamn nuke” up to destroy it. It is in fact so big that if they do this, the asteroid will turn into loads of baby asteroids [which are still incidentally quite ...

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Bruce Willis is without doubt the king of the action movie, all his action films have been ratings winners so he must be doing something right. I have just finished watching Armageddon(again), and it is still a thrilling film to watch. So ok, all the hero's are American, with a token Russian good guy thrown in, but if a British film company made this movie it would be full of stars from our side of the pond. So forget about all that and concentrate ...
...really have the sort of technology to emulate the world savers in the flick), when I watch a film like this, I suspend belief and settle down for, hopefully, an enjoyable film, and this one was one of the most enjoyable films I have seen in a long time. A team of drillers/roustabouts, from an oil rig are seconded by N.A.S.A. to save the world from a rogue meteorite hurtling towards Earth,enter Bruce willis and his buddies, a motley crew of roughnecks, ...

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Armageddon is a really great film, along with deep impact another asteroid film released around the same time, this film focuses on what could be the end of the world, unless someone stops it. Step up Bruce Willis and his hard core team of ocean oil drillers, apparently they are the only ones on earth who can save it. So they go through their basic training and eventually get to go into space, but not before Ben afflek does some romancing with liv ...

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...At it's most basic, Armageddon is another action vehicle for Mr Bruce 'Die Hard' Willis to show off his action trousers, it's got big rockets, big explosions and an even bigger asteroid. Steve Buscemi adds the comedy element and is the perfect casting for the mad thrill seeking one of the bunch and Liv Tyler just makes the film worth watching for her presence alone! Look a bit deeper though and you will find a touching story which encompasses love, ...
...The film goes through various stages, it's a light-hearted action flick, then a serious thriller, then a romantic movie and this is it's one fault, it tries to be too much at once. It is as much watching how the heroes prepare for their journery into the unknown, which makes them examine their own lives, as it is about them trying to save the world. Despite this the film moves along well and eventually we are into the thick of the action on the asteroid ...

pbyron 07.09.2000 (28.03.2001) · Read full review
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You've just been asked to save the world, do you want to say no. Staring Bruce Willis, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton, Steve Buscemi and Will Patton as a group of oil drillers sent in to space to save the World from an Asteroid heading towards Earth at 1000 miles an hour. “We are not astronauts we’re oil drillers we’re not even supposed to be up here” Ben Affleck to a Russan cosmonaut sums the film up to a T, so if you want a good buy ...

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Well are you ready for this. I know most people think this is a good film but I am afraid to me it it is far too predictable. The special effects although polished are what we expect these days ad the plot is the usual US saves the world stuff. The basic plot is that a massive meteor is headed for earth and Bruce and the boys have to save us all by going up and blowing it up. The usual love interest is there as is the usual sacrifice myself for ...
...plot because it is so transparent you can geta guy with a ladder to wash it every two weeks. This film shows the lack of invention in hollywood these days. They rely on special effect and nothing else. Average film with wooden acting and the dvd is nothing special either ...

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Armageddon is one of my favorite films. I like bruce willis so I would put this film in the top ten with the special effects you will see.The story of the film starts when the space shuttle atlanta gets hit by an asteroid shower while doing routine work and blows it up, then the asteroid shower starts to hit New York. While this is happening an ateur astrolger looking through his telescope sees a massive explosion in space. He informs nasa of what ...
...find to there horror that there is a massive asteroid heading straight to earth. They calculate that it will destroy the entire planet, so a bunch of scientist get together and decide the only way to stop it is to blow it up, but using nukes would not work because the size of is to big. The only other way is to drill holes into it to the depth of about 800 meters. So they need the best core drillers in the world, this is where Bruce Willis and his ...

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Wow what a movie, if you thought Deep Impact was great you will run out of adjectives for this one, because Deep Impact was a slight dent compared to this colossus of an action movie. One of Bruce Willis' best performances can be seen here, and you want to root for him all the way through the movie. All the characters here are well portrayed, but the movies strongest points are the number of times it gets your pulse rate to go through the roof and ...
...an action packed spectacular like this it is unusual to want to be reaching for the tissues at some points, but I would advise you to get some Kleenex out for this one. A very memorable film and one of the best of any genre to come out of Hollywood for a long time. The music by Aerosmith and the soundtrack itself are a perfect compliment to this classic for your collection. Definately one to watch a few times. ...

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