Review of Armageddon (1997) by Finn M — 19 Jul 2012
An over-protective dad, a silly arrogant girl with some esoteric form of vanity and a typical space related apocalypse that reverts the earth back to a ball of gas, this film is less then bad. The plot goes as such.
A meteorite is heading to earth and as custom, NASA needs to stop it, priding the US is an obvious patriotic point of this film. They decide that NASA men, astronaut or men of science is not enough to stop the incoming threat, they decide that they must call on a bunch of misfits who have exclusive talents.
Harry S. Stamper (Bruce Willis) is on an oil rig, they need his drilling skills to disperse the meteorite and save the earth. Bruce Willis has a level of acting talent in this action-flick but the reserves are undeveloped southern US caricatures such as Liv Tyler as the grumpy daughter who seems to think with her groin first and her head second and a semi-hillbilly pervert.
The action scenes are loud, badly scoped, mistakes are littered through the film such as the spelling of override as "OVERRRIDE" adding an extra R. The script is typical and is of the quality of a bad Saturday morning cartoon, with slow quips and cheap locales aplenty.
In Michael Bay fashion there are plenty of explosions however implemented for the sake of lazy thrills. Overall this film is "Bad to the bone" literally.
This review of Armageddon (1997) was written by Finn M on 19 Jul 2012.
Armageddon has generally received mixed reviews.
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