ARMAGEDDON (1998) Reviewed by Jerry Saravia RATING: Two stars and a half
"Armageddon" is one of the guiltiest pleasures of my reviewing career - an obscenely loud, unnecessarily expensive, fairly exciting, often hysterical action film about meteors crashing down on Earth, notably New York City. One obscenely huge asteroid, the size of a small country, is about to crash down on Earth and destroy it. Billy Bob Thornton, in the movie's best performance, is the laconic NASA official who decides the best plan of defense is to hire...oil drillers (!) to stop the deadly asteroid by drilling a hole through its center and planting a nuclear bomb. Huh? Hey, it's only a movie, especially when the oil drillers are played by Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and the hilarious Steve Buscemi. Oh, and there's Liv Tyler as Willis's daughter, but the less said about her, the better.
"Armageddon" is silly, fast-paced, overlong, junky, nonsensical moviemaking with more cuts and fast-moving camera angles per second than ten Martin Scorsese movies cobbled together. The idea is to give you a migraine the size of an asteroid, not to entertain you. I admit I was entertained. Still, this type of plotless stupidity has its limitations in an overworked genre.
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