A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.
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Remember Armageddon? That was a great movie about an asteroid on its way to earth. an action movie to be precise. this movie has the same background story but puts its focus on a couple of random people and their fates. but some of their story line feel forced and the outcome was no surprise. at least they are trying to be more realistic in terms of what could happen in such event. overall the movie is just okay... not really bad but also not great. you might watch it once on the tv and then probably never again
The glowing reviews for this manipulative, scientifically dubious, dreadfully put together piece of drivel are very amusing. Could not be more generic. There is one scene in this horrible abortion than pretty much sums up every cliché' ever-the "holding our breath in the control room" scene every half assed sci fi contains, inevitably followed by the melodramatic, last second success of the mission, and the requisite cheering and hugging. You can set your watch by it. Actually, you can predict every scenario and scene in this dreary thing. And please, somebody put a mirror under Tea Leone's nose so we can ascertain if she's still alive.
And i have seen a lot's of sci-fi movies. Plenty of plot holes and anyone with healthy brain will see them. It was really awful to watch. There were parts of the movie i enjoyed but were quickly overrun by something bad. Also pacing in this movie is weird. Everything happens in the end of the movie. I recommend to not watch this movie at all
Deep Impact is an Armageddon-like movie where a comet is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth and a group of astronauts go to try to blow it up. They land on it and drill into it and put a nuclear bomb in it and blow it up. This blows it into two pieces which are still headed for Earth and big enough to cause catastrophic damage. The first piece hits in the Atlantic Ocean and generates a gigantic tsunami which destroys New York City and other things. The second is blown up by the astronauts flying into it and detonating a nuclear bomb on the ship. The special effects in the movie are very good. Especially the giant wave effects. They're terrifying.
