Armageddon (1998)
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 82
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 50
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Average Rating: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 16
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Michael Bay (The Rock) directed this science fiction action thriller in the When Worlds Collide tradition. After astronomy students discover a comet-asteroid collision, an asteroid fragment "the size of the Super Dome" threatens. It's destroyed by a secret USA defense in space, but a large chunk veers off toward Singapore. With another asteroid "the size of Texas" en route, a plan is devised to send oil drillers to land on the asteroid and drop a nuclear device down a 1000-foot shaft, a scheme
Jul 1, 1998 Wide
Jan 5, 1999
Buena Vista
Cast
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Bruce Willis
Harry S. Stamper -
Billy Bob Thornton
Dan Truman -
Liv Tyler
Grace Stamper -
Ben Affleck
A.J. Frost -
Will Patton
Charles (Chick) Chapple -
Peter Stormare
Lev Andropov -
Keith David
Gen. Kimsey -
Steve Buscemi
Rockhound -
Owen Wilson
Oscar Choi -
William Fichtner
Col. William Sharp -
Jessica Steen
Co-Pilot Jennifer Watts -
Jason Isaacs
Ronald Quincy -
Ken Hudson Campbell
Max Lennert -
Grayson McCouch
Gruber -
Clark Heathcliffe Brolly
Freddy Noonan -
Marshall R. Teague
Colonel Davis -
Chris Ellis
Walter Clark -
Eddie Griffin
Little Guy -
Michael Clarke Duncan
Jayotis (Bear) Kurleenb... -
John Mahon
Karl -
Grace Zabriskie
Dottie -
Udo Kier
Psychologist -
Seiko Matsuda
Asian Tourist (Female) -
Lawrence Tierney
Hollis Vernon (Grap) St... -
Charlton Heston
Narrator -
Ellen Cleghorne
Helga (the Nurse) -
Anthony Guidera
Tucker Shuttle Independ... -
Judith Hoag
Denise
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All Critics (90) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (33) | Rotten (53) | DVD (28)
Bruce Willis saves the world but can't save "Armageddon."
Top CriticThis idiotic film is loud, boorish and smart enough to relish its own lunkhead bravado...
Bay loves to place the camera in the path of meteors or pieces of spaceships or airborne cars. Did one of these projectiles conk him on his noggin? Is that why "Armageddon" is so utterly and thoroughly incompetent?
I hate Armageddon for what it is: the unholy spawn of The Dirty Dozen and Con Air.
Sporadically watchable, it's at its best at those infrequent moments when it doesn't take itself too seriously.
Along with the rest of the audience, I jumped when I was meant to jump, laughed when I was meant to laugh, and swallowed a lump in my throat when I was meant to feel moved.
An often loud, bright, irritating and occasionally intrusive film...
A silly, noisy, overlong, star-driven popcorn movie about the end of the world
The color-corrected Life magazine pictorial-style imagery and excessive use of slo-mo are far more annoying than they are easy on the eyes, and the hyperactive editing is unbearable. [Blu-ray]
It's easy to be sucked in by all the glossy, nostalgic images that flash across the screen like some sort of psychological experiment, but like most of the director's other films, most is forgettable shortly thereafter.
It's noisy, glossy, and excessive, and more than a tad simplistic -- but it's also nearly irresistible.
I've seen better Bruckheimer and Bay films, but this one still manages to entertain.
...this is a critic-proof crowd-pleaser that purposely intones God, Mom, and apple pie before pushing every other jingoistic, proto-patriotic button out there.
Of all the Michael Bay films out there, Armageddon is the Michael Bayest.
Not awful.
A Godzilla-sized blockbuster -- it's an outrageous spectacle, without many brains to speak of, but its heart in the right place.
Where things fall apart are the scenes that try to put in characterisation, and, God help us, comic relief.
Armabludgeon is like a roller coast--occasionally exciting, but in the end you've been taken for a long, nauseating ride.
Tenso e com bons efeitos visuais, o filme funciona como diversão (apesar dos clichês).
Audience Reviews for Armageddon
Super Reviewer
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- Narrator: This is the Earth, at a time when dinosaurs roamed a lush & fertile planet. But the piece of rock just six miles wide changed all that. It hit with the force of ten thousand nuclear weapons. A trillion tons of dirt & rock hurtled into the atmosphere creating a suffocating blanket of dust the Sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years. It happened before, it will happen again, it's just a question of when.
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- Charles (Chick) Chapple: [to Rockhound] Get off the nuclear warhead.
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- Karl: Sir I'm a retired Navy, I know a lot about classified. but one more thing, the person who finds her gets to name her right?
- Dan Truman: Yes, that's right.
- Karl: I want to name her Dottie after my wife, she's a vicious life sucking bitch from which there is no escape.
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- Harry S. Stamper: [Harry says to his fellow drillers] I know we have to go. We can all just sit here on Earth, wait for this big rock to crash into it, kill everything and everybody we know. United States government just asked us to save the world. Anybody want to say 'no'?
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- Rockhound: Just tryin' to have some fun before I die!
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- A.J. Frost: Oscar? Oscar? [cries]
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- Armageddon - Das jüngste Gericht (DE)
Second best Bay film after 'The Rock' for me and his biggest hit I think, certainly blasted him into the stratosphere no pun intended hehe. the visuals here are brilliant, really cool looking and believeable in places from the machines to the suits. Its not totally genuine looking of course, it has that kind of 'Batman Forever' quality to it, big, shiny, in your face but somehow cool looking even though it shouldn't be.
The cast is another great line up, Bay seems to be able to get these teams together and they all gel well which equal some unique characters...Wilson, Duncan, Buscemi and Patton being the best.
Brilliant scenes in space, very tense and some admittedly lump in the throat inducing as the film goes on, you really do feel for them as they struggle against the odds. The best scene for me is the recruiting sequence at the start where all the misfits are gathered together for the job haha then you got the fast track training, so so good. Dead pan Thornton plays the game well in those scenes :)
The beginning may be better than the space action actually, the motley crew really shine in those early scenes and you have fun with these relaxed sequences...before the impending doom.
Very good all the way, your typical blockbuster with every cliche and stereotype you can muster plus some good old 'God Bless America' slapped on top just incase you forget America always saves the world...always. Really challenges 'Independence Day' for that all American Stars n Stripes baloney but there isn't any Presidential action in this film sooooo. The fact its based on true possibilities makes it even better, gives you something to think about on the way home.