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Deep Impact (1998)

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33

Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 4

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51

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Average Rating: 2.9/5
User Ratings: 319,385

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Movie Info

Mimi Leder (The Peacemaker) directed this science-fiction disaster drama about the possible extinction of human life after a comet is discovered headed toward Earth with the collision only one year away. Ambitious MSNBC reporter Jenny Lerner (Tea Leoni) stumbles onto the story, prompting a White House press conference. United States President Beck (Morgan Freeman) announces the government's solution: a team of astronauts will travel to the comet and destroy it. The team leader aboard the

Dec 15, 1998

Paramount Home Video

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All Critics (75) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (27) | DVD (22)

a little too melodramatic

April 24, 2008

Disaster movies are trim and exciting or they're nothing, and Deep Impact isn't trim or exciting.

July 30, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment (1)
eFilmCritic.com

The joy of any catastrophe flick is watching the world that annoys you so much get its due.

September 11, 2005 Full Review | Comment (1)
Entertainment Asylum

Malignant and insensate, it's already too far gone for treatment.

January 19, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central
Film Freak Central

Sin intención artística, el guión logra su objetivo.

June 6, 2004 Full Review Source: Cinenganos
Cinenganos

Unlike Armageddon, this film possesses a plot. Granted, it is the insipid plot of a made-for-TV miniseries, but at least it is an actual, tangible plot.

August 11, 2003
AboutFilm.com

a crockful of hard-to-swallow melodrama... It would have been much more fun to drop in on the folks who elected to party like it's never gonna be 1999.

June 23, 2002 Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette
Kalamazoo Gazette

Parece que a diretora Mimi Leder realmente acreditou que seus personagens fossem interessantes, bem como a história. Não são.

May 31, 2002 Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena
Cinema em Cena

A disaster film where some the lead characters practice kindness,courage and compassion in unique ways.

March 2, 2002 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice
Spirituality and Practice

One could say Deep Impact is an above average action movie or an average drama...any movie with Morgan Freeman is president is OK by me.

October 24, 2001 Full Review

If you must ask for whom the bell tolls, you'll find the answer here.

April 2, 2001 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
eFilmCritic.com

Mimi Leder's end-of-the-world pic places intelligent human dramas -- how people really feel and react to life-threatening situations -- above predictable histrionics.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews
rec.arts.movies.reviews

The characters they've chosen to focus on are so thin and uninteresting (and sometimes downright irritating), all you're left to root for is the comet's speedy arrival.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Film Journal International
Film Journal International

The direction and script is so confusing and so riddled with holes that you'll spend the hour after the movie discussing all of its problems with your date and friends.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Internet Reviews
Internet Reviews

For all the money ($80 million) spent on this early mid-year entry, all you, the viewer, get is Dull Impact.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Nitrate Online
Nitrate Online

The first of the '90s disaster films to successfully marry the advanced film technology with emotions that ring true.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
TheMovieReport.com

Oceans rise, cities fall, subtlety dies.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Needcoffee.com
Needcoffee.com

Somehow it works. Perhaps it's the balance that's struck between human heroism and the overwhelming power of nature.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Apollo Guide

Audience Reviews for Deep Impact

I'll never forget when the topic of conversation was "Which do you like better? Deep Impact or Armageddon?" Seems like "Armageddon" won....I'll take both, but between the two, I always preferred "Deep Impact."
January 15, 2012
stormyweather980

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Released just two months before Armageddon, this film was made to make money. They took a common and popular idea and ran the cheesiest story possible but lacked any drama and empathy. A sham for Morgan Freeman.
July 26, 2006
StarCrossedVoyager

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    1. Robin Lerner: Daddy! (a primal scream)
    – Submitted by Kent E (23 months ago)

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