Mynameisroman
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
Tony
It's entertaining in it's own way, not a waste of time. But crazy in some respects, you give a 3 minute warning of impending doom once you've got to the bunker. Not a two weeks from now, me and a million elite chosen ones are off to safety. Unless you've guaranteed an elite military force they and families are included, otherwise you've no army or police, you're going nowhere. Another thing, do Americans really spend so much time saying I love you to each other. If so it's no wonder you made an industry out of psychology. Americans love candy coatings, but Europeans find it a bit sickly when overdone.
Robert J. Maxwell
Nice cast, especially Téa Leoni, as a fledgling reporter who catches an important story for TV news, and Morgan Freeman, as president of the United States, caught between a rock and a bigger rock.Téa Leoni was never a bravura actress. Her emotional range varies from casual, matter of fact, to slightly perturbed. It doesn't matter. Those incandescent incisors. How I would love to see her eat corn on the cob at an Iowa picnic. Her sleek features are just about perfectly arranged and clothing seems to drape itself loosely but eagerly around her slender form.Freeman is fine as well. Even those who have been repelled by the idea of an African-American president must admit that this is the kind of president you want to be able to lean on in times of crisis -- and CAN. Unlike Leoni Freeman has a broad range as an actor. Polite and reserved in "Driving Miss Daily" and a vicious pimp who kicks you in the family jewels in "Street Smart." Robert Duvall is the pilot of a space craft trying to destroy a monstrous comet on its way to inflict more punishment on the earth than human beings already have. Unfortunately Duval is in his dry period with little to do except the occasional arid chuckle. Too bad because he's been capable of some fine performances. Max Schell is bulkier than we remember but is one of the finest actors of his generation. He's given no chance to prove it here. Still, it's Noah's Ark time around the world.Let's see. I think that gets the good part out of the way. It's actually a pretty dumb movie, an unhealthy blend of rude science fiction and bathos. The plot is cobbled together from most other disaster movies you've seen. There's even a motorcycle racing away from an onrushing tsunami which is copped, I think, from "Earthquake," in which Los Angeles gets it. Vanessa Redgrave, an elegant matron, takes a long time before the disaster, carefully dressing, applying make up, wearing her most expensive but subdued jewelry, and then sits back in her opulent apartment to wait for it. ("On the Beach.") The least bearable part is when a two-year darkness appears about ready to engulf the earth and extinguish life. Fortunately, earth's governments have had time to drill and stock labyrinthine caverns in the limestone landscapes. In the United States the caves will accommodate some 3,000 survivors, including about 800 scientists and artists. The 3,000 will be chosen strictly at random. (Why do I doubt this?) No one over fifty allowed. Here I was experiencing nightmarish visions of Doctor Strangelove and his Gemeinschaft Gesellschaft. "Of course dzha WIMMEN vood heff to be of a highly STIMULATING nature!" The random plan means splitting up families and loved ones. Now I was worried about "When World's Collide" with a selfish and bitter billionaire offering to fund salvation only if he goes first. But no! When the time comes to bus the Select to their caves, it seems that NOBODY WANTS TO GO. Nope. They can't leave their loved ones behind -- their babies, their husbands, grand dad in his dotage. There's a great deal of sobbing. Kids are torn from their mother's arms. The armed and uniformed footmen of Unit Orange 245 must use their M-16s to force the survivors to get aboard.But not to worry. The world doesn't end -- yet. There is a disaster, yes, but a small one, a tidal waves that clears the coastal plan of the eastern United States of all the accumulated detritus. But Duval, his four or five passengers, decide to dive directly into the comet and blow it to smithereens with the nukes they have aboard. Plenty of time or parting words with the families via television. Tears abound. "Whatever you do, wherever you go, I'll always be beside you." God, I hope not.
nuoipter termer
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.
