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One of my favorite movies, watched it like 10 times.

This is just a great, feel-good, let's eat some animal crackers and save the world kind-of-film! It's got great action, ridiculously amusing character comedy, and come on- they save the freaking world! Ok, ok, so it's not rocket science, or is it? I love the ensemble cast in this one. Pop some popcorn, or get some animal crackers, and ENJOY it! ;)

I find all the anti-Michael Bay trolls hilarious. He makes big budget action movies; if you don't like those kind of movies don't watch. No one is forcing you to. I appreciate a deep meaningful drama as much as the next discerning movie watcher. But if you can't sit back and enjoy a good bit of action you're a loser of magnificent proportions who fancies themselves a film-festival critic.

I love this movie. One of my top fives.

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Just awful. It seems as if the makers of this film have never been in a physics class their entire life. I'm no scientist but..... wow. When normal uneducated Americans can tare your film apart for it's inaccuracies there is something wrong. Not to mention the entire concept of training drillers to be astronauts as opposed to training astronauts to be drillers is not only absurd but now even believable enough to enjoy the movie. Bottom line, great actors (for the most part), terrible story and execution.

All that money gone to waste for a movie with a predictable subpar plot, with mediocre acting at best.

It started with "The Dirty Dozen" and continues to this day: a group of misfits, rejects, outcasts, lowlifes, and undesirables possess a unique skill set required to save humanity from destruction. The situation, as always, elevates the misfits over the mindless bureaucrats who reluctantly have to turn to them.

Bruce Willis is Harry Stamper, the world's best oil driller. He is called upon by NASA, in the persona of Billy Bob Thornton (Dan Truman), the red-tape cutter who assembles our heroes. Keith David (Lt. Gen. Kimsey) plays to type as a Colin Powell clone whose orders are to destroy the mission whenever possible, while William Fichtner is Col. Sharp, a bureaucrat at heart who still thinks when necessary. Stamper's crew includes the men from his oil company, an ensemble of Ben Affleck (A.J., his future son-in-law), Michael Clarke Duncan ("Papa Bear," a jolly black Giant), Ken Hudson "Quiznos Baby Bob" Campbell (Max, a grown up, dumbed down version of Bob), Owen Wilson (Oscar, the space-cadet geologist), Steve Buschemi ("Rockhound," and the guy you know your daughter will talk to despite your warnings), and Will Patton (Chick). These men have worked together for years and are like family.

The "armageddon" project is based on current events, namely the realization that it's only a matter of time before earth is struck yet again, with most life forms not surviving. In the movie, there is 17 days to train the crew, fly them to the asteroid, and have them drill an 800 foot hole, into which a nuclear warhead is detonated, hopefully splitting the asteroid. Along the way, they pick up Peter Stormare (Lev), the Russian space station cosmonaut who gives the mission its international flavor, while reminding us that Russian astronauts are superior to American oil drillers.

The cinematography is what makes the film work. The plot plays out very predictably, as most movies of this type do. You won't be surprised by what you see, but you will be amazed at the visuals and snicker more than occasionally, as the egalitarian message of the film is driven home.

A good, not great, movie, but hardly one you need to avoid.

Had a mediocre story, average acting, and alright effects make this film OK.

Can I have my time back?