Movie Review

ARMAGEDDON (1998)

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | Jul 17, 1998

Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

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Details Rateds: PG-13, R; Genres: Action/Adventure, Disaster, Sci-fi; With: Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler and Bruce Willis; More

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ARMAGEDDON (PG-13) In this month's insolently bombastic will-an- asteroid-collide-with-Earth thriller, U.S. military honchos scramble to find someone to save our precious planet, and the best they can come up with is an oil driller (Bruce Willis). His mission? To land on the offending rock and drill 800 feet into the surface, so that a nuclear weapon can blow the mother into two pieces. Watching the movie, you get the feeling that the director, Michael Bay, wants to drill the audience. Bay doesn't stage scenes, exactly -- he stages moments. But then, at Armageddon, a bogus rah-rah spectacle, all that's supposed to matter is that you're in the moment. The men in Willis' misfit-renegade team are third-generation Xeroxes of cliches from a year or two ago. C

Originally posted Jul 17, 1998 Published in issue #441 Jul 17, 1998 Order article reprints

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