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

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Armageddon
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By Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

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


Posted Jul 17, 1998
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