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Armageddon
1998
Drama
Sci-fi
2h 31m
When an asteroid is headed for Earth the world's best deep core drilling team is sent to nuke the rock from the inside.
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Armageddon
1998
Drama
Sci-fi
2h 31m
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Rated 12 Nov 2020
72
22nd
An obnoxious, brain-dead movie made even worse by that damn Aerosmith song that you couldn't escape for the next three years. The fact that this got a Criterion release will forever mystify me. Also, I'm convinced no one in Hollywood knows what "Armageddon" actually means.
Rated 12 Nov 2020
Rated 08 Jun 2007
40
4th
A giant asteroid saves the earth from Bruce Willis!
Rated 08 Jun 2007
Rated 14 Aug 2007
0
0th
Nuclear devices have to be detonated manually. Oil miners make awesome astronauts. There's no physics or gravity in space. Girls hug their fiances (who they thought were dead) like their weird old uncle Travis. And asteroids get to break all the rules. I'm giving it 1 point because it won't let me give it zero. Update: I can now give it zero. This is the best moment of my life.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 27 Mar 2008
4
0th
EXPLOSIONS! YELLING!! GO AMERICA!!! BEN AFFLECK!!!! PEARL HARBOR IN SPACE!!!!!
Rated 27 Mar 2008
Rated 29 Nov 2008
19
8th
It's hilarious to me that NASA thought it would be easier to train oil riggers to be astronauts than astronauts to be oil riggers. How do we save the world from imminent destruction? DRILL BABY, DRILL! The worst part of all this -- other than, well, all of it -- is just how many talented actors are on-board for this shitfest. A movie with this cast and this concept could be inconcievably awesome, but this script is non-stop fail. Hell, Deep Impact is better than this.
Rated 29 Nov 2008
Rated 27 Apr 2008
33
4th
An extended ejaculatory blast of noise and garishness unloaded into your face. Enjoy.
Rated 27 Apr 2008
Rated 10 May 2008
25
7th
Their space ship lands on a plate of compressed iron ferrite. What?
Rated 10 May 2008
Rated 01 Feb 2007
30
6th
Hello, I'm a dumb and shitty movie! Look at me! No, don't look away; look at me! Me!
Rated 01 Feb 2007
Rated 24 Feb 2007
6
2nd
A member of the crew, a US Demolisions specialist, forgets how to disarm a missile with the "red or green wire" cliche during this film to create superficial tension. Keep in mind this isn't a terrorist bomb but a US made nuclear device this person was TRAINED on how to disarm. Needless to say this movie is absolutely atrocious.
Rated 24 Feb 2007
Rated 09 Apr 2008
51
6th
The saddest thing about this Michael Bay 'masterpiece' is the fact that every actor of the stellar cast didn't have the backbone to say no to the huge paycheck they were offered to film this flimsy excuse of a screenplay. Over the top, an excess of loud MTV editing combined with little to no decent character development apart from the cliches the actors are dropped in. This film ,like most of the Michael Bay fare, looks good but feels flat out empty.
Rated 09 Apr 2008
Rated 23 Jan 2008
15
5th
This is the epitome of everything that is wrong with Hollywood. Only see if you think loud music, screaming, and quick cuts are essential ingredients for a film. If any of these annoy you (and they should) avoid this at all costs.
Rated 23 Jan 2008
Rated 03 Mar 2007
54
10th
Occasionally amusing, but mostly retarded. There are at least four scenes involving something being fixed at the last possible second. Very irritating. Still, if you're going to watch a huge-budget Hollywood disaster movie, this is probably the one to go with.
Rated 03 Mar 2007
Rated 17 Jan 2010
55
19th
Do you like implausible sci-fi scenarios involving asteroids? A lot of big name actors hamming it up? A rock soundtrack that just screams 90's? Liv Tyler? There's nothing remotely intelligent about Armageddon. The whole movie is like one big music video with plenty of the same excessive stylistic shots. This is Michael Bay doing what he does best..big, loud, and stupid.
Rated 17 Jan 2010
Rated 28 Nov 2006
2
21st
That it asks the viewer to earnestly consider the drama of this most haphazard scientific venture is absurd, but more confusing is that it actually takes itself only half-seriously. Each solemn moment of mass death, destruction, and tragedy is followed immediately by antics and quipping. If it leaned completely into comedy it might actually be good, but as stands it's a tolerable and often amusing blockbuster, one half-spent laughing with but otherwise laughing at in mordant disbelief.
Rated 28 Nov 2006
Rated 21 Dec 2006
30
4th
Oh good lord. One of the largest turd sandwiches ever made, this pile of balls made Bruckhiemer yet another zintillion dollars and gave the world Ben Affleck. So why not a lower score? Because it is the funniest unintentional comedies ever made, Where. Every. Single. Thing. Is. Given. Such. Dramatic. Delays. you are sure the Earth would have been destroyed five times over before they even took off. And how many times can you say you have cheered on the Giant Metorite of Dooom, just so the destru
Rated 21 Dec 2006
Rated 13 Jan 2007
40
13th
Spectacular special effects, and I still kind of like that Aerosmith song, but this movie is clichéd, cheesy and has huge plot holes.
Rated 13 Jan 2007
Rated 03 Mar 2007
3
38th
Uh, this movie is a hilarious comedy, come on.
Rated 03 Mar 2007
Rated 09 Mar 2007
65
25th
Die Hard on the moon.
Rated 09 Mar 2007
Rated 17 Aug 2009
40
5th
"Regarding the film's premise, Ben Affleck asked director Michael Bay, "Wouldn't it be easier for NASA to train astronauts how to drill rather than training drillers to be astronauts?" Bay told Affleck to shut up." Nuff said.
Rated 17 Aug 2009
Rated 28 Apr 2008
35
9th
If only Willis had screamed "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!" right before he sacrifices himself for humanity, it would've been an OK film.
Rated 28 Apr 2008
Rated 10 Jan 2010
31
22nd
No shit it's stupid, it's Michael Bay. At the same time it's kind of a glorious stupidity, like defecating out of a moving car.
Rated 10 Jan 2010
Rated 11 Jan 2010
80
34th
Guilty pleasure. I enjoy its everyman theme and silly pretensions. Entertaining schlock, with script-doctored characters who jump off the frame.
Rated 11 Jan 2010
Rated 14 Aug 2007
15
1st
Why would someone mount a machine gun on a space buggy? I am still awaiting an explanation Mr. Bay.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 14 Aug 2007
37
10th
OMG! A giant meteor is going to destroy the earth and only Harrison Ford and Aerosmith can save the world. Oh wait, that was the Robot Chicken parody. It was better than this stinker. Why? Steve Buscemi, why?
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 29 Apr 2017
80
77th
I'm Juror #8 and I'm about to show you all how wrong you are about Armageddon:
Rated 29 Apr 2017
Rated 13 Feb 2008
25
13th
I wish a Texas-sized asteroid would land on Ben Affleck.
Rated 13 Feb 2008
Rated 30 Jun 2020
55
24th
All the reviews shitting on faulty space logic and the numerous plot holes are clearly forgetting that Dudes Rock. Steve Buscemi firing a machine gun in space? Dudes rock. Ben Affleck being depressed about his girlfriend in space? Dudes rock.
Rated 30 Jun 2020
Rated 06 Nov 2010
24
5th
Fuck yeah America! Fuck yeah America is the only nation capable of stopping Armageddon! Fuck yeah Russia is so shit their space station is like a floating turd! Fuck yeah Ben Affleck is a great actor! Fuck yeah lets ignore all scientific laws! Fuck yeah, all it takes to train astronauts is a goddamn montage! I could continue...
Rated 06 Nov 2010
Rated 12 Dec 2006
65
17th
It's not that bad, but it tries so hard to be so much that everything comes off silly and ham fisted. The romance plot is predictable and forced, the disaster premise is nonsensical and every character is a bizarre stereotype.
Rated 12 Dec 2006
Rated 13 Jan 2007
50
31st
Michael bay eats his own boogers
Rated 13 Jan 2007
Rated 31 Jul 2009
20
17th
Dumb, dumb, dumb. This movie sucked. Plot was preposterous and acting was hammy. I gave it some points for F/X, which were ok.
Rated 31 Jul 2009
Rated 22 Jul 2008
0
2nd
Michael Bay's masterpiece (Believe me, that's not saying anything). Plus, did it need to be that long?
Rated 22 Jul 2008
Rated 02 Mar 2007
25
8th
A bunch of oil riggers make fun of Greenpeace and are then contracted to save the world by nuking an asteroid. This is one of the the most neoconservative piece of media I've ever seen.
Rated 02 Mar 2007
Rated 21 Jan 2010
25
4th
I liked Steve Buscemi's character. And nothing else. Oh yeah, meteors don't work that way.
Rated 21 Jan 2010
Rated 25 Jul 2009
15
7th
Just as its name suggests, Armageddon is the daddy of all disaster movies. The script is a disaster, the directing is a disaster, in fact it's a disaster from start to finish.
Rated 25 Jul 2009
Rated 11 Jul 2007
30
7th
Bruce Willis takes Steve Buscemi to an asteroid. Buscemi freaks out and starts shooting rocks and people. Good fun for the whole family.
Rated 11 Jul 2007
Rated 21 Jul 2009
10
2nd
No. No no no. This movie is like a virus in my brain, and it HURTS. It hurts my brain when shuttles explode, in space, for no reason. It hurts when Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler spew their "acting" all over the screen. And it's just excruciating when I try to watch a high-suspense scene about an astronaut who FALLS DOWN A WELL. IN SPACE. It's not fun, it's not exciting, it's not even watchable. Ten points for Bruce Willis, who technically appears in this movie, even if no one told him that.
Rated 21 Jul 2009
Rated 23 Jan 2009
9
4th
As my friend MoleDMC would say: "Grab yourself another sugar sandwich..."
Rated 23 Jan 2009
Rated 02 Jul 2008
45
11th
Michael Bay at his worst. It's Deep Impact with an extra hour of stupid dialog and budget inflating stars.
Rated 02 Jul 2008
Rated 14 Aug 2007
30
11th
Overblown piece of shit with lame effects and a stupid, one dimensional story. Bruce Willis and Liv Tyler are both particularly bad.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 21 Sep 2010
50
16th
A piece of shit. Some of it can be enjoyed if you completey shut off your brain (it's easier to train oil workers to be astronauts than astronauts to be oil workers?!) but some parts are just so ridiculously stupid its hard to get past.
Rated 21 Sep 2010
Rated 14 Aug 2007
30
18th
Was I supposed to care about anyone in this film? I'll file this under "one and done," because there's absolutely no need to go back if you make it through this too-long disaster movie once.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 14 Aug 2007
4
35th
America, fuck yeah.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 14 Aug 2007
40
18th
Did they really have to cram the soundtrack full of Aerosmith songs just because Liv Tyler was starring in it?
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 19 Mar 2011
15
3rd
When you think it can't get any worse, Steven Tyler sells his soul.
Rated 19 Mar 2011
Rated 14 Aug 2007
22
6th
I hated this movie. Every chance something can go wrong, it does. That shit gets annoying. Also, a lot of people I know like/d this movie, and that fueled my dislike as well.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 27 Oct 2011
51
27th
I gave this movie about 30 extra points just for Bruce Willis hitting golf balls at a Green Peace boat off an oil rig.
Rated 27 Oct 2011
Rated 06 Feb 2012
80
88th
"Mommy, mommy - the salesman is on TV!" "It's not a salesman, it's your father!" I fucking love it!
Rated 06 Feb 2012
Rated 14 Aug 2007
23
7th
In a fully surround THX theater this movie is really cool. If you don't see it in that context however, it sucks.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 27 Aug 2008
60
29th
Sure this movie is bad, but it's the height of mindless entertainment! The cast is great and there's lots of cheesy one-liners among the physical and non-sensical mayhem. Like every other Bay film, it takes itself way too seriously and acts like their is some kind of important message to relay, but the main group of characters has a ball with this. Willis and Buscemi in particular are great. Everything is forced, staged, and filled with over-the-top emotional schlop, but unapologetically so.
Rated 27 Aug 2008
Rated 14 Aug 2007
35
11th
The movie where everything goes wrong, logic has no place, and dramatic longshots happen every five minutes. Ho-ly crap this was an abomination.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 26 Jan 2017
80
74th
A master class in pulling heart-strings, if not in Astro-physics .... but hey, who would have thought that getting decimated on an asteroid 200,000 miles from earth could be so much fun? In 1999, there was a US wide shortage of the "right stuff" as a result of this load of ol' nonsense ... but hey, Steve Buscemi is wonderful, and Liv Tyler is hard not to fall in love with. Sure, rip it apart on so many levels if you want, but just be aware if you do that you are the wrong audience for it anyway!
Rated 26 Jan 2017
Rated 26 Dec 2008
40
7th
This movie is just so loud and abrasive. I'm not just talking about the pointless explosions (which are many), but even the dialogue feels more like each character either shouting smartass (usually lame) quips to no one or emoting in hyperbolic excess rather than an actual conversation.
Rated 26 Dec 2008
Rated 10 Feb 2012
47
17th
I've never finished it. I love WIllis, but the line, "We need the best deep sea drill team," has become a running gag in my household for absurd solutions.
Rated 10 Feb 2012
Rated 17 Aug 2013
30
12th
Effective public health warning about the dangers of space dementia. Also, a father learns to accept his daughter's independence and the inevitability of his own mortality. Aside from that, a fantasy about some regular joes who hitch a ride into space and save the world. Loud and frenetic, but a likeable cast and occasional humour go some way to distracting attention from the formulaic narrative. Not a good film, but not really much worse than numerous other more highly-regarded blockbusters.
Rated 17 Aug 2013
Rated 04 Jan 2008
66
32nd
If this is the best we can do bring on the Asteroid !
Rated 04 Jan 2008
Rated 17 Apr 2009
5
20th
(after repeat viewings) Michael Bay movies need to be discussed and studied in film school. Am I kidding? I don’t know, am I?
Rated 17 Apr 2009
Rated 16 Aug 2008
16
13th
A typical Michael Bay fair boosted by Willis and Duncan but brought quickly down to earth by the pure irritation of watching Affleck and Tyler bluff their way through the entire film. Bloody hell they're bad. As for the rest of the film, Bay takes a decent idea and once again runs away with it packing in as many explosions and incomprensible incompitence over the whole space trip as possible. Somebody tell Bay that crappy romantic melodrama and explosions don't mix when you have zero talent.
Rated 16 Aug 2008
Rated 09 May 2010
20
6th
Salvation would be possible for this film if Willis and Affleck had had a love affair in outer space fucking up all possible family relations. That - and that only - would've given this any kind of edge. Bah.
Rated 09 May 2010
Rated 11 Feb 2009
85
19th
Eh..it's alright
Rated 11 Feb 2009
Rated 20 Nov 2008
85
25th
Schlock Level: dangerously high. Science: where? One-liners: epic success! Ensemble Casting: about 80% done right. Visual effects: very, very nice. Soundtrack: can I please, please just UNhear that damn Aerosmith power ballad??? A decent time-waster for a slow day, 'Armageddon' also makes an excellent target for MST3K-style viewing parties.
Rated 20 Nov 2008
Rated 16 May 2007
10
1st
really bad
Rated 16 May 2007
Rated 08 Mar 2009
82
38th
Could be better if Bruce Willis has kept Ben Affleck on the meteor...
Rated 08 Mar 2009
Rated 20 Aug 2013
20
17th
Mildly pokes fun at the American worker who would never voluntarily pay taxes but will jump at the opportunity to defend The Greatest Country In The World from something some guy in a suit tells him is a threat. Not much to see here, just three hours worth of ridiculously calculated blockbuster action.
Rated 20 Aug 2013
Rated 17 Oct 2010
30
13th
"This is so much fun it's freaky!" Wrong!
Rated 17 Oct 2010
Rated 14 Aug 2007
81
74th
Love it or Hate it, this movie was THE MOVIE when I was in middle school. It's popcorn fun at its grandest. Granted, it's too long for it's own good, but it has its moments of brilliant cheesiness that elevates it above other movies of its kind.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 03 Sep 2009
67
42nd
Run of the mill 'Bunch of brave guys save the world' movie. Routine male camaraderie between brave guys. Movie tries to emotionally manipulate you in every which way. But so what - it's Bruce Willis and he is blowing up stuff in space - so not so bad.
Rated 03 Sep 2009
Rated 14 Aug 2007
15
7th
Icky. And, stupid. And, icky again. Plus, it has that Aerosmith song. Phooey.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 22 Sep 2008
65
19th
Dumb movie but entertaining.
Rated 22 Sep 2008
Rated 14 Aug 2007
15
12th
What rot. It's kinda fun out in space which giant chunks of rock flying about, though.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
Rated 21 Jul 2010
100
92nd
" Get off... the nuclear... warhead. " Besides, best cast ever. Best soundtrack ever. Aerosmith
Rated 21 Jul 2010
Rated 07 Oct 2012
69
31st
Michael bays first attempt at sci fi.Set the stage for the following transformers movies. The director proved that he was and still is one of the 3 or 4 dominating box office directors in Hollywood.No matter how bad or cheesy the movie is, throw in big effects and a 200 million dollar budget and money will be made. Quite a talent. Kudos for that. Even tho some of his movies are SO bad and this has some really bad moments as well, overall still very enjoyable.But seriosuly, who hasnt seen this?
Rated 07 Oct 2012
Rated 27 Mar 2010
20
4th
This film must hold the record for the amount of corny lines crammed into one hilarious cheesefest. Trey Parker and Matt Stone couldn't have made this film any funnier if they'd have made it as a piss take. A contender for the most lethal drinking game ever devised - take a sip every time something cringeworthy is said. You can see Bruce Willis wince.
Rated 27 Mar 2010
Rated 04 Sep 2011
85
77th
Not a good film. But so damn entertaining.
Rated 04 Sep 2011
Rated 06 Jun 2009
85
87th
Yeah I know, it's Michael Bay. Yeah, Bruce Willis didn't like his daughter's boyfriend at the beginning, so lame. Oh yeah, he sacrificed himself, so cliche. But this is an entertaining movie and I never get bored of watching it. And this movie introduced me to many stars when I was a kid: Ben Affleck, Owen Wilson, Steve Buscemi, Michael Clarke Duncan and William 'underrated' Fichtner
Rated 06 Jun 2009
Rated 27 Dec 2008
50
1st
What movies look like when you have too much money to throw at them. See Danny Boyle's "Sunshine" for a much better mission-in-space, save-the-world flm with some darker elements and an Aerosmith-free soundtrack.
Rated 27 Dec 2008
Rated 15 Oct 2014
56
11th
On one hand, this bears many of Bay's worst trademarks: hyperactive, even incoherent editing and camerawork, terrible writing, stereotypical characters and an asinine sense of humor. On the other hand, compared to many of his later works, it looks pretty damn good; the crudeness isn't quite so alienating, and the spectacle doesn't feel quite so artificial. On the whole, it's still not a good film, but as mindless action, it provides enough entertainment--especially when Peter Stormare is around.
Rated 15 Oct 2014
Rated 28 Aug 2007
8
24th
Popcorn. No, more like cheese. Yeah, that's the ticket - nachos. Could have been a LOT better. Entertaining for all of that.
Rated 28 Aug 2007
Rated 29 May 2010
45
14th
It's a good movie but the ending just ruins it. The usual USA patriotic mixed with over emotional stuff just doesn't work. I would give this 80-90, but 'cause of the ending I put it this way.
Rated 29 May 2010
Rated 19 Dec 2011
65
51st
6+ recommended
Rated 19 Dec 2011
Rated 31 May 2008
85
81st
realli good film full of action and emotion with a great soundtrack provided by Aeromsith
Rated 31 May 2008
Rated 20 Jan 2016
26
37th
liv tyler crying & touching the television screen, tho.
Rated 20 Jan 2016
Rated 21 Dec 2009
55
16th
Pretty much the only Michael Bay film that I find slightly above tolerable. It's still pretty stupid... But hey, nostaligia... and I had a big crush on Liv Tyler when it came out.
Rated 21 Dec 2009
Rated 02 Mar 2008
25
3rd
Hacky Hollywood blow-up. Makes you root for the asteroid.
Rated 02 Mar 2008
Rated 12 May 2015
3
8th
This is where Michael Bay started farting out movies, and he hasn't stopped ever since.
Rated 12 May 2015
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