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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, July 8, 1998
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Movie Review
Armageddon predictable, improbable
Movie's plot bores and action scenes lack excitement
By Jeremy M. Doherty Kansan movie critic
Stacked with gruff heroes, snappy one-liners and relentless shots of the American flag, Armageddon is a summer blockbuster. Surprisingly, very little of the testosterone-drenched
Bruce Willis stars as Harry S. Stamper, a deep core oil driller and Earth's only hope. An asteroid will annihilate all life on Earth unless Stamper can find a way to blow it to kingdom come. Contributed Photo
pyrotechnics in Michael Bay's asteroid epic rate higher than a raised eyebrow on the curiosity meter. Every explosion or relationship in Armageddon is tightly choreographed and filmed with embarrassing predictability. Audiences should bring decks of cards to keep busy with while the plot machinery rumbles.
The movie begins with a 2001-style shot of the earth from outer space as Charlton Heston's voice lectures about the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. It happened once, Ben-Hur drones, and it will happen again.
Armageddon, which is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Contributed Photo
Landing on the surface of an asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth, a team of drillers plant nuclear explosives in the action film
Sure enough, a storm of rocks makes minemeetau of New York, and U.S. bureaucrats put themselves on alert. A huge rock the size of Texas managed to bypass all of NASA's detection technology and is hurtling toward a date with the Earth.
NASA calls in Bruce Willis, the best deep-core driller in the world. How it determined that is anybody's guess. Perhaps there is some sort of Championship Drilling Bowl held annually in Cleveland.
course in Astronautics 101. The plan is that Willis and his buddies, who together look like they wandered in off the set of a Budweiser commercial, are going to rocket into space and land on the rock. They will drill a huge hole, drop off a warhead and fly home in a blaze of glory.
Willis and his team of roughnecks, which includes Steve Buscemi from Reservoir Dogs and Ben Affleck from Good Will Hunting, spend about 45 minutes of movie time receiving a crash
Plot improbabilities aside, director Bay soaks the few emotional elements of *Armageddon*, such as a romantic subplot between Affleck and Willis' daughter (an underused
Liv Tyler) in enough schmaltz to choke Steven Spielberg.
Furthermore, Bay, a veteran of music videos and commercials, is clearly aware of how absurd his story is and tries to dress it up with a disjointed grab-bag of tricks. We get overhead, low-angle and crane shots, all edited at 200 cuts per minute. Bay seems unable to shoot a simple scene, with the camera resting steadily, which would allow it to build to its own rhythm. The script, credited to a whopping
ARMAGEDDON
Kansan Rating: ** out of *****
Running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Rated PG-13 for sci-fi disaster
action, sensuality and brief moments
of vulgar language
total of nine writers, makes the earlier asteroid flick, Deep Impact, look like a Fellini film. The result of their efforts is akin to gorging on a strict diet of SweetTarts for about a week.
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