Deep Impact

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Summary: Finally, a beleivable disaster movie!
Review: This has basically the same idea as "Armageddon", but invites movie/TV veterans such as Morgan Freeman (as the first Afro American President), Robert Duvall, Vanessa Redgrave, and Tea Leoni. It's believable and enjoyable. Forget the action buff jarheads and listen to someone with a 186 IQ (Me)!

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Summary: Just about the best doggone disaster movie around!
Review: This movie beats out the growing pack of disaster movies, for a number of reasons:

The inevitable concentration on the problems of individuals caught up in the growing disaster here focuses on people centrally related to the discovery of the comet. They are IN the story for good reasons.

The threat is real, and to a degree cannot be dodged. A comet is coming, we cannot stop it, it arrives, and it does a lot of harm, and some of the central characters perish, while others survive.

There is a minimum of gooey treacle. The characters generally behave with a certain nobility--just as we might hope to behave in similar extreme circumstances. Sentimentality is generally avoided.

The plot is complete, the behavior rational, and nothing of importance is dropped from the exposition. The film is balanced, and we are not left with rip-roaring inconsistencies and problems at the end.

But finally, it is a GOOD movie: entertaining, fascinating, satisfying, disturbing, horrifying, fulfilling, and interwoven with a satisfying amount of humor.

If disaster strikes us in real time, I only hope we are in hands as good as these.

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Summary: Formula action piece maintains interest, barely.
Review: Some feel the action picture of the 1980's is now going the way of "classic rock" music and I tend to agree. "Deep Impact" tries hard to recreate many of the steps to failure to which we've become accustomed as this genre develops (and plays out) in the late 1990's. When your lead character's parents have good-sized speaking parts, and they are played by once-high-profile, and now grist mill fodder such as Maximilian Schell and Vanessa Redgrave you may want to start to worry (although I'll admit Schell did have a great turn in "The Freshman"(1990)). I mean what, if any value could these 'parents' play in the story? It's fairly easy to predict that our main character will be 'flawed' but can't he just hit the bottle, or just show some irregular sociopathic behavior? Could I really care about his (her) relation ship with mommy and daddy? Just pour some more eFx on top if you please.

Perhaps scripters Bruce Joel Rubin (My Life) and Michel Tolkin (The Player), neither of whom have ever had the word 'action' associated with their writing offer a freshness with their script. Preferring not to depend on a lead role, "Deep Impact" is entirely story-driven--thankfully, since every time Tea Leoni takes the screen I get that 'fingernails on the chalkboard' feeling-can you say "Flirting With Disaster"?.

Have seen the film twice now, and must say I found it perfectly agreeable although, aside from the 'comet to hit earth--rescue mission engaged--will the world survive?' normal story progression, I have no idea really what the dang thing was about.

Maybe it's all the well.

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Summary: Deep Impact Good movie, and good story
Review: Deep Impact could have been so much better, because the acting was really supurb Ex:(Morgan Freeman as the President), and a really engrossing story about a giant comet headed toward earth and hummanity's efforts to stop the empending danger. So what happens? First the trailer lied, for in the original theatrical trailer we see the comet colide with earth directly, but in the movie the sceen was much different, so much in fact that it pretty much causes Deep Impact to fall flat, and then there was the mission to fire every available nuclear missle at the comet, naturally the mission fails, but we are never told why, just that the mission failed. My theory is that the writters never really had a plausable execuse of why the mission could fail, so they ommited this little detail. Also after seeing the trailer I was really disapointed, because the people that go to see disaster flics, are there for that reason and that reason alone to see a disaster flic. With Deep Impact we really don't see a disaster, just a big wave and the movie ends. So now we have spent our time watching the movie hopeing to see some really good special effects, and we do except there over in about 30 seconds, then the movie ends, with little acomplished, other than most of the cast dies. Still I liked the movie and it still fairs better than Armageddon, with good acting on most parts, and a good story, except that it never really goes anywhere.

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Summary: better than Armageddon
Review: Why does everybody say get Armageddon instead of Deep Impact? I like both of them, but I think Deep Impact is better. The only reason Deep Impact didn't get more Academy Awards is because it came out right after Titanic. When I first saw the previews for Deep Impact, I knew I had to see this movie because of the great looking special effects.

This movie also has a good plot to it. Morgan Freeman does a great job playing as the president. The speech he had to give about the incoming comet is one of the best ever made in a film. All the other actors and actresses also do a good job, which makes this movie believable in some respects. Finally, all the special effects are completely awesome, especially the waves coming out of the ocean and when the astronauts have to drill into the comet to try to stop its path. I haven't seen the DVD version yet but I've heard it's even more spectacular. I recommend this movie to anybody who likes great special effects or action movies.

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Summary: Good movie, definately a buy.
Review: I am tired of hearing "get Armageddon instead"! Armageddon is a semi-plotless car commercial. The disgusting cue-waving-American flag scene made me want to growl. Tacky. Plotless. Very scientifically unaccurate. A rotating Mir? HA!

Deep Impact has real human interaction. D.I. actually made me feel for the characters. A deeply moving plot. Go buy Deep Impact!

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Summary: Okay, so it's not Armageddon...
Review: I liked this film. It was not your average disaster movie in that it tries to have a more human slant than its predecessors. Okay, so it fell down a few times, being a bit sugar sweet with the teenage marriage and the daughter who reconciles with her father just before the killer tidal wave hits. However the special effects were good, the acting was not too bad either, and there were one or two toughing moments that were fairly realistic and not overly sugary. I agree it is no Armageddon, but then did it ever want to be like Armageddon? I doubt it. Both are distinct and enjoyable films that just as watchable as each other for different reasons. So if you want a fairly intelligent disaster movie, that tries its best to be interesting and entertaining in the same breath, then watch Deep Impact. It's not bad and it does have its moments.

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Summary: If you like cinema, get "Armageddon", please.
Review: I will only give you three lines to describe the flick: a negro american president - people being warned of the ominous danger several months before the impact and a national lottery to choose the ones who will go to the "Noah's Ark" (instead of preparing the whole thing secretly and putting aside the normal citizen as it is and as it must be) - Would any person with a minimum sense of reality believe that? - Finally, an unnecessary dawdling of a tedious plot threaded with unsubstantial clichéed characters following the most banal and predictable unpredictability. Make yourself a favor and get Armaggedon, a western-in-space that will make you think of a post-modern version of "The Dirty Dozen" or "The Magnificent Seven". More fun, more epics, and --being a scifi-opera--, more credible by far than this "Flat Impact".

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Summary: Extremely disappointing
Review: The premise of the movie is frightening and captivating at the same time. I expected tremendous special effects, action and drama from a panicked public and government. Instead I got an overated snore fest.

Don't waste your time.

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Summary: Far superior to Armageddon
Review: While Armageddon was just another plotless Bruce Willis vehicle, Deep Impact is a much more thoughtful and rich movie experience. Unlike some other reviewers, I particularly enjoyed Tea Leoni's acting as a newswoman who is given what is initally thought to be a clunker of a story by her boss, played well by Laura Innes (ER). This film has much stronger character development than Armageddon, not to mention something that Armageddon lacked entirely, namely a PLOT. True, Morgan Freeman was underutilized in this film, but then again, he was playing the President in a movie that focused more on the people who discovered the asteroid and broke the story than on the officical reaction to the comet. It would be a mistake to miss this movie.