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Summary: Tear Jerker
Review: I thought Deep Impact was a great movie. The storyline was so realistic and compelling. The fact that Earth could actually be in Danger of that sort of catastrophe is really scary. The characters in the movie were so brave, bold, and couragous it made the film that much better. I never knew that Elijah Wood could act in any character other that Frodo in the Lord of the rings, but this movie proves that wrong. The movie was awewsome to watch and cry at.
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Summary: good movie
Review: This movie really suprized me at its release. It came out with Armagedden and was lesser known.The good news is its much better. It does not have as many special effects but it balances that with story telling. The main charcters get you involved with thier lives as the Earth faces oblivion. plenty of touching scenes and good acting all around. It proves that man may survive no matter what. Was thier survial plan practical? I dont know but, I doubt you have a dry eye at the end of this movie.highly recommendned.
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Summary: Just the right touch
Review: This is a film that could easily have gone sour. We could have had inordinate focus on the young folks or a lot of political hokum about we are all one happy family or - more likely - the majority of the movie could be spent on the impact and awful aftermath. Great opening, good build up. Tea Leoni seems made for the part of striving newswoman and her very drive opens up a secret that is as somber as it is news-worthy. Slowly the tension rises as we wonder who will be saved (the random drawing is great) and who is condemned to perish. Several things separate this from the usual run (say ARMAGEDDON). First, our heroine does not survive but goes out in a tender scene with dad. Second, the asteroid does hit and does destroy a large part of the Earth. Third, we are left with a feeling of hope instead of despair and even a sense of pride. This one deserves an "A".
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Summary: Armageddon, but better
Review: This has most of the excitement of Armageddon but has a plot that you actually care about. You get to go through a range of emotions other than just cool special effects. It's more believable and more realistic which allows you to actually pay attention to the character development. In the end, it is about the same thing as Armageddon and though it does what it does well, nobody's going to win anything for this movie. But as entertainment value for an evening (or many - I've watched it over a dozen times and still love it), it's completely worth it!
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Summary: AN INEXORABLE POSSIBILITY BECOMING REALITY
Review: This splendid MOVIE accost with many reality the BAD FUTURE witch can be taken with high-mindedness and also infinites probability that ONE DAY the DEEP IMPACT COULD BE ATTAIN OUR DEAR COSTLY PLANET ! The ASTROPHYSICIANS are certainly DUBIOUS for THAT but all thing of the science is certain OF ONE OBVIOUSNESS ! THIS, IS already ARRIVED MANY TIME, CENTURY, millions .... YEARS !!!! .... THE FUTURE, ALAS, IS PESSIMIST FOR THAT and this movie can obtain many goods behaviours OF THE HUMAN GENDER IF THAT ARRIVE THIS DAY OR THESE OTHER YEARS NOBODY KNOW BUT ALOST EVERYBODY IS SCARED BY THAT ! A VERY GOOD MOVIE SURE !!!
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Summary: No Impact
Review: This has to be one of the most boring doomsday movies I have ever seen. The director tries so hard to touch upon the dynamics of the human condition that she misses her mark entirely. The movie also has some very serious scientific flaws which would make the movie rather comical if it weren't so boring. In their attempt to appear stoic, the characters appear apathetic. Contrary to the director's and script-writer's intent, there's no touching upon human emotion because it isn't acted out. Morgan Freeman's performance as the President invokes neither perseverance or desperation: it simply falls flat. His monotonous speeches presented more of a "We're screwed, what can I tell you?" flair to them: hardly the speech one would want to hear from a national leader in a time of crisis. Although this film tries hard at being realistic in every way, the pseudo-science in this film is laughable. It's hard to believe that a catastrophic event of such proportions wouldn't descend society into complete anarchy. Finally, People running away and escaping from a tsunami that is over 500' when they're only a few blocks away is simply ludicrous if not insulting. Apart from that, the movie is simply boring! The dialogue is slow, monotonous and uninspiring. A very shallow film.
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Summary: Scientific accuracy goes out the window
Review: DO NOT READ THIS REVIEW if you can forgive a science fiction film for a lot of bad science. But if you are an astronomy buff like me, take this review as fair warning. I had SUCH high hopes for this movie. "At last!" I thought, "They're finally making a scientifically-accurate film about a cometary impact!" And check out that poster! Looks like The End Of The World, for sure! COOL! So I shelled out my money and sat down in the dark theater to watch "Deep Impact," and within ten minutes I had started to squirm. "You can't predict a comet's path that far in advance!" I wanted to scream at the screen. Then the astronomer who discovers Earth is doomed gets KILLED in a car crash, and evidence of his discovery goes flying out the window on a diskette! I guess this was for dramatic effect. But wait! The diskette must have been found, because now there's a secret project to move some select people deep underground, presumably to rebuild civilization after the comet hits. Except that we never get to see any of these immense underground warrens. Probably would've taken the picture over budget. Then the smaller half of the comet hits the Atlantic Ocean, resulting in some interesting CGI. But if the larger half of the comet strikes, then civilization is most certainly doomed. What kind of a world will the underground survivors emerge to find? THAT would have made for a visionary science fiction film. But NO, we won't be treated to that, because at the very end the apocalyptic object is blown up by some heroic astronauts, and all the millions of fragments burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere. HARMLESSLY??? Hmmm, in real life the kinetic energy of the comet would still remain, and standing under the open sky would've have been like being in an oven set to BROIL. But that wouldn't have been a very crowd-pleasing ending, now would it? Remember when the beautiful Comet Hale-Bopp lit our evening skies? Remember when Comet Shoemaker-Levy took bites out of Jupiter? If either of those objects had struck Earth, we'd be lucky to have bacteria left. This is one of the reasons we MUST begin branching out from beyond our own planet. Our survival as a species depends on this. And perhaps one day a truly visionary film director will create a movie that deals with this scenario more realistically, but "Deep Impact" is not that movie. For all its introspection about how humankind might deal with its impending doom, "Deep Impact" is bad astronomy and bad science.
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Summary: An underrated, powerful apocalyptic thriller
Review: I find myself watching Deep Impact every eight months or so for some reason. Despite a few flaws, it's really quite a good film, always moving and powerful. This is just one of a number of apocalyptic films that came out in the late 1990s. In this scenario, it is a rogue comet that has earth in its sights and stands a very good chance of ending life as we know it. Elijah Wood, in his pre-Frodo Baggins days, plays Leo Biederman, a high school student who discovers an anomalous object in the heavens and hears nothing back from a local astronomer about it. A year later, young upstart reporter Jenny Lerner (Tea Leoni) is chasing a story on the resignation of the Treasury Secretary, confronting him with information about his "mistress Ellie." She is perplexed when the Secretary tells her she has her hands on the story of the century, and she is even more perplexed when a bunch of G-men seize her and escort her to a meeting with the President of the United States. Morgan Freeman plays President Tom Beck, and he is simply marvelous in this role. Jenny and the whole world soon learn that "Ellie" is not a woman at all, she is an acronym. E.L.E.=Extinction Level Event. The President goes public with information on the approaching danger, and the world watches and waits while a group of American and Russian astronauts fly out to try and knock the comet off course. Robert Duvall plays "Fish" Tanner, the aging NASA pilot who isn't welcomed with open arms by his much younger crew. From this point on, it is high drama indeed, as the suspense builds mightily toward the day of collision. The cast, with one exception is superb. Duvall and Freeman deliver their normal great performances, Wood is quite believable as the youngster suddenly famous for finding the earth-seeking comet, and Leelee Sobieski is wonderful as Wood's female counterpart. Tea Leoni failed to win me over in her role as reporter Jenny Lerner, however. Her performance as anchor person for the main events was not something I can imagine a national network going with, especially at a time when the earth faces its biggest crisis of all time. I could also mention one young man who crams as much annoyingly bad acting as is humanly possible into his scant few minutes in front of the camera. I thought the special effects for this movie were fairly impressive. The space scenes were quite good, managing to capture the deadly beauty and exotic danger of the killer comet, the explosions were satisfyingly huge, and the impact of the comet on earth is presented fairly convincingly. There are a number of human interest stories built into the plot, and some people might tire of these subplots. You have a woman dealing with the remarriage of her father and loneliness of her mother, a kid who can only save his childhood sweetheart by marrying her, and all sorts of doings with the masses of people trying to somehow escape on their own because the government can only save a chosen few in underground bunkers. The intense human drama on earth, such as the emotional complexity shown by President Beck and the characters of Wood and Sobieski, is met with an even more intense human drama in space, as individuals refuse to give up even after mankind has failed to avert disaster. The complex blending of tragedy and emotional pain teams up with intense feelings of patriotism and inspiring stories of heroism to make the conclusion something powerful that finds its way into my soul and brings a few tears to my eyes. I think Deep Impact is an underrated movie that has a lot to offer those yet to see it.
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Summary: Great film....
Review: but it deserves a better DVD!
More features Paramount..please!
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Summary: Somewhat entertaining
Review: Maybe this is a good movie, but just not my style. I did like Armegedon. The plot of the movie was that the US found out that in 2 years and asteroid will strike Earth. The main problem with this movie is that it doesn't focus on the asteroid as much as it should. I would bet more that half of this movie had nothing to do with the asteroid. During this time, the movie focusses on the personal lives of the characters of the movie which really isn't that interesting. When the method of destroying the asteroid is discussed, it seems that it was thought up and planned by a 6th grade class. Also, I didn't find the way everyone reacted mostly acurate. So overall, if you have nothing better to do, you could rent this movie. But if you want to see a great movie about an asteroid, see Armegedon.
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