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Title: Major disappointment
Review: "Armageddon" stars Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Steve Buscemi and many other likeable and capable actors. It is not their fault that the movie is a disappointment. It's not that I don't like films that have no ambition except being great fun, because I believe that this is a very high ambition. Only few recent pictues succeeded in being just that and "Armageddon" is definitely not one of them. It has great special effects, yes, but it has no real momentum. The editing is the worst thing of this film. Michael Bay mistakenly believes that the more cuts I have per minute the more exhilerating and relentless is the action. A fatal error. He should study the action scenes of films like "The Terminator" or "Face/Off" frame by frame. What's more, the screenplay gives us no characters to root for. The wisecracks of the squad is alternately stupid, unfunny or both. All this ends up to a rather boring film that also seems to go on forever because you feel already sleepy halfway through.
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