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Title: Bad story, bad acting, great SFX!
Review: Terrific special effects cannot possibly hope to buoy this dung heap of a movie. Unlike the similarly-plotted "Deep Impact", "Armageddon" is a shallow, explosives-laden snoozer, featuring too many stars speaking too much cheesey dialogue through too many painfully-scored and acted scenes. I'm not sure what I disliked more, the music video pacing or the ludicrously rubber "science" behind this piece of science fiction. Really, don't bother with this one, unless you plan to turn the sound off and enjoy the movie purely on its visual merits. In that department it is a home run. Otherwise, skip it, and go get a copy of "Deep Impact". Now there is a truly outstanding asteroid disaster movie.
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