Deep Impact

1998 "Oceans rise. Cities fall. Hope survives."
6.2| 2h0m| PG-13| en
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A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.

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FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Mynameisroman Remember Armageddon? That was a great movie about an asteroid on its way to earth. an action movie to be precise. this movie has the same background story but puts its focus on a couple of random people and their fates. but some of their story line feel forced and the outcome was no surprise. at least they are trying to be more realistic in terms of what could happen in such event. overall the movie is just okay... not really bad but also not great. you might watch it once on the tv and then probably never again
Davis P Deep Impact was released in the time of the disaster movie frenzy. In 1996 we had Independence Day, then in 1998 we were brought this and also Armageddon. Not that that's a bad thing because I'm a big fan of Independence Day and of this film. First of all, I really liked the cast and their acting. Tea leoni, Morgan freeman, Robert Duvall, Elijah wood, and Leelee all do really well with their roles. For me, this was leoni's film, out of all the actors, I think she outshined them all. She really showed her dramatic acting chops. Freeman was very good as the president, he just is a perfect actor for a powerful role. And Duvall fit his retiree astronaut role well, he was just a good fit for it. The writing isn't just all cheesy and phoned in clichés, often times that can happen in disaster movies because they just wanna mainly focus on the visual effects aspect of the film. But I didn't think that was the case here. I really loved the dialogue between leoni and her parents (Redgrave and Schell). Especially with her father, the movie really focuses on their relationship, just like it focuses on wood and Sorbeski's. And the film did both story lines justice. The visual effects are impressive, especially for 1998, not quite to the level of Independence Day in my opinion, but still pretty well done. I enjoyed this trilling movie and I know you will too. 8/10.
nuoipter termer Deep Impact is an Armageddon-like movie where a comet is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth and a group of astronauts go to try to blow it up. They land on it and drill into it and put a nuclear bomb in it and blow it up. This blows it into two pieces which are still headed for Earth and big enough to cause catastrophic damage. The first piece hits in the Atlantic Ocean and generates a gigantic tsunami which destroys New York City and other things. The second is blown up by the astronauts flying into it and detonating a nuclear bomb on the ship. The special effects in the movie are very good. Especially the giant wave effects. They're terrifying.
Sam Cannon I started watching Deep Impact out of curiosity. The premise itself is quite interesting; a world preparing for the inevitable extinction-level-event that will occur, but like the work of Roland Emmerich, the story is stretched far too thin, exploring too many characters.Any aspect of the story; the child who first found the meteor, the journalist who first uncovers the government conspiracy, the astronauts who try to stop the comet before it hits earth, or the older woman facing her inevitable demise, could've been their own standalone film, but instead the filmmakers decided to push everything into a single film, making every aspect shallow and rushed.By far my favourite part of the movie are the astronauts. The scene where they plant bombs on the comet in attempts to destroy or alter its course, is by far the most dramatic and emotionally resonant aspect of the film. The effects were also very good for the time. Thankfully, a movie called Sunshine with a similar but different premise explored this sort of story further. The worst part of the story is the kid's story. This kid discovered the comet that would destroy the earth, and all he cares about is boning some girl (and this is made clear in the film, when one of his classmates says in front of an entire school "You can have sex with any girl you want" for discovering the comet), to the point where he convinces her to marry him to save her family. That is really offensive and creepy, and shouldn't have ever been treated with the whimsy this film did. He could've used his apparent authority to save more people, perhaps his entire class, but instead he marries a 14 year old girl.The rest of the film is decent to mediocre. The President, played by Morgan Freeman, is incredibly interesting, as there is an air of sinister around him when he captures a journalist. But as I said before, most of the film is shallow due to how spread out the film's focus is.In Conclusion:Pros: -Astronaut storyline -Morgan Freeman as President -The Landing on the Comet scene -The impact of the first cometCons: -The Soundtrack -The kid storyline -The dialogue -Too many characters6/10