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When NASA scientists detect an asteroid "the size of Texas" on a collision course with the Earth, they do what any sensible person would: launch a dysfunctional crew of roughneck oil drillers into space to destroy the thing before it wipes out life as we know it. Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler star in action-movie "auteur" Michael Bay's grandiose, absurd, Aerosmith-propelled paragon of cinematic excess.
"We've got front row tickets to the end of the earth!" — Rockhound (Steve Buscemi)
When NASA detects an asteroid "the size of Texas" on a collision course with the Earth, they do what any sensible person would: launch a dysfunctional crew of roughneck oil drillers into space to destroy the thing before it wipes out life as we know it. A grandiose, absurd, Aerosmith-propelled juggernaut of apocalyptic popcorn fodder, Armageddon is the apotheosis of action-movie "auteur" Michael Bay, who pumps up the testosterone to bigger-than-Bad Boys levels and cranks the rock soundtrack to eleven. Starring a post-Die Hard/pre-Sixth Sense Bruce Willis as the crew's stubborn leader and a post-Good Will Hunting/pre-Gigli Ben Affleck as the cocky young gun out to marry the boss' daughter (Liv Tyler), Armageddon is a zenith of 1990s cinematic excess, and among the worst-reviewed films of perennial critical target Bay's career. Now let's blow up that &#^(%&! rock.