Deep Impact

1998 "Oceans rise. Cities fall. Hope survives."
6.2| 2h0m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 08 May 1998 Released
Producted By: Paramount
Country: United States of America
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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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john_ferentinos_art This is a "spielberguesque"movie telling a story about a planetary crisis caused by a coming asteroid that could cause an extinction level event tackling the impact that first of all it would have on individual people and society. Succeeding more in the first of the parts.It's decent to itself and to its audience for what it is with a couple of very good scenes. What this movies succeeds in it to make you feel the awe about such an event and really try to put you there. I have seen many comparisons to the imbecilic abomination called armageddon. It has nothing to do with it.People who enjoyed armageddon as sci fi and not as trash movie do not have the intellectual capacity to enjoy this one for sure.
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.
midwayairdale I was disappointed in Tea Leoni! in my opinion this lady should find another job. not very good at all. i liked this movie quite a bit. but you need to ignore all the holes. the moles were supposed to bore to 100 meters, not 100 feet. silly us Americans. we seem to think the terms are interchangeable. they aren't even close. then there is the twin towers in New York that semi survived the tidal wave (and yes, that is what tsunami means folks. it's the Japanese word for tidal wave! that is all!) and last but not least, how the hell did so much of Washington DC survive? it wouldn't have! the end scene, everyone has clean, pressed suits. electrical power for the president to give his speech. the capitol building surviving. the whole square full of people. how did all that happen. OK. i'll shut up now folks. enjoy!
Bman777 It's crazy ... Throughout the movie, everyone shows very little reaction to the news that a comet the size of Manhattan is hurtling to Earth, potentially killing every person and creature on our planet. The expressions on the actors and actresses are blank, emotionless, kind of immediately resigned to dying in about a year. Weird how other reviews liked the acting and how the flick touched them. I seriously don't get it. Deep Impact was too unrealistic by how Americans acted or really didn't act. In reality, mass hysteria would build, criminal and impulsive behaviors would increase, and society would start unraveling. The President was totally unbelievable and and the reporter was literally like a zombie, stating horrible news like someone who is reporting the loss of a championship high school football game. No one reacted realistically. The characters on the rescue ship made efforts at showing some human emotion, but they came off as wooden and dull. The major flaw in the movie is that most people on Earth ... including the main characters ... would react far more strongly, more unpredictably, than the way everyone reacts in the flick.