Armageddon: Critic Reviews

Save the planet, but spare us this movie.

...full of sound and fury but without a single new idea to add to the conversation.

It delivers the thrill-ride twists and turns, exciting but not surprising.

Along with the rest of the audience, I jumped when I was meant to jump, laughed when I was meant to laugh, and swallowed a lump in my throat when I was meant to feel moved.

...doesn't give a hoot about making a deep, humanistic impact on us.

I hate Armageddon for what it is: the unholy spawn of The Dirty Dozen and Con Air.

Sporadically watchable, it's at its best at those infrequent moments when it doesn't take itself too seriously.

A silly, noisy, overlong, star-driven popcorn movie about the end of the world

The color-corrected Life magazine pictorial-style imagery and excessive use of slo-mo are far more annoying than they are easy on the eyes, and the hyperactive editing is unbearable. [Blu-ray]

It's easy to be sucked in by all the glossy, nostalgic images that flash across the screen like some sort of psychological experiment, but like most of the director's other films, most is forgettable shortly thereafter.

It's noisy, glossy, and excessive, and more than a tad simplistic -- but it's also nearly irresistible.

...this is a critic-proof crowd-pleaser that purposely intones God, Mom, and apple pie before pushing every other jingoistic, proto-patriotic button out there.

Of all the Michael Bay films out there, Armageddon is the Michael Bayest.

Not awful.

A Godzilla-sized blockbuster -- it's an outrageous spectacle, without many brains to speak of, but its heart in the right place.

Where things fall apart are the scenes that try to put in characterisation, and, God help us, comic relief.

Armabludgeon is like a roller coast--occasionally exciting, but in the end you've been taken for a long, nauseating ride.

Tenso e com bons efeitos visuais, o filme funciona como diversao (apesar dos cliches).

Resolute on violating every law of dramatic unity and physics, Armageddon makes Deep Impact look like a documentary.

breathless and utterly brainless... makes the similarly themed and much more sentimental 'Deep Impact' look like 'Schindler's List' by comparison.

Yes, in this film the honors-science students are obliged to sit back and watch as the shop class saves the world.

A few daring antiheroes who have nothing to lose prove themselves up to the challenge of saving the world.

one of the most calculating films of all of this year's blockbusters.

Do you ride rollercoasters for insight into your psyche? NO. Do you see Armageddon to be lambasted with great special effects, & incredible acts of derring-do? Yes, you do.

...a pretty muddled piece of filmmaking.