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Play trailer 2:23 Poster for Armageddon PG-13 1998 2h 30m Sci-Fi Action Adventure Play Trailer Watchlist
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When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman (Billy Bob Thornton) determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis), who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. (Ben Affleck), who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter (Liv Tyler), until the mission proves otherwise.
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Lovely to look at but about as intelligent as the asteroid that serves as the movie's antagonist, Armageddon slickly sums up the cinematic legacies of producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay.

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Matthew Rozsa Salon.com "Armageddon"'s animus toward scientists and science runs so deep that, on an intuitive level, a viewer could be forgiven for thinking that the mistakes are somehow connected to that anti-intellectual prejudice... Rated: 0.5/4 Jul 4, 2023 Full Review Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune We're talking non-stop action and noise. That doesn't make it a bad movie; rather, the audaciousness of the way it has been put together eventually becomes amusing. Rated: 3/4 Jun 22, 2023 Full Review Jack Mathews Newsday For its targeted young audience, this is summer entertainment at its superficial, excessive best, a combination roller coaster ride and fireworks show, with doomsday as its funhouse theme. Rated: 2.5/4 Jun 22, 2023 Full Review Steve Persall Tampa Bay Times A boys-with-toys extravaganza dripping with testosterone and male bonding. It grabs moviegoers by the collar and bullies us into having a good time. Rated: B Jun 22, 2023 Full Review Chris Garcia Austin American-Statesman Armageddon is slam-bang sensory overkill. It's loud. It's heavy-handed. It's melodramatic. It's an explosion of baroque excess that splats on the screen and bludgeons the audience into a collective migraine. It's the best American movie of the year. Rated: 3.5/4 Jun 22, 2023 Full Review Rene Rodriguez Miami Herald Armageddon isn't made for grown-ups, and it isn't made for kids, either; I'm not sure it's made for human beings, period. It's a banal, mechanical film, replete with cheap patriotism and bogus sentiment. Rated: 1/4 Jun 22, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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Kevin M. A lot of action and humor. The plot was ridiculous of course. Just a lot of fun to watch. Some big names were in the flick, which was an attraction, but the dialogue and plot didn’t really give them much to work with. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 11/28/25 Full Review Lillian O This is the worst movie I have ever seen. This movie forever soured for me anything Michael Bay related. Terrible writing. Predictable and boring. Had this movie not been hyped up the way it was before my watching, we may be having a different conversation...but alas, I was promised the world and given dust in return. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 11/18/25 Full Review kish b ★★☆☆☆ Armageddon is the cinematic equivalent of someone screaming in your face for 150 minutes while hurling fireworks, beer, and American flags at you… and somehow it’s still impossible to completely hate. This is peak 1998 Michael Bay: an explosion every 11 seconds, a camera that spins like it’s on a rollercoaster, slow-motion lens flare porn, and a drilling montage that looks like an Aerosmith music video with NASA’s budget. Bruce Willis growling orders, Ben Affleck romancing Liv Tyler with animal crackers in glorious slo-mo, Steve Buscemi being the creepiest genius in space; everything is so over-the-top it borders on performance art. "I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing" plays roughly 47 times and the movie is so proud of it you almost believe it’s high art. But come on, the plot is wet toilet paper: real scientists laughed themselves sick (we’re drilling 800 feet into an asteroid with Home Depot tools, sure), the characters are walking caricatures, the patriotism is slathered on with a shovel, and at one point they literally shoot machine guns inside the asteroid. Inside. Two stars: one because it’s so gloriously dumb it loops back around to camp bliss, and one because, yes, when Bruce stays behind and whispers "Tell Grace…" I still get a lump in my throat even though I know it’s cheap manipulation. It’s bad. It’s loud. It’s ridiculous. And every few years I still crank the volume, crack a beer, and let it wash over me like the guilty-pleasure tsunami it is. 4/10, but 10/10 in pure testosterone and onion-cutting tears. Houston, we have a guilty pleasure. 🦅💥🚀🇺🇸 Rated 2 out of 5 stars 11/17/25 Full Review Mike G Great movie with some great actors. Gritty realism and a fine plot. I like that the movie thoughtfully covers the NASA training required for sending oil drillers into space to land on a speeding asteroid under the harshest conditions imaginable. The special effects and portrait of the landing and drilling operations are stunning and based on actual science of what this would entail. It's very reassuring that should mankind face this kind of threat they have plans such as this to save us, also that widespread panic and social unrest did not break out. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/24/25 Full Review Geo3 F I remember watching this movie or glimpse of it when I was young so I didn’t remember it that much having re-watched it again first of all it looks like its age very 90’s film. Also, it’s has not adapted well to today’s TVs if you’re watching it on DVD because the picture size got stuck in the 90’s size. aside from that it’s a solid movie to enjoy. Has a good plot and a good action aside from that nothing much but pretty entertaining. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/15/25 Full Review Tauhid E pretty action and thrill oriented. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/12/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman (Billy Bob Thornton) determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis), who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. (Ben Affleck), who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter (Liv Tyler), until the mission proves otherwise.
Director
Michael Bay
Producer
Gale Anne Hurd, Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay
Screenwriter
Robert Roy Pool, Tony Gilroy, Shane Salerno, Jonathan Hensleigh, J.J. Abrams
Distributor
Buena Vista Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Criterion Collection, Touchstone Home Video
Production Co
Valhalla Motion Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Buena Vista Television, Digital Image Associates
Rating
PG-13 (Sci-Fi Disaster Action|Brief Language|Sensuality)
Genre
Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 1, 1998, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 23, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA)
$201.6M
Runtime
2h 30m
Sound Mix
SDDS, Surround, DTS, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio
35mm, Scope (2.35:1)
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