Deep Impact

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kish b ★★★★☆ Deep Impact is the thinking person’s disaster movie: a surprisingly somber, deeply human end-of-the-world story that dares to care more about grief, sacrifice, and quiet heroism than explosions (even when it has plenty of those). Released the same summer as Armageddon, this one actually treats the apocalypse like adults. The comet isn’t just a rock; it’s a countdown clock ticking over ordinary people making impossible choices. Téa Leoni’s journalist wrestling with her estranged parents while breaking the biggest story in history, Robert Duvall leading the Messiah crew on a suicide mission with nothing but grace and gallows humor, Elijah Wood getting married at 17 because tomorrow isn’t promised; every subplot lands because the characters feel real, not caricatures. Morgan Freeman’s President Beck is still one of the most reassuring fictional leaders ever put on screen (that voice could calm a hurricane), and the final act doesn’t cheat: when the smaller comet hits and that East-Coast tsunami sequence rolls in with zero music, just the roar of water and James Horner’s heartbreaking choir, it’s legitimately terrifying. The last twenty minutes are pure, unashamed tearjerker territory: the astronaut farewells, the baby named after a doomed hero, the father carrying his daughter one last time… grab tissues. It loses half a star only because some of the younger-cast drama feels a bit after-school-special at times, and the CGI tidal wave hasn’t aged perfectly. Four stars: one for the cast giving Oscar-worthy work in a "disaster" movie, one for never insulting your intelligence, one for the emotional devastation that still wrecks me every rewatch, and one because in a genre full of Michael Bay noise, this one whispers "We love you, goodbye" and means it. Underrated 90s classic. 8/10. The sky really is falling… and somehow it still makes you feel less alone when it does. ☄️🌊❤️ Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 11/17/25 Full Review Raymond R Despite growing up in the 90s, I was completely unaware of this movie. It was amazing! and honestly, refreshing to see an extinction-level event related to a comet, as opposed to the typical bad guy/world war. This movie made me nostalgic as well for the good 'ol 90s. Happy this movie randomly came into my sight, it was great! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/10/25 Full Review Per S Another disasterous disaster movie - yet not as ridiculously pathetic as Armageddon. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/29/25 Full Review Stephen C Success in 2 hours even!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The USA grossed over $140,400,000.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ages 13 and older!!!!! Better be fake than real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/29/25 Full Review thiago s Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/20/25 Full Review Jerod S It's world destruction - but somehow, missions, missiles and mineshafts are kinda thrown together (mostly to fail). The film couldn't pull off the kind of epic it wanted to be - even with Freeman. And Leoni sucked as soon as she sat behind the news desk. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 06/13/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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