Monday, July 29, 2013

Armageddon


An over-the-top movie, filled with many events that you can't help but question, "is that possible?!".  It's got a lot of special effects and explosive action scenes, yet there are some other, more dragged out, boring scenes, which creates some pacing problems in the first hour or so of the film.  It starts off quite well, diving straight into the problem, which I was surprised about, but once the main character, Harry, amasses his team, things bog down quite a lot.  Never in the film did we actually see them working cohesively as a team, which was disappointing.  The problems that crop up, those characters sure have a lot of luck on their side to get out of them.  It seems that from the beginning, odds were hugely stacked against them, and that everyone was relying on this one plan seemed a bit ludicrous.  The plot wasn't truly much more than plant a bomb on the giant asteroid, adding in some family issues (which were boring and out of place anyway).  Some of the characters were stupid, annoying and pointless.  I forgot the name of him, but the character who started going crazy on the asteroid was unneeded for, didn't add anything to the film.

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