Armageddon - Max Hastings

Armageddon review

Advantages: Fun, exciting action scenes
Disadvantages: None

Armageddon is a big budget action adventure film directed by Michael Bay (who also directed Bad Boys, The Rock and Transformers) and stars Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler and Steve Buscemi. As with most "high concept" films, the plot is very simple. NASA detects an asteroid the size of Texas heading towards Earth, which will destroy every living thing on the planet in less than three weeks if nothing is done. So, they hatch a plan: to drill deep into the asteroid and to detonate a nuclear weapon, blowing it up from the inside. To do this they bring in the best deep core drillers in the world, led by Harry Stamper (Willis), to land on the asteroid and drill 800ft, at which point they will drop the nuke into the hole and scarper pronto. But as with these films, nothing goes as planned. Michael Bay is very much a "love him ...

Walter_Kovacs 31.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Armageddon (DVD)

Hastings Direct - AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

Advantages: None if you have to claim
Disadvantages: Appalling service outside of FSA guidelines

On returning from my recent trip to France, I came home to find to find two nasty surprises. The first was in my haste to leave I had forgotten to do the washing up and there was a good smelly pile of decaying plates and cups just waiting for an industrial hose. No one else to blame but myself on that one. The second nasty surprise was that my car had been stolen. Like any insurance policy be it home, personal or car the true worth of the policy is only measurable once you have to make a claim on it. You can have the cheapest premiums in the world but if when you come to need the insurance company and they fail spectacularly to deliver, what price those discounts now. I never asked to be Hastings Direct. In the same way we never asked to be under Gordon Brown, my policy was transferred from Budget Choice. I do not know the ins ...

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Armageddon

Advantages: Great film
Disadvantages: None

This is a great film. The actors in this film are Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thorton, Liv Tyler, Ben Afflick, Will Patton, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormere, Keith David, William Fichtner, Owen Wilson, Michael Clarke Duncan and Charles Stewart. The Director of this film is Michael Bay and the classification is 12+. Armageddon is about a group of men working on an oil rig and Harry, played by Bruce Willis, is the man who owns the oil rig and his daughter, played by Liv Tyler, has been brought up on this oil rig and is seeing one of the men, played by Ben Affleck, and Bruce Willis character doesn't like this because he still sees his daughter as his little girl. The other men try to reason with Harry because they say that they have a responsibility for his daughter aswell because they helped bring her up too. The storyline of the film is ...

giantpanda21 19.02.2006 · Read full review
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