"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...

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Jul 4, 2023

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.

| Original Score: B | Jun 22, 2023

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 22, 2023

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.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 22, 2023

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 22, 2023

A summer blockbuster in all senses of the term, from its action-hero star to its wisecracking cheesy dialogue to all the stuff blowing up. The action is engagingly fast and furious, and the stars hold their own among the copious special effects.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 22, 2023

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.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 22, 2023

For all its simulation of technical sophistication, the film relies on brawn, brutishness and mind-numbing, ear-splitting, dumb-downing destructiveness to keep going.

| Jun 22, 2023

As written by a committee of five, it's every idea that filmmakers have tried in big-budget sci-fi dramas. Armageddon won't spell the end of these kind of pictures. But we can always hope.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 22, 2023

It's still just second-quarter product, a moving illustration for a movie studio's annual report.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 22, 2023

Armageddon, on a delayed collision course with Deep Impact, is bigger, better and, surprisingly, much funnier.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 22, 2023

Even though the film marches across the screen at breakneck speed, it bogs down. At a seemingly never-ending 150 minutes, the explosions and periodic disgorgings of testosterone stretch as far as the reaches of space. It's boring.

| Original Score: D | Jun 22, 2023

This is a big dumb friendly dog of a movie, and the point is to let it knock you down and slobber all over you. You can't carp about cheap thrills; either go with it, or stay home.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 22, 2023

This kind of bravura, pumped-up filmmaking is the stuff of great trailers; the coming attraction spots take the top of our head off. But it's exhausting, and you begin to feel that the movie runs on a special clock in which every minute lasts 90 seconds.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 22, 2023

You'll see the reported $165 million budget on-screen in the impressive effects and mammoth sets. But is the movie good for you? Probably not.

| Original Score: C | Jun 22, 2023

Anchored by its star appeal, Armageddon eventually overcomes its weak buildup, feeble dialogue and patriotic excess to become the heart-pounding outer space disaster flick it should have been from the get-go.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 22, 2023

The good news is that Armageddon may well be the second-best asteroid movie of the summer. The bad news is that you walk away from this raucous bore wishing the asteroid had won.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 22, 2023

Bay, not trusting the magnetism of his actors, inflates every scene with the cinema equivalent of pure oxygen. Everything is played at such an intense pitch that it all loses its impact.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 22, 2023

Overproduced, overblown, overhyped and just plain exhausting. And as storytelling goes, it's about as satisfying as staring at a video game screen while someone else controls the joystick.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 22, 2023

Bruce Willis and his gang of Dolby-sounding, giant screening, blowing-up-real-good heroes have put out the summer's best mindless action flick.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 22, 2023