"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

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

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

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

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

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

Armageddon is as much an amalgam of many films before it, rather than its own entity. This is not a bad thing when the money is on the screen, but Armageddon could have done with some playfulness.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 21, 2023

The film is not half bad: a rumbustious, boys' own yarn of derring-do.

| Jun 21, 2023

Do we laugh or groan? Groaning seems out of place. For Armageddon is so thoroughly, vigorously childish that it becomes almost endearing.

| Jun 21, 2023

Michael Bay, directing his third film for Bruckheimer, knows what the boss wants and supplies it, though he's probably capable of better. Both men came to film via Madison Avenue, and what they're seeing here is just another product.

| Jun 21, 2023

The special effects really are awesome. Just leave your brain at home while America saves the world again.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 21, 2023

Sci-fi, adventure, black comedy, action movie, ensemble piece, even romance: it's all there, and most of it is pulled off with some aplomb.

| Jun 21, 2023

A blast of a movie in which guys with drills save the planet from a low-flying hunkajunk is itself a hunkajunk but superior junk, propulsive, cacophonous, hyperkinetic and not lacking one verse of the summer entertainment bible.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 21, 2023

Just because you're big does not mean you're not brainy, and this smart, polished entertainment crushes the notion that fx/disaster films run only on low-octane dialogue, lowest-common-denominator narrative and the lowliest instincts of tie-in marketeers.

| Jul 1, 2019

Armageddon is big and noisy and stupid and shameless and it's going to be huge at the box office.

| Jun 25, 2018

The movie tries, with scary success, to induce a sort of Orwellian stupor that's the enemy of coherent thought and feeling.

| Jun 6, 2014

It's strictly a side issue whether mankind will survive colliding with an asteroid the size of Texas; the real question is whether Liv Tyler, who plays Bruce Willis's daughter, gets to keep her boyfriend.

| Jun 6, 2014