Armageddon 1998 123movies

Watch: Armageddon 1998 123movies, Full Movie Online – Due to a shuttle’s unfortunate demise in outer space, NASA becomes aware of a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth. It seems that the only way to knock it off course is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear weapon. But as NASA’s under-funded yet resourceful team train the world’s best drillers for the job, the social order of the world begins to break down as the information reaches the public and hysteria results. As high-ranking officials play politics with the effort, the drilling team all faces deep personal issues which may jeopardize humanity’s last chance….
Plot: When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn’t good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.
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Ratings:

	6.7/10 Votes: 427,374
	37% | RottenTomatoes
	42/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 6880 Popularity: 48.269 | TMDB

Reviews:

This starts off quite entertaingly as “Stamper” (Bruce Willis) discovers that his daughter “Grace” (Liv Tyler) has been having a romance with one of his employees “AJ” (Ben Affleck) and so chases him around a drilling establishment taking pot shots at him with a shotgun. Sadly, though, this silliness is soon replaced by a greater one as we discover a great meteor is heading our way and “Stamper” and his team might be the only hope for mankind. Egged on by “Truman” (Billy Bob Thornton) they must quickly learn to be astronauts, then by way of a Russian space station, head into space to plant a gazillion ton nuclear bomb on the thing so it will split up and harmlessly pass us by. This is probably Willis at the top of his game, lively and mischievous and Affleck was at his most eye-catching, but the rest of this just just fits nicely into the well trodden sphere of sci-fi disaster movie. The visual effects are fine, but the dialogue is pretty pedestrian and the ending has a cheesy sentimentality to it that made my eyes roll. It is far, far too long. We spend at least an hour faffing about on the preamble, establishing the characters and when finally lift off comes, I was not entirely convinced the meteor wasn’t welcome. There is quite a fun contribution from cosmonaut “Andropov” (Peter Stormare) who knows just how to fix high-spec technology, but otherwise this is all just a rather colourful vehicle for the star that is enjoyable enough, eventually, but really nothing to phone home about.

It’s Bayhem time again.

An asteroid the size of Texas is heading towards Earth, the consequence if it hits is a global killer, the end of mankind. In spite of the billions invested in the space programme, NASA has no answers other than the notion that the asteroid will need to be nuked, from the inside. Enter Harry Stamper and his rough and rugged crew of deep core drillers. Can NASA get these men up on the asteroid and do the job? The fate of mankind rests with a bunch of odd balls!

Perhaps because I have a particular kink for the disaster picture, I find it hard to understand the hate for Armageddon. I am after all a man who gleefully defends The Towering Inferno et al with staunch defiance. Armageddon does exactly what was expected from it, ridiculous high octane entertainment with laughs, peril and obligatory chest thumping bravado. All of course cloaked in director Michael Bay’s gleeful insistence on blowing things up with devilish panache. Sure there are some twee moments, sure there is some less than great acting on show, but you know what? It’s a disaster picture for Michael Bay’s crying out loud sake! Check the brain at the door, turn the sound and colour systems up, enjoy the effects on offer and singalong to Aeromith’s smashing, “I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing”.

Armageddon, does exactly what it says on the cover, don’t take it so serious folks. 8/10

One of Those Guilty Pleasures
After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas is going to impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep core drillers to save the planet.

The real mystery surrounding this film is how it got released by the Criterion Collection. Both this film and Michael Bay’s “The Rock” received the Criterion treatment at one time. And while both are very enjoyable films, do they really belong with Criterion? I feel that by merely being released by them, there is an added importance stamped on the film.

But as far as guilty pleasures go, this is a fun and entertaining film. I could do without the romance angle, but the idea of blowing up an asteroid before it hits earth (which assumes a lot of questionable science) is just classic science fiction, here given more legitimacy and budget than ever before.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 31 min (151 min), 2 hr 33 min (153 min) (director’s cut) (USA)
Budget 140000000
Revenue 553799566
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Director Michael Bay
Writer Jonathan Hensleigh, J.J. Abrams, Tony Gilroy
Actors Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 4 Oscars. 15 wins & 40 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS, DTS 70 mm (70 mm print), D-Cinema 48kHz 5.1, D-Cinema 48kHz 5.1 (5.1), Broadway Surround (1998)
Aspect Ratio 2.20 : 1 (70 mm print), 2.39 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Lightweight, Panavision C- and E-Series Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision C- and E-Series Lenses, Panavision Panastar, Panavision C- and E-Series Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints)
Film Length 4,012 m, 4,121 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm (also horizontal) (Eastman EXR 100T 5248, Kodak Vision 500T 5279, EXR 200T 5293)
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic), VistaVision (special effects)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Eastman), 70 mm (blow-up) (one print) (Eastman)