Armageddon details
Movie Details:
- Director: Michael Bay
- Produced By: Valhalla Motion Pictures, Touchstone Pictures
- Year: 1998
- Run Time: 150 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: PG13 (for sci-fi disaster action, sensuality and brief language.)
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Action
- Filmed In: Color
- Release: 1998 07 01 (USA)
- Key Cast: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, Will Patton, Peter Stormare, Keith David, Steve Buscemi, Full Credits
- Awards: Best Original Song (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie 1998), Best Sound (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie 1998), Best Sound Effects Editing (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie 1998), Full Awards
Michael Bay (The Rock) directed this science fiction action thriller in the When Worlds Collide tradition. After astronomy students discover a comet-asteroid collision, an asteroid fragment "the size of the Super Dome" threatens. It's destroyed by a secret USA defense in space, but a large chunk veers off toward Singapore. With another asteroid "the size of Texas" en route, a plan is devised to send oil drillers to land on the asteroid and drop a nuclear device down a 1000-foot shaft, a scheme calculated to crack the asteroid into two halves, saving Earth. NASA begins a crash program to train beer-besotted oil roughnecks for the mission. During a stopover to refuel at the Mir Station, the space station is accidentally destroyed, so a Russian cosmonaut also joins the team. Produced by Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer (Con Air), and Gale Anne Hurd (The Relic, The Abyss). by Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
Keywords:
- astronaut
- earth
- mission [quest]
- asteroid
- collision-course
- oil-rig
Themes:
- End of the World
- Daring Rescues
- Race Against Time
- Hotshots
- Space Travel
- Heroic Mission
