Armageddon

1998

Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 43% · 177 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 73% · 250K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 449190 449.2K

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Plot summary

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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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by paul_haakonsen 8 / 10

Enjoyable back then and enjoyable now...

Having sat down in 2022 to watch the 1998 action sci-fi movie "Armageddon" for the fifth time or so since it was released, I have to say that director Michael Bay's movie continues to be as enjoyable and entertaining today as it was 24 years ago.

The storyline in "Armageddon", as written by J. J. Abrams, Jonathan Hensleigh and Robert Roy Pool, is rather enjoyable. Sure, it is pretty straight forward stuff, generic and predictable to the core, as it usually is with these end-of-the-world-by-celestrial-bodies-hurling-towards-Earth kind of disaster movies. So you know what you are in for and what you are getting, and the movie's ending is every bit as predictable as you would expect. But it works. Oh yeah, it works.

Aside from having a good and enjoyable, albeit a somewhat cheesy and generic, storyline then "Armageddon" has a really, really impressive cast ensemble. There are so many great talents and names on the cast list here that it is bordering on being overwhelming. With the likes of Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Will Patton, Steve Buscemi, William Fichtner, Owen Wilson, Michael Clarke Duncan, Peter Stormare, Jason Isaacs and Keith David, among many others, then you truly are in for a spectacular cast ensemble. I am not a fan of Ben Affleck in any ways, but I will say that "Armageddon" is by far one of his more memorable and better movie performances. It was Peter Stomare that stole the show here for me, with his performance as the aloof Russian astronaut Lev Andropov.

Visually "Armageddon" is quite good, even 24 years after it was released. And an action sci-fi such as "Armageddon" would have failed catastrophically if it didn't have proper special effects. And believe you me, the special effects hold up even today. So thumbs up to the CGI and special effects teams for this achievement.

"Armageddon" is a timeless movie, a classic in its genre, no doubt about it. Campy and cheesy, for sure, but this is entertainment done right.

My rating of "Armageddon" lands on a well-deserved eight out of ten stars.

Reviewed by HotToastyRag 7 / 10

Great cast with tons of energy

Believe it or not, I managed to escape the 1990s without sitting through Armageddon. I'm notoriously squeamish about "we're all going to die!" movies, so the only reason I did sit through it was because it was Bruce Willis's week on Hot Toasty Rag. Thankfully, my mom prepped me for it and told me everything that happened so I wouldn't be too scared or sad. So, if you're squeamish like me, and you want to watch it anyway, just ask your mom how it ends.

He must have been busy, or didn't want to seem old enough to have a twenty-year-old daughter, but the leading role Bruce Willis took on seemed tailor-made for Kevin Costner. Bruce held his own and wound up making a certain scene one of the most iconic scenes to come out of the '90s. He plays a gruff, tough oil driller with a soft spot for his daughter, Liv Tyler. Liv, raised around gruff, tough friends of her dad, has fallen in love with one of them, and her dad's not happy about it. Liv and Ben Affleck's romance seems a little unimportant when Bruce and his entire crew are called to NASA to save the world.

Sure, I'm not a fan of the premise of the movie-a giant asteroid heading for Earth isn't my idea of a good time-but the cast is so delightful it makes everything worth it. Everyone has tons of energy and brings their own presence to the screen. Bruce had his classic combination of machoism mixed with being a softie on the inside. His fellow drillers-turned-astronauts are an eclectic group impossible to dislike. Steve Buscemi has a weakness for women, and his antics are hilarious and remarkably charming. Will Patton has a broken homelife, and he's given a touching scene the night before the rescue mission to reconcile with his family. Michael Clarke Duncan, Owen Wilson, and Ken Campbell aren't really given anything to do besides rattle off one-liners, but the one-liners are funny, so I don't think anyone will complain. Back at NASA, the head of the program and mission is Billy Bob Thornton, and he always brings a little something special to his roles. Keith David, a head honcho from Washington, brings tension and severity to the plot, and Jason Isaacs plays a scientist with good intentions.

When Bruce's group is brought to NASA, they have to go through a mini-boot camp to make sure they're physically able to undergo the mission. It's a very funny sequence, started by William Fichtner, who plays the only certified astronaut on the mission, quipping, "Talk about the wrong stuff!" when he sees the odd lineup. Bill has a great, meaty role, and he's completely believable as a disciplined, intelligent patriot who's scared yet confident. Peter Stormare puts on yet another accent, Russian this time, and plays a quirky astronaut who's been stationed in space for too long at the expense of his social skills. There are plenty of comic reliefs in this movie, Peter included, to even out the immense tension of the plot. Even though you'll be worrying about the end of the world, you'll be laughing through your fear.

Since this is a Michael Bay movie, you can expect overactive camera angles and tons of special effects. The opening sequence is incredible, even when watching it twenty years later, as a meteor shower destroys New York City. There's a lot to appreciate in this movie, with the push and pull of the characters, everyone's special quirks and motivations, and the Oscar-nominated song, "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing." The romance between Liv and Ben is really the only downside; it's supposed to be true love and more powerful than the end of the Earth, but it feels like a summer fling between two teenagers. Liv is given many tearjerker scenes throughout the movie, and since she was only twenty years old during the filming, I decided to cut her some slack. I remember the difficulties of being a young actress and how sometimes the emotions you think are being projected in front of the camera don't end up coming across very well. So, when you watch her scenes and she's supposed to be crying over the danger her boyfriend and father are in, keep her age in mind and be kind.

To call yourself a true '90s kid, you'll probably want to rent this movie. You'll probably have a good cry during the credits, but if you like these "we're all going to die!" movies, you'll probably enjoy yourself during the process. Go ahead and bring your Kleenexes, and enjoy what this very large cast brings to the screen.

DLM Warning: If you suffer from vertigo or dizzy spells, like my mom does, this movie will not be your friend. Since I counted 66 spinning camera shots and 13 canted angles, as well as 4 scenes with strobelights and 6 scenes with a severe shaky camera, you should be aware that this movie could make you seriously sick. In other words, "Don't Look, Mom!"

Kiddy Warning: Obviously, you have control over your own children. However, since this is an "end of the world" movie, I'd wait until my kids were a little older until they watch it.

Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 6 / 10

An effects-laden Hollywood blockbuster that works

Another big-budget brainless blockbuster film, this bombastic offering is surprisingly enjoyable. Definitely the more entertaining of the two asteroid films released in '98 (the other being the more intelligent, but rather stodgy DEEP IMPACT), this kicks off with an effects-laden opening which shows a shower of meteorites hitting New York and demolishing/blowing up just about everything in sight.

Of course, it has to go downhill from there, and some characterisation mixed with lame comedy filler follow for a short while. Thankfully things soon pick up with the exciting space mission and the two and a half hour running time literally flies by. There are lots of dollops of sickly sentimentalising thrown into the mix too, for good measure, but these aren't dwelt on, thankfully enough. Thankfully the producers realised that they were catering for a primarily male audience and made the film a macho testosterone-pounder instead. And it's a good one!

This film's style is to have loads and loads of quick exciting scenes edited together really fast so the action keeps cutting from place to place. While this is fine occasionally, for two and a half hours it becomes a bit overdone and tiring but thankfully I didn't notice too much. A lavish score adds to the pace and for once the special effects aren't the star of the show; I think this is why this film was a success, because it's about people more than it is about the latest in CGI technology. Sure, there are lots and lots of (good) computer effects but these only serve as a backdrop to the characters in the story.

A good cast also help to smooth over any cracks in the film and it becomes easy to forgive. A baldy Bruce Willis is the hard-bitten hero who predictably enough gets to save the planet, I liked his performance but he showed he was capable of much more than the one-dimensional hero in THE SIXTH SENSE. Billy Bob Thornton (so good as Jacob in A SIMPLE PLAN) gets to emote and look extremely stressed as the poor guy stuck on the ground while Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler supply the sentimental dross which I could have done without. An ever-amusing Steve Buscemi lends the comic angle as the astronaut suffering from "space dementia" while familiar faces like Owen Wilson (THE HAUNTING), William Fichter (imagine a young Christopher Walken), Michael Clarke Duncan (THE GREEN MILE), Jason Isaacs (EVENT HORIZON) and Keith David (THE THING) fill out the welcome supporting cast. Even Peter Stormare (the thug from FARGO) appears as an overacting Russian!

Extra fun comes from guessing who dies next and the action doesn't disappoint either with plenty of tense moments. Armageddon is not exactly intelligent entertainment but it's a fun, easy to view film with the budget all on screen and with plenty of laughs and thrills along the way. You can't say fairer than that!

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