![]() ![]() ![]() The brilliant cast, including Morgan Freeman, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Devall, Elijah Wood, Ron Eldard and many others, all given great depictions of their characters. Focusing on various unrelated characters, the film shows how people react differently to the destruction of all that they know. While NASA sends a shuttle up with the intention to try to blow the comet to bits, the US government selects people to be saved in a cave they are building to withstand the event. The world is then thrown into turmoil has humanity has to accept their possible extinction. The film begins when a teenage amateur astronomer discover a comet on a direct collision course for the Earth. Both 'Deep Impact' and 'Armageddon' were released in that year but while I did enjoy the thrill and special effects of the latter film, I find 'Deep Impact' the superior of the two. It seems 1998 was the year Hollywood turned to the idea of the world being decimated by objects from outer space to fuel their disaster films. ![]()
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