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Walking into the movie theatre to see Deep Impact, I was expecting to see a fun and intelligent movie. These expectations derived from many of the good movie reviews I read about it in the newspaper and over the internet. Well, I did not find the movie to be much fun or that intelligent as mnay of the critics were saying. The basic plot of the movie is that a comet bigger than Mount Everest is on a collision course with earth and many the nations are doing whatever they can to prevent this from happening. They send a team of astronauts into space to try and put nukes in the comet to alter its path, but instead of doing that they just break off a little piece and soon discover that part they broke off is also heading towards earth. During this, everyone on earth is freaking out and people are starting to be chosen to stay in a cave that can hold one million people through a national lottery. These people will supposedly be able to survive the destruction of the comets. One person chosen is a teenage astronomer (Elijah Wood) who originally discovered the comet. He asks his girl-friend to marry him, so she can get into the cave, too. Another person chosen is a reporter (Tea Leoni) at MSNBC, who frst broke the story about the comets.
These characters never really get a chance to develop and the different stroies never really ever coincide with each other. It's as is you're watching two different movies. The wasn't acting was not bad, but it wasn't great either. The only standout perfromances were from Morgan Freeman (plays the President of the United States) and Robert Duvall (plays the elder astronaut in the mission). The actors also did not really have a very good script to work with. I would have to say that Deep Impact is proably the best of the natural-disaster movies, but of course that isn't saying very much. The effects, as usual, were top-notch and it is pretty obvious that most of the movie's budget went towards that. It wasn't a terrible movie as you may think from my review, but it is just a movie to go see on a Sunday afternoon when you are very bored and have nothing else to do. Lets all hope Armageddon (opening later this summer) is better.
