A fantastic disaster movie, with great effects, touching and emotional storylines and an absolutely gripping story, the ending is so nerve shreddingly brilliant and is actually quite scary when you think about it.

This in my opinion is far better than Armageddon dont get me wrong Armageddon was a great film but I feel this film was much stronger with emotions and story.
The film begins when a teenage amateur astronomer discover a comet on a direct collision course for the Earth. The world is then thrown into turmoil has humanity has to accept their possible extinction. 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. Focusing on various unrelated characters, the film shows how people react differently to the destruction of all that they know.
Deep impact is differnt from many films as gives a very human side to tragedy and devastation by showing how ordinary people cope in times of crisis but it avoids the trap of being trite and overly-sentimental. Hence the 5stars i give it

cracking film.got left behind in all the hoopla that surrounded armageddon.this film has more heart,emotion,feel and less testosterone.great effects,good director in mimi leder who worked on er and the peacemaker.nice sense of danger,less clowning around than t`other film.better science,better script,smaller budget,more for your money as far as im concerned.a must !.