Has to be one of the best film ever made and is an instant classic!!, must buy!!

Omg this is the most amazing film ive ever seen. Its jus brillant it will make u laugh, smile, and cry. I love the ending of this film ive watched it about 4times now and i will never get sick of it. You have to see it to believe me.

First of all as they say and opinion in an opinion, so it cannot be wrong. However looking at what jimfish has written is beyond belief. This film was spectacular when it was released in 1998 and it is still a fantastic film now 10 years later. Granted yes it has a simple enough plot, but the way it has been done is what makes it a good film. That and the interwoven subplots to add extra depth. The CGI effects of the film are excellent and only add to the experience when you watch it. The film is exciting enough to get the heart racing and has emotional tendancies to balance it out. Indeed the bit at the end, where Colonel Sharp asks to 'shake the hand of the daughter, of the bravest man he'd ever met' the music and the scene itself gets me everytime.

This film is well worth a watch...in fact I may just go and watch it now...so yes definately buy this film.

This is by far the best film i have ever seen. I have watched it 10 times and every time it finishes i want to hit play and watch it all over again!

all out action and suspense. huge budget, huge cast, and classic crying scenes for the ladies. a massive movie and well worth watching.

Gosh, that reviewer who went on and on about how the film was "awful" could have easily have said the film was 'good', 'great' or 'not worth buying' that's all reviews on Play.com are worth writing, nothing special if you don't mind. Anyway back to my wee review, a damn good film, not 100% original but you can't knock it, wonderful acting all round and great effects.

...this is in fact the R2 version of the American Criterion Edition.
What you get here is not only 2 discs of the finest summer popcorn entertainment, you also get a good few extra minutes of footage reinserted into the movie.
The most significant of these is a scene wherein Bruce Willis visits his father in a nursing home, this has a knock-on effect to the scene where Bruce tells his daughter he won't be coming home. There are a few extra little bits and pieces here and there, along with some additional colourful language which has bumped the certificate up to '15.'
In short, an absolute bargain with an excellent picture transfer. Sadly no DTS soundtrack though, which would have given this film 5 stars.

Another crackin film at a crackin price!!
Made by Michael Bay in 1998 with again, the great Jerry Bruckheimer as producer this is one serious action packed disaster flick!
With a brilliant story, loads of action and drama and an all star cast including Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton and many more who all give excellent performances!!
This being the 2dvd special with loads of extras you are guaranteed your moneys worth and will watch it more than once! I paid just £3.99 for mine and that was a bargain as i would have paid more to have this in my massive dvd collection!

I'm not into calling movies "the greatest ever made." I leave that up to the lazy marketing people who throw the term around whenever a film comes their way. Equally, I'm not one of these high-brow, jumped up wannabe critics who proclaim everything to be the "worst film ever made." That doesn't excuse Armageddon from getting a right good thrashing, as it is so full of American jingoism, plotholes and stupidity...That is, of course, if you can actually see what is happening in the movie, since the rather energetic director not only has an average shot length of roughly two seconds, but seems to enjoy employing shaky-cam to really confuse the hell out of the audience.

Some of the other reviewers seem to hail the film's plot as somehow original or amazingly new. Quite honestly, it falls into the same mould as all those other big-budget "Holy ****! Mankind is doomed!" films during the 90s like "Volcano", "Godzilla", "Dante's Peak", "Twister" and "Independence Day." It's the further thing imaginable from original, since another "space impact" movie was released just two months before "Armageddon", and whilst it's not much better, "Deep Impact" comes in just a step above this film. However, this review is for "Armageddon" so let's get back to it. The plot involves a group of deep-core oil drillers trained up by NASA to land upon the surface of an incoming asteroid, drill a hole, plant a nuke and destroy it before it hits Earth, killing everything where "not even bacteria would survive." It sounds reasonable enough on paper, but on film it's a horrendous. For a film that seems to bring up a lot of tears and heart-felt emotion from my fellow reviewers, not one second did I ever feel the Earth was in danger. Not once. Movies are supposed to make us suspend our disbelief and take us into a new world, but thanks to the over-stylised direction by Michael Bay, I felt like I was in a 2 and a half hour music video, not a gripping piece of cinema about the end of mankind.

Believe me, I honestly do want to be positive about this film, but everything in it is so ludicrously bad it amazes me how people could possibly enjoy it. It throws all logic and scientific accuracy out of the window nearly enough every minute - people can fire chain-guns in space and gravity only comes into effect whenever it'd be most dramatic. Okay, so science is not the movie's strong point.

What about its script? You've heard the saying "two's company", right? Well this movie redefines that saying, considering there is no less than 9 credited writers. Each of them seems to have written their own movie, come together at the end and stuck them together however they could, creating all manner of subplots that never go anywhere and characters who we never actually care about. To learn that people cry over their fate is hard to believe, considering how little we know of them, and even then they're no more than stock characters.

Special effects? Is that what people like? Again, thanks to the ADD direction by Michael Bay, the effects are nothing more than cut after cut after cut of blur, smoke and sparks. The only time I saw things clearly was during the meteor shower on New York. I saw things very clearly. Too clearly, in fact, as people fall screaming to their deaths from burning buildings and the World Trade Center stands ablaze.

Sadly I'm running out of word space to describe everything else that is wrong with this movie, such as Affleck's hammy performance, but that I'll leave you to decide. Do you want to watch a giant mess of a film that offends your ears, eyes and brain with a barrage of stupidity? I hope not, but please, buy the film by all means. I'm not stopping you. I just hope common sense does.

I first watched this film when i was about 13 in school i cried myself to sleep after ha...even to this day i cant hold back the tears. Apsolutely love it!