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Deep Impact

Robert Duvall (Actor), Téa Leoni (Actor), Mimi Leder (Director) Rated:

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A great big rock hits the earth, and lots of people die. That's pretty much all there is to it, and most of that was in the trailer. Can a major Hollywood movie really squeak by with such a slender excuse for a premise? The old disaster-movie king, cheese-meister Irwin Allen (The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake), would have made a kitsch classic out of this, with Charlton Heston, rather than a resigned and mumbly Robert Duvall, as the veteran astronaut who risks several lives trying to blow up the comet that's headed right this way! As stiffly directed by Mimi Leder, this thick slice of ham errs on the side of solemnity. It may the be most earnest end-of-the-world picture since Stanley Kramer's atomic-doom drama On the Beach. There are a couple of classic melodramatic flourishes: an estranged father and daughter who share a tearful reconciliation as a Godzilla-sized tidal wave looms on the horizon; and an astronaut, communicating on video with his loved ones back on Earth, who follows whispered instructions from a buddy lurking just off camera--so that his little boy won't realize that he's been struck blind. With Morgan Freeman as the president of the United States. --David Chute

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Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
MPAA rating : s_medPG13 PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.38 x 0.6 inches; 4 Ounces
Director : Mimi Leder
Media Format : AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Run time : 2 hours
Release date : December 15, 1998
Actors : Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Morgan Freeman, Vanessa Redgrave
Subtitles: : English
Producers : D. Scott Easton, David Brown, Joan Bradshaw, Richard D. Zanuck, Steven Spielberg
Language : English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
Studio : Paramount
ASIN : 6305232660
Writers : Bruce Joel Rubin, Michael Tolkin
Number of discs : 1

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Geoff

Needed better writing. Scientifically tolerable; too much melodramatic sideshow

Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2020

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A mountain-sized asteroid is hurtling towards the Earth, which you'd think would cause for panic in the streets, but about half of the movie takes place inside offices and conference rooms, with the other half in space. The dramatic scenes in space were good even if the zero-gravity effects were unconvincing at times (now slowly wave your arm around so it looks like you’re floating). In a series of televised addresses, the President announces contingency plans and says crime and profiteering will not be tolerated, but his audience is always just crowds of people standing silently in Times Square. When they’re not being completely emotionless, the crowds in this movie seem to just go about their business as if they haven’t just found out the world is about to end. It seems we’re supposed to believe fear didn’t turn things to chaos simply because of the President’s calm decrees to remain orderly. If order was to be maintained overall, they should’ve shown violence and looting and then shown it being cracked down on in response. Where’s all the panic, the anger, the helplessness, the last-minute hedonism or perhaps suicide? Where are the religious fanatics, gleefully welcoming the world's demise? Where are the conspiracy theorists, insisting the whole crisis is fake? I think things like that would have been more believable than how the movie portrayed people at large. Instead it spends a lot of time expounding on the main character’s inexplicably bad interpersonal skills and relationship with her family. That whole plot line was not engaging in its own right and basically just pointless next to the rest of what’s going on in the film. The movie ends with loud cheering dubbed over a motionless crowd with their arms at their sides.

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Victoria Jones

Great point of view

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2016

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I expected the apocalyptic aspect,but the amount of human selflessness was fantastic. It is interesting that two movies came out so close together. Where Armageddon paints the picture of what the crew sent to save the planet experiences, Deep Impact shows what happens on Earth as well as the crew sent into space to save them. It was very well done and I can say I am interested in adding this to my collection.

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Kathie

Could an Asteroid Hit Earth Again? Yes.

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2020

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I enjoy this movie as it initially allows for a number of situations that combine to delay an alert regarding a rogue asteroid, headed right for Earth. By the time it is rediscovered, the situation has become more dire and proposed solutions are explored; a ship is sent to try to deflect or partially destroy the asteroid as well as a lottery to determine who may survive in a "safe" place until Earth has recovered sufficiently to allow for humans to walk upon it again. Morgan Freeman is a caring and believable president and a much younger Elijah Wood has a good role as a lottery winner who attempts to save his girlfriend's family as well. It gave me reason to consider the possibilities of meteoric and/or asteroid damage to this place we call Home.

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O.K. disaster movie, but I don't think it conveyed impeding doom with much impact.

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2016

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This movie is o.k. but I think that a much more spell-binding movie on this topic of the earth being in the path of a comet/planet etc., is the movie Melancholia. It does not deal with extreme measures to prevent the crash, but rather the experiences of the people seeing it, in a quiet, visceral way, which I found haunting. Sci-fi fans may prefer the action of Deep Impact, however. I didn't get the same feeling of impending doom from Deep Impact, which Melancholia provided.

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Thomas C. Fletcher

One of the greatest SF movies of all time, one of my favorite movies period!

Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2015

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Easily one of the best science fiction movies I've ever seen. It has a good cast, good special effects, a good all-around story, and actually is one of the few science fiction movies that actually gets the science right. Alright, mostly right. But most of the important stuff is either right or at least reasonable.

It is the story of a comet that is coming in toward earth, with the possibility of actually hitting it. As the months pass by and it approaches it turns out it will hit it, unless something stops it.

That is the basic story in a nutshell, but it allows for some interesting story lines along the way. I liked the characters, found them easy to like and tied up in the story in a number of different ways, from personal problems to the task of trying to stop the comet and saving the world. We see TV reporters, astronauts, the common folk, the President and various government officials -- quite a nice swathe of humanity, all things and a two-hour running time considered.

If, like me, you're interested in the science behind it, I highly recommend the website of astronomer Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy, and his review of the movie. The movie has a few blemishes scientifically, but it's far better than all of the SF movies on impactors that I've seen. And, by reading some of this site, you'll learn that not even the experts have all the answers, not yet.

Meanwhile, you can enjoy an exciting, well-done movie with good characters and a good, solid story. And some beautiful special effects.

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ふにゃっしー

派手さはないですが、名作です

Reviewed in Japan on January 24, 2019

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この映画、隕石が確実に地球に落下するという状況で、
人間がどのように振る舞うかを描いた人間ドラマが魅力的です。
シェルターに入る権利があるのに、父親と最後の瞬間を過ごそうとするニュースキャスター、
同じくシェルターに入る権利があるのに、なんとか幼馴染を救おうと奔走する高校生、
そしてもう助からないと吹っ切れて、終活をするニュースキャスターの母親等、
人間ドラマが丁寧に描写されています。特に宇宙飛行士たちの最後の通信シーンは感動しました。
人間ドラマ中心の映画は、悠長で体感時間が遅く感じることも多いですが、
この映画はストーリーが面白くて、2時間があっという間に過ぎてしまいます。

同時期に制作・公開されたアルマゲドンと比較したら、
正直派手さはなく地味ですが、災害パニック映画の中でも、かなりの名作だと思うのでおすすめです。

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Deep Impact gets to the heart of the disaster that looms

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 14, 2017

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Deep Impact is a great film which came out at the same time as Armageddon. The two films offer up the same idea but with a completely different feel...Deep Impact very much focuses on the human aspect as we see the goings on of the people on Earth as disaster looms and for many people this makes this film feel very slow but for me this is the heart of this film and makes it stand out as a strong film.

Great special effects and excellent acting all add together to create a film I have watched a number of times over the years.

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Thinking mans Armaggedon

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 5, 2013

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If you're after high octane smash bang action then look elsewhere. If you're after a movie that at least attempts to base itself a little more in a possible reality then this is the movie for you.

This movie isn't without its plot flaws or technical errors and some of the acting could be better. There is a mix of strong believable actors (Morgan Freeman, Robert Duval, Vanessa Redgrave, James Cromwell) and less convincing ones (Elijah Wood, Tea Leoni, Maximilian Schell, Leelee Sobieski)

Sadly the emotional component of the film and the part for me that it is supposed to create the greated sense of fear, resignation and connection with the characters focuses on the actors that to me were less convincing.

Tea Leoni is convincing as Jenny Learner, the upcoming reporter who stumbles across E.L.E and is thrust into the limelight much to the chagrin of her boss Beth (Laura Innes) but as a feeling human wrestling with the personal consequences and possibilities of the impending disaster I just couldn't connect with her. Likewise the start contrast between her Mum Robin (Vanessa Redgrave) and father Jason (Maximilian Schell) was palpable. Vanessa shows her classic acting talent conveying a mixture of emotions allowing me to believe she was real woman torn apart by Jason's remarriage and the impending doom. Yet Schell to me was stilted and devoid of emotion, however I will admit I'm not a fan of his.
In a similar way the other emotional theme of the film centering around Leo and Sarah fails to me due to their acting skills.
I feel that Elijah succeeds a little more due to that he seems to have a natural face that looks permanently worried when not smiling. However Leelee has a spectacular fail to convey the deep distress she is feeling as her parents save her by sending her off with her baby brother/sister with Leo to avoid the onrushing tsunami.

This is in complete opposition to the deep personal trauma that is etched across Morgan Freemans face as the president addressing the nation when the last attempts to avert cataclysm fail and how the amazing James Cromwell as former secretary of state Alan Rittenhouse conveys a deep sense of hopelessness and resignation in his brief but powerful interview with Jenny Lerner.

It may seem by now that I've torn the film apart but somehow as a whole the movie works well especially the tear jearking end where the brave crew of the Messiah bid fairwell to their loved ones as they make the ultimate sacrifice to save them and the planet.

Thankfully to me there is not so much of the chest puffing adoration seeking US patriotism as they selflessly wade in to save the world once more. Yes the USA is instrumental in the effort to save the world, but there is non of the cringe worthy dialogue and unnecessary shots of the rest of the world gratefully celebrating the USA's benevolence.
Instead there are shots of the US bearing its share of the devastation and recognition of how the rest of the planet has suffered in the heartwarming motivational speach by the President (Freeman).
And this is key difference between Deep Impact and Armageddon, this film has attempted to base itself in humility not chest beating bravado and to me that is where it beats its blockbuster brother hands down.

The transfer for the bluray is good but not one of the best of seen for a film of this age with some noticeable grain in the film that I can only assume are artifacts as I can see no reason why artistically they would be present.
Sound wise is where my disappointment is, while its Dolby TrueHD the centre vocals were strangely muffled and for a first on my system with either DTS HD or TrueHD I had to up the volume to make them clear.
Also I never really felt enveloped in the sound stage, it felt strangely flat and all at the front except for odd occasions such as the Messiah around the comet and the onrush of the tsunami.

However despite the niggles of the transfer, weaker actors and flat sound stage this is a film that I love watching time and time again.

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Spike Owen

Cities fall but they are rebuilt. Heroes die but they are remembered.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 19, 2011

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I gigantic comet is heading towards Earth, if it hits then life as we know it is doomed. Enter the president of the United States who launches a desperate plan to have NASA's finest blow up the comet before it gets here. In the meantime, all on the Earth prepare for the worst case scenario.

Deep Impact was always going to be a tough sell to the movie watching world. In spite of its best intentions to blend epic disaster with a great big human heart, Deep Impact neither appeased the sci-fi crowd or fulfilled the effects hungry popcorn brigade's gargantuan appetites. "Too talky" said one side of the cinema, "that's just ridiculous" said the other, "hey isn't this supposed to be a corny disaster film" asked the balcony, here in lays the problem. Director Mimi Leder and her writing team of Bruce Rubin and Michael Tolkin are guilty of not taking a side from which to launch their picture out of the mundane atmosphere. Or perhaps maybe, it was just a bold gamble that didn't pay off? but i'm sure nobody involved in the picture would have wanted the viewers to be hankering for the effects laden finale, and that's what happens, ultimately it's the so-so carnage that most end up remembering. Worst still is that outside of Téa Leoni's news lady central character, Jenny Lerner, no characters are fully formed to make us even care if they and the Earth actually survives. Which in a film pro porting to be an intimate study of relationships and how mankind copes with impending doom, is nearly unforgivable.

It's odd that in the same year as Bruce Willis and Michael Bay firmly went for the popcorn crowd with Armageddon, that Deep Impact was offered up as the thinking mans opposite side of the coin. Yet the reality is that Deep Impact got confused about its worth, and sadly falls some way short of being the fine movie that it obviously looked like being down on the page. A good cast is wasted and a brave move is sadly unrealised. 5/10 because deep down it does in fact pose some rather interesting questions, questions that at least make Deep Impact worth a revisit on a quiet and boring Sunday evening by the fire, but it's definitely a case of so near and yet so far far away.

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Morgan Freeman for President

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 13, 2017

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A humanistic approach to a disaster movie lately those are becoming rare e.g. Armageddon which was a great movie but less realistic I do recommend you watch both as they were realeased at the same time

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