Although it was published like science-fiction film, the certain thing is that the call is rather something cinema of catastrophes, a subgenus that made revolution in years 70 with as outstanding titles as the COLOSSUS IN FLAMES, EARTHQUAKE, the ADVENTURE Of the POSEIDÓN or diverse and more and more the pitiful deliveries of the saga initiated with AIRPORT.
My experience with this movie was very good; this story was set in EE.UU. It 
takes place in 1998. it`s about an enormous asteroid, as large as the state of Texas, is coming to the Earth threatening destroying it completely. In the NASA the only solution that is considered viable is the one to send an equipment of drills to the asteroid so that they introduce in his center a nuclear warhead that divides it in two and thus both pieces happen to each Earth side without damaging it. For it Stampers resorts to Harry S. (Bruce Willis), the greater expert in petroliferous perforations on the high seas, and to his described equipment as drills.
The NASA after losing all type of connection with a satellite in the space, sees as the city of New York undergoes a terrible meteorite rain, EVEN discover that an asteroid as large as Texas goes towards the planet Earth, with a forecast of collision in 18 days.¶
After shuffling several hypotheses to avoid hecatombe, they decide that the best thing is to perforate the asteroid and to inside introduce a pump, that when colliding separated the asteroid in two pieces, that happened remote of the Earth. ¶After this, Dan Truman (Billy Bob Thornton) decides to bring to the best drill of the world, Harry S. Stamper (Bruce Willis) to accomplish the mission He thoughts that only if got the best machines all be perfect. ¶Harry accepts, in exchange for taking his own equipment, formed by the men with whom habitually he perforates in search of petroleum. ¶Among them some like A. J. Frost (Ben Affleck) that it maintains a sentimental relation with his daughter Grace (Liv Tyler Rocachondo (Steve Buscemi) , Bear (Michael Clarke Duncan and Oscar (Owen Wilson)
After havi
ng Harry to it`ss prepared group, they explain the mission, that will consist of two groups, in two space shuttles, the Freedom and the Independence, that they will have to be reconciled to the MIR (Russian space station), to recharge the fuel and to prepare themselves to give to a return to the Moon and to land just when the asteroid happens next to this, and the rest to them of the tail are attracted by the lunar gravity .¶After arriving at the asteroid sophisticated vehicles equipped with the machines necessary to perforate and them will have to use the armadillos, to perforate until the 240 ms to place and to go away of there, all this before the asteroid has passed denominated "barrier zero", that is to say, the distance limit so that both remaining asteroid pieces after the atomic burst, separate the sufficient thing like not colliding with the Earth.
After receiving a hard training, they are prepared to take off a day just after an asteroid collided in Asia, causing the death of 150,000 people and making public who a meteorite comes near to the Earth, with this, the hopes of the world are put in them.¶
In transfer Independence they are To J., Oscar, Oso and Freddy, and in the Freedom, Harry, Chick, Rocachondo, Max and colonel Shark of Air Force and the copilot Watts to the control of the mission. ¶They must connect the ferrys to the Russian international station, where the cosmonaut Lev Andropov will provide liquid hydrogen to them (the fuel that uses the ferrys) necessary to surround the Moon and to land. ¶During the stay, a hydrogen flight causes a failure and does that the space station explodes, being I aim to pass away the cosmonaut Andropov and To J. finally the cosmonaut march in transfer Independence.¶
After surrounding the Moon and putting themselves in the part of back of the asteroid, ready landing, a small asteroid of the tail, collides against the transfer Independence, causing that crashes. ¶The Freedom manages to land but not in the anticipated place, land in a plate in which the ground to perforate is of Ferrita ferrite compressed, which does that it is more difficult the perforation, breaking one of the drills before the 3 ms of depth. ¶Meanwhile, the collision of transfer Independence, they have survived To J. Lev and Oso, that takes the armadillo and they are arranged to meet with the Freedom.
They are arranged to activate the pump and to leave, having perforated so single 165 ms when the other armadillo with A. J., Lev and Oso, after many difficulties, manages to arrive at where finds the equipment of Harry, giving back the hopes to the world. ¶They have one hour to perforate 75 meters, to place the pump and to go away. ¶After running into again with a gas stock market being on the verge of also los
ing the second armadillo, they manage to perforate, but a tube has been clogged and it does not let put the pump, they cut it and just then an earthquake in the asteroid takes place. ¶One of the pilots of the ship passes away.¶
¶When they are arranged to place the pump definitively, this after the earthquake, has damaged and is lost the remote control, which means that somebody must remain to detonate it there. ¶They decide to throw it to the luck and To J. he is the one who finally will have to do it, Harry accompanies to him down to take leave of him, but it opens the conduit to him of oxygen and it locks up it in the compartment deciding that it will detonate he, since To J. it must marry with his fiancé’s, the Harry`s daughter.
They are going to take off, to leave, but the ship has been damaged, meanwhile Harry, makes a transmission to take leave of his Earth daughter. ¶Lev is able to repair the ship and another earthquake shakes the asteroid, causing that Harry, now single, almost dies. ¶Harry is able to arrive at the pump and to detonate it just before this passes barrier zero, destroying the asteroid. ¶Those that managed to survive, To J., Bear, Lev, Rocachondo, Chick, Shark and the lieutenant Watts, arrive at the Earth, where they are received like heroes. A.¶J. and Grace marry, during the wedding, in lecterns, are placed the Harry`s photograpies, Oscar, Max and Freddy.¶
Sound track
Armageddon: The Album
Nominations
OSCAR 1999
- Best song: I don’t want to miss a thing
- Best sound: Kevin O’Connell, G. P.Russell
- Better sound effects ¶: George Watters II
· Better special effects¶: Richard R. Hoover, Pat Mcclung.
Personages and elenco ¶
