Deep Impact (1998), Mimi Leder, B-
In the build-up to 2012 I could no longer live with myself knowing I’d never seen Deep Impact.
It isn’t bad – well, yeah, I guess it is a little bad – but it gets points for trying.
The problem, and I believe filmmakers (other than Emmerich) are starting to realize this, is that the cast of a thousand formula can never be taken seriously. Deep Impact tries to be serious, and works up until the Astronauts show up. Then it is a total mess. Kerry Douglas Dye would never allow a screenplay so messy to leave his apartment.