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Deep Impact

1998

Mimi Leder

Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave ...

5.1

28,261

Sci-Fi. Drama The story opens detailing the initial discovery of comet Wolf-Biederman by high school student Leo Biederman (Elijah Wood), who's at a telescope party with his local astronomy club. One year later, after overeager TV reporter Jenny Lerner (Tea Leoni) stumbles onto a story about the approach of an E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event), President Beck (Morgan Freeman) is forced to address the nation and reveal that a comet the size of Manhattan ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Deep Impact tries with moderate success to be more than just the sum of its special effects"	POS
United States	Duane Byrge The Hollywood Reporter	"It's a visually stunning movie (...) but 'Deep Impact' is a pretty slow-moving object. It drags considerably, and mainstream action audiences are likely to find it tedious and undeniably old-fashioned."	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"[It] is spectacular enough in its cataclysmic scenes of the planet being devastated by an unstoppable fireball, but proves far from thrilling in the down time spent with a largely dull assortment of troubled human beings."	NEU
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"Leder establishes a syncopated rhythm unlike anything we're used to in a catastrophe spectacle"	POS
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"For a suspense drama, Impact is a slack, oddly enervated and mawkish soup of largely lethargic performances"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"You can enjoy the way [the writers] create little flashes of wit in the dialogue, which enlivens what is, after all, a formula disaster movie (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU

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