Deep Impact

Aroview: Contrasting the gung-ho cartoonery of the other meteor-disaster-pic, ARMAGEDDON, this chooses to show the 'human side' of an end-of-the-world story, sides of which, it turns out, we'd rather not see.

The philosophical angle is the trademark of respected co-writers Bruce Joel Rubin (JACOB'S LADDER, GHOST) and Michael Tolkin (THE PLAYER, THE RAPTURE) whose usual humanist brand of cynicism is awashed here in a tidal wave of executive decisions tailored to meet the most cloying demands of the lowest common denominator. Watch fathers and daughters, macho spacemen, and spotty virgins alike sickeningly ennoble themselves in the face of impending doom...

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