Sure enough, someone does. And it’s Robert Duvall doing the shouting… oh, ye gods! Not the legend Duvall!

A meteor discovered by Frodo is speeding towards Earth and not even Bruce Willis can stop it!

Morgan Freeman is a black American president – which should give you an indication of what a far-flung fantasy this movie is - invoking just a little too much “god” for us to believe that America has the brain capacity to separate church and state, who sends up astronauts Duvall and the lovely Mary McCormack (and a cast of dorks with hastily-invented science resumés) to plant explosives on the meteor and rip off Arthur C. Clarke and any other movie with Bruce Willis in it.

Some of the characterizations are very poignant (Tea Leoni and her estranged dad, Elijah Wood desperately driving girlfriend Leelee Sobieski and her infant sister away from their parents stranded in clogged traffic), but when the tragic astronauts are saying goodbye to their other halves on earth, the movie trips over and bashes its face on Maudlin.

And then Morgan Freeman gives an inspirational speech that makes my flesh crawl.


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