Deep Impact (Special Collector's Edition)

I read what David Chute had to say and he is almost completely wrong. The movie was great with remarkably developed characters, superb dialogue, and terrific acting. Robert Duvall gives a 5 star performance and the movie is certain to be one of your top 20 favorites.

Its not just some big rock hitting earth and killing a lot of people. That sort of comment should be beneath anyone who represents amazon. The truth is, the meteor is discovered about a year's travel from earth. At first, a coverup while the government decides what to do about it. The press find out (as they always do) and the world as a whole is forced to deal with the situation. The movie goes from executing three plans for survival each heart wrenchingly realistic. This isn't a silly bunch of oil diggers being sent up by NASA-- as was the case in the ridiculously far-fetched Armageddon-- this is a movie steeped in fact! Entertaining from start to finish, I highly recommend it!

We are very pleased. Great packaging and it arrived within stated time. This is such an awesome movie! I have watched it several times and certainly will watch it more.

This film was totally overshadowed by Armageddon (they came out during the same summer), but is far the better movie. It lacks the unrelenting action of Armageddon (which is too much for me personally - makes me queasy), but more than makes up for it in character development and believable plot. This is a thinking person's disaster flick; it feels honest in the way the plot moves forward, rather than contrived. Definitely worth a look - if you like a bit of intelligence and believability in your sci-fi flicks, this is a great choice.

I love disaster movies, but this was just a soap opera. It's about 7/8ths into the movie before anything happens. What do you want to see in a movie named Deep Impact?.... a deep impact! Well, you'll get it, but only after you've sat though most of the movie watching melodramatic scene after scene. Even when the impact happens, the special effects are intermixed with boring scenes of families declaring their love, blah blah blah. Boring. This is as bad as Gone in 60 Seconds. A movie which was all planning, planning, planning, then a few minutes of action. Avoid this flop.

Deep Impact DVD

Robert Duvall and Tea Leoni in a movie about a comet on a collision path with the Earth. An ambitious reporter is investigating what she thinks is a Washington sex scandal when she accidently discovers that E.L.E. is not a girl's name. A comet is coming to earth and it's not going to stay for supper.

The most outstanding line IMHO in this movie is "I know you're a reporter, but you used to be a human being."

Highly recommended for Science Fiction fans and fans of Robert Duvall and Tea Leoni.

Gunner February, 2008