Back in 1998, two Hollywood studio's rushed to get their 'meteor-hits-the-Earth' movie out first. The first to arrive was Dreamwork's Deep Impact, directed by The Peacemaker's Mimi Leder. In typical '70's disaster movie fashion, it take forever to get going. We meet friends and families of the main characters as well as get thrown into a political mystery we already know the answer to, before the movie starts.
But once the impact of the Comet is announced things pick up. We bounce between the space mission (restrained, but high quality spaceship effects) to preparation of the government and families on Earth. Deep impact considers itself an ernest drama, and is intent on showing how a cometary collision would affect our planet's residents.
Deep Impact is very watchable, once it gets going, but it's trying too hard to be 'serious' and 'worthy'. The special effects of the comet's collision look seriously dated in some shots...and you can't help but think that Roland Emmerich is laughing his arse off at their petty attempt at metropolitan destruction.
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