Armageddon (1998) Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Stars To review Michael Bay’s Armageddon on its scientific accuracy is to miss the point entirely. It’s like criticizing a roller coaster for its lack of informative placards about gravitational physics. This film isn't a thoughtful sci-fi drama; it's a two-and-a-half-hour, flag-waving, explosion-filled, Aerosmith-powered adrenaline shot to the heart. And on that level, it is a spectacular, often ridiculous, and undeniably entertaining success. The Plot : Famously concocted because Disney executives thought Deep Impact was “too intellectual,” is the stuff of beautiful, high-concept nonsense. A Texas-sized asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, and NASA’s only plan is to send a team of deep-core oil drillers to land on it, drill a hole, and plant a nuclear bomb. Why drillers? Because, as a frantic NASA scientist explains, “Drillers are the best kind of people to teach to be astronauts.” It’s a line so gloriously absurd it sets t...