Storyline
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.
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Cast
Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Richard Schiff, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Jon Favreau, Ron Eldard, Vanessa Redgrave, Alimi Ballard, Robert Duvall, Kurtwood Smith, Mike O'Malley, Leelee Sobieski, W. Earl Brown, Mary McCormack, Dougray Scott, Tucker Smallwood, Una Damon, Charles Martin Smith, Suzy Nakamura, Blair Underwood, Maximilian Schell, Jason Dohring, Laura Innes, Derek de Lint, Denise Crosby
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Reviews
70
The New York Times
Deep Impact confines much of its horror to television news reports and has a more brooding, thoughtful tone than this genre usually calls for.
67
Entertainment Weekly
Leder establishes a syncopated rhythm unlike anything we're used to in a catastrophe spectacle.
63
Chicago Sun-Times
You can enjoy the way they create little flashes of wit in the dialogue, which enlivens what is, after all, a formula disaster movie.
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Deep Impact, a triple-strand ensemble disaster flick, has a few good opening minutes, the biggest tidal wave you've ever seen in the closing minutes, and a cluster of little meandering melodramas in between.
60
Film Threat
While the film is flawed, lacks desperately needed humor and is filled with cliches, the attempt to explore the human cost of all those cool explosions and destruction is an admirable one.
