Deep Impact (1998) Critic Reviews

You can enjoy the way they create little flashes of wit in the dialogue, which enlivens what is, after all, a formula disaster movie.Read the full review

Leder establishes a syncopated rhythm unlike anything we're used to in a catastrophe spectacle.Read the full review

The latest in Hollywood's almost biblical procession of disaster films, Deep Impact tries with moderate success to be more than just the sum of its special effects. Read the full review

Unfortunately, an A-list group of actors doesn't mean a lot when there isn't much of a script.Read the full review

To its credit, the movie eschews cheap dramatics, but at times it eschews dramatics altogether.Read the full review

Deep Impact confines much of its horror to television news reports and has a more brooding, thoughtful tone than this genre usually calls for.Read the full review

If director Mimi Leder is really guilty of anything, it's of wasting three first-rate actors (Morgan Freeman, Vanessa Redgrave, and Robert Duvall) in underdeveloped roles while allowing Leoni's shell-shocked, unconvincing turn to become an embarrassment. Read the full review

The season's first comet-targets-Earth special effects extravaganza is spectacular enough in its cataclysmic scenes of the planet being devastated by an unstoppable fireball, but proves far from thrilling in the down time spent with a largely dull assortment of troubled human beings.Read the full review

These folks are so blase, you'd think that scientists had predicted pennies from Heaven instead of world's end within the year.Read the full review