Search - Armageddon [Widescreen] on DVD

MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations, Profanity Movie Release: 1998 DVD Release: 01/05/1999 Format: DVD Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 31 mins Studio: Walt Disney Video Members Wishing: 7 Genres: Action, Sci-Fi Action, Sci-Fi Disaster Film See Also: Armageddon [Widescreen] [Criterion Collection], Armageddon [UMD for PSP]

Michael Bay (The Rock) directed this science fiction action thriller in the When Worlds Collide tradition. After astronomy students discover a comet-asteroid collision, an asteroid fragment "the size of the Super Dome" threatens. It's destroyed by a secret USA defense in space, but a large chunk veers off toward Singapore. With another asteroid "the size of Texas" en route, a plan is devised to send oil drillers to land on the asteroid and drop a nuclear device down a 1000-foot shaft, a scheme calculated to crack the asteroid into two halves, saving Earth. NASA begins a crash program to train beer-besotted oil roughnecks for the mission. During a stopover to refuel at the Mir Station, the space station is accidentally destroyed, so a Russian cosmonaut also joins the team. Produced by Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer (Con Air), and Gale Anne Hurd (The Relic, The Abyss). ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide

Bruce Willis - Harry S. Stamper
Billy Bob Thornton - Dan Truman
Liv Tyler - Grace Stamper
Ben Affleck - A.J. Frost
Will Patton - Charles (Chick) Chapple

Michael Bay's sci-fi action film Armageddon comes to DVD with a widescreen transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1. A closed-captioned English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital 5.1, while a French soundtrack has been recorded in Dolby Digital Stereo. The English track gives every speaker in the system a real workout. There are no subtitles on this release. Supplemental materials include theatrical trailers and the music video for Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing." This disc will please casual fans of the film, but those looking for a deeper understanding of the film will want to look at the Criterion DVD release. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide