Armageddon - Movie Review

MPAA Rating: PG13

Director: Michael Bay

Genre: Sci-Fi Action, Sci-Fi Disaster Film, Action

Box Office: / $201,578,182

Release Date: July 01, 1998 (USA)

Cast:
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 (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

The Island - Movie Review

MPAA Rating: PG13

Director: Michael Bay

Genre: Sci-Fi Action, Psychological Sci-Fi, Action, Science Fiction

Release Date: July 22, 2005 (USA)

Story:Blockbuster action director Michael Bay delivers a striking look at a strange world of the future in this sci-fi action drama. Midway through the 21st century, Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) lives in a confined indoor community after ongoing abuse of the Earth has rendered most of the planet uninhabitable. One of the only places in the outside world still capable of sustaining life is an idyllic island where citizens are chosen to live through a lottery. Or at least that's what Lincoln and his fellow citizens are taught to believe; the truth is that Lincoln, like everyone he knows, is actually a clone who is kept under wraps to provide needed organs when the person who supplied his or her DNA falls ill. When he becomes aware that his existence is a fraud, Lincoln escapes to the outside world with a fellow clone, Jordan Two Delta (Scarlett Johansson), though the powers that be are determined to see that no one gets away alive. The Island also stars Steve Buscemi, Djimon Hounsou, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Sean Bean. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide