Deep Impact (1998) (1998) poster
1998 · drama · sci-fi · thriller

Deep Impact (1998)

Directed by Mimi Leder2h 2m1998
ElsewhereIMDb6.3199kRT45%Metacritic40TMDB6.23k
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • intense
  • epic-stakes
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Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / sci-fi, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.

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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.

Our read · Deep Impact (1998) (1998) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · sci-fi · thriller entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.

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You want a thoughtful disaster movie about sacrifice more than flashy destruction.

ends bittersweetit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 10attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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Skip it tonightSkip if you want the bigger spectacle of Armageddon instead.

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Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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