All right, bros. I just finished Deep Impact.
It's funny, I had seen it before--once, in the theater--and I remembered thinking it wasn't very good. But having now re-watched it I realize that I remembered almost nothing about it. This was almost like watching it for the first time and, well, I'd give it the stamp of "pretty good." 7/10 kind of fare. Not great, but at the same time a pretty well put together movie.
It's funny though, the movie is kind of a bait-and-switch scam. For a disaster movie, there is suspiciously little disaster. Out of almost two hours, there is literally about 3 minutes of some shit on earth getting destroyed. That's it. So really what we have here is a drama that is dressed up like a disaster film.
In Twister, it doesn't take long at all before we get to see tornadoes fucking shit up. In Dante's Peak, about the last half of the film is dedicated to destruction. But with Deep Impact it's build up . . . build up . . . build up . . . and then a few minutes of destruction. While I personally found the approach interesting, I could see how someone who was going for the DISASTER part of the equation might be disappointed.
But all in all, I did enjoy it. I am surprised that it only holds a 48% on RT because if the critics were really going to get behind a film in this genre, it seems like THIS is the kind of film that would do it for them.