Deep Impact - 1998
Director: Mimi Leder
Cast: Tea Leoni, Morgan Freeman, Robert Duvall, Elijah Woods, Leelee Sobieski
Rating: 
The only two good things about this movie were the first and last five minutes; the movie starts with two youngsters from an astronomy club (Elijah Woods & Leelee Sobieski) observing few planets through a telescope where one of them discovers an unrecognizable object… very catchy and tempting, then suddenly the movie is shifted to a totally different mood, where an ambitious reporter (Tea Leoni) tries to reveal the secret behind a scandal in the white house. To me, this movie has a different angle and perspective from the rest of the “end of the world” movies. Every single movie we saw about unforeseen global disasters strongly focus on their heroic characters and urbane spaceships until such plots became dragging and redundant, we reached a level where we have to think twice before we go watch such movies and you’re more likely to hear “I’ll just rent it on a dvd when it comes out”.
To go back to our subject, Tea Leoni gave a nice performance in which she portrays a very tough single woman who’s family life “to her” is a miserable one; having a divorced drunk mother and father who is married to someone her age, on the other side, you can see her getting to places she never dreamt of in her career. Morgan Freeman, who plays the President of the United States, had a minimal effect on the movie’s sequential events. Personally, I love Freeman’s acting, but in this movie, the role’s impact wasn’t his type to play. Besides, I was shocked to see Robert Duvall (God Father’s Tom Hagen) as a captain of a spaceship who’s not taken seriously by his team members, to me Duvall is legend not a spacecraft driver.
Mimi Leder, the director, didn’t have much of movie direction, her biggest two hits were “Deep Impact” and “The Peacemaker” which almost gives an insight about the type of movies she tends to make: gloomy and systematic thrillers with a political touch
All in all I found the movie adequately entertaining for the big screen, but still lacks the right attributes to make it one hell of a good movie that you can watch over and over again….so yes, you may wanna watch it!
I think it’s entertaining. I like “end of the world” movies… all natural and humans-unwittingly-destroying-the-elements kind of disasters… volcanos, astronomical objects, floods, ice age blizzards, earthquakes… the whole lot. Some such movies are better than others, and there are many really lousy ones, but I still watch them all.
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