Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Robert DuvallCapt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner
- Téa LeoniJenny Lerner
- Elijah WoodLeo Biederman
- Vanessa RedgraveRobin Lerner
- Morgan FreemanPresident Tom Beck
- Maximilian SchellJason Lerner
- Leelee SobieskiSarah Hotchner
- James CromwellAlan Rittenhouse
- Jon FavreauGus Partenza
- Laura InnesBeth Stanley
- 70
The New York Times
Deep Impact confines much of its horror to television news reports and has a more brooding, thoughtful tone than this genre usually calls for. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
Leder establishes a syncopated rhythm unlike anything we're used to in a catastrophe spectacle. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
You can enjoy the way they create little flashes of wit in the dialogue, which enlivens what is, after all, a formula disaster movie. - 63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Deep Impact, a triple-strand ensemble disaster flick, has a few good opening minutes, the biggest tidal wave you've ever seen in the closing minutes, and a cluster of little meandering melodramas in between. - 60
Film Threat
While the film is flawed, lacks desperately needed humor and is filled with cliches, the attempt to explore the human cost of all those cool explosions and destruction is an admirable one. - 60
Los Angeles Times
The latest in Hollywood's almost biblical procession of disaster films, Deep Impact tries with moderate success to be more than just the sum of its special effects. - 40
Austin Chronicle
Deep Impact takes the high road and offers up more tearful reunions than actual fireballs and more egregious, sappy dialogue than you can shake a tsunami at. - 30
Dallas Observer
The film is often unintentionally silly, and it might have been better if it tried to be.