Deep Impact

Name: Deep Impact
Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction
Released: 1998-05-08
Duration: 122 min

Oceans rise. Cities fall. Hope survives.

19982h 2mcritics 6.3/10

Action Drama Science Fiction

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.

starring Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave

FLICKFEEL

from 32 comments

COMMUNITY

—

nobody yet

YOURS

—

…

what the internet says

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.

Nobody has rated this on FlickFeel yet. This is public discussion of this title, read into a curve. It is not a rating and it never becomes one.

Read from 32 comments (28 from Metacritic, 4 from TMDB reviews) — 11 of them described how it moves.

Thin evidence — the shape below rests on 11 comments. The shaded band is how wide the uncertainty actually is, and it is drawn to scale.

Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Metacritic28 read

“the narrative rhythm felt incredibly "stagnant" and burdened by a level of sentimentality that failed to shatter the fourth wall of my skepticism. The 95% preservation of my memory from that viewing is dominated by the repetitive and predictable emotional beats that lacked the "sensational" or "chewy" payoff”
famfacatabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“a lot of times throughout the motion picture, babies would be thrown into the mix in an attempt to faze the audience or gain some sympathy. No large bonds were built with any of the characters, the drama came more from the characters accepting death more than death occurring. We have no reason to be sad, so why cry?”
TheObsoleteabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“great ending with no happy ending”
eva3si0nabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“this makes it a lot slower and monotonous than we might at first glance”
FilipeNetoabout 0–100% inread it ↗

TMDB3 read

“I was really disappointed, considering all of the great actors involved and since I love science fiction and the great disaster films of days gone by. I bought the DVD used and got my money's worth--it's a decent watch. I would recommend watching if you like disaster movies or any of the actors involved, maybe even renting or buying the DVD used or for a really good price new, say for 5 bucks, but anything more would be wasteful or being ripped off.”
talisencrwread it ↗
“This could have been so very much better had director Mimi Leder focussed on creating either a decent science fiction film or an extinction event family drama, rather than this messy hybrid with too many slushy emotional sub plots. Téa Leoni is a television journalist assigned to investigate the resignation of a senior US Government official (James Cromwell) during which she discovers that a comet discovered a year earlier is on a collision course with Earth. President Morgan Freeman convinces h”
CinemaSerfread it ↗
“Not your typical disaster movie. In my mind this was far better than Armageddon, which came out about the same time. Instead focusing on chaos and selfishness this movie gave us a positive portrayal of people dealing with an unthinkable tragedy. I found it to be realistic and hopeful. People helped each other and sacrificed for others, even in some cases people they didn't even like. There was the expected upbeat ending with a President rallying the people, but I really got the feeling that thes”
Bytecrawlerread it ↗

Deep Impact

what the internet says

what shaped this

what critics said

what people actually wrote

🏷️ community feel tags

🎯 watch next if you liked this energy