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Armageddon
Can Bruce Willis and friends save the Earth in time? The Plot: A huge meteor is heading for Earth, so big that if it hits the Earth then all life on this planet will be destroyed. There is only a short time before the inevitable, and the American government is desperate for a solution to stop the meteor. Meanwhile Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis) is on his oil rig, getting annoyed with his daughter’s boyfriend whom he hates, because of one big mistake he made. Then government
officials took Harry away and told him what was going on. They wanted
him, with his drilling expertise, to go on a mission to fly to the
meteor, land on it, and drill a big hole in the rock, so that a nuclear
bomb can be implanted into it to explode it, splitting it into two,
with the two parts diverting around the Earth rather than hitting
it. Harry said he will do it so long as he chooses the men to go with him, others he trusts who can drill. The government has already stolen his invention for the ultimate drill, but they cannot get it to work, so Harry fixes it for them. The other men are called in and trained for space flight. They, along with real astronauts, are to fly in two specially-modified space shuttles with the drilling equipment and bombs on board. Meanwhile small parts of the meteor have landed on Earth already, Paris and other cities are totally destroyed.
The others return
to Earth as heroes, as the meteor splits A very good film, long, very exciting, kept me interested the whole way through. I had no idea how it would turn out and was pleased the way it went. Very well done.
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A meteor the size of Texas is heading for Earth, threatening
to annihilate all life on our planet. 
They fly up there, but one shuttle is destroyed by flying
debris and its crew killed. A few of Harry’s men survive and
drive in the drilling vehicle to where the others have landed. Meanwhile
they are having problems drilling through the very dense iron-rich
rock and the drill bits all break. Also the President has a backup
plan, to detonate the bomb regardless, and the captain of the crew
is informed and tries to kill the others and set off the bomb, however
Harry beats him and disables the timer which is going to set off the
bomb, and gets the captain on his side. The others arrive, they all
work together, and then get the hole drilled to the required depth.
However, one man must stay behind to manually detonate the bomb while
the others escape on the shuttle. Harry volunteers and stays.
in two as the bomb works. And Harry’s
daughter (Liv Tyler) marries her boyfriend who was also on the meteor
mission and returned safely, saved by her father’s sacrifice.
