Deep Impact movie review

Mimi Leder's Deep Impact movie hit movie theaters in 1998. The comet movie opened up with $41 million in box office ticket sales to compliment the high demand for good end of the world movies associated with comets and asteroids. Deep Impact reveals a doomsday scenario involving a large comet on pace to collide with Earth. The end of the world movie chronicles the human reaction to a possible end of the world extinction level event. What would you do if told the world would end?

Deep Impact opens with a high school Astronomy club viewing the stars. Leo Biederman (played by Elijah Wood) discovers a displaced stars in the night sky. He alerts his teacher Mike Perry (Mike O'Malley) of the discovery. Mike instructs Leo to snapshot the unknown object so that Dr. Wolf (Charles Martin Smith) can review the images. We sense this discovery is something related to a comet. 

Dr. Wolf inserts the disk the Astronomy club sends to him. While eating a slice of pizza, he  inputs a few projections to examine the unknown star. Out of nowhere, Dr. Wolf make a stark discovery that this unknown stars is a comet with a trajectory to collide with Earth. He uploads the content, and then races to alert the world. However, he dies in a car accident. 

A news anchor Jenni Learner (Tea Leoni) investigates the Secretary of Treasury Alan Rittenhouse's (James Cromwell) premature resignation. There is confusion between Jenni and former Secretary Rittenhouse. It is obvious Rittenhouse assumes Jenni is aware of E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event). He refers to the news as the bigger story in history. 

While Jenni dictates notes on the Rittenhouse interview, secret service personnel slam into her vehicle. She is then escorted to a private location to meet with the President Beck (Morgan Freeman). Whereas Jenni is confused to the truth about E.L.E., President Beck gives Jenni a presidential favor to ask the first question at a Whitehouse news conference. For the most part, we discover that Deep Impact is a serious movie detailing the end of the world comet collision through the eye of the United States.    

We begin to realize that Deep Impact is a brilliant collage of stunning visuals and excellent storytelling. The ultra Deep Impact movie delivers an ensemble cast of top Hollywood performers to convey the end of the world. The comet movie is super energizing, portraying how humans behave prior to the doomsday comet impact. Will you reunite with a loved one? Reconnect with old friends? Find religion? Get saved? How will you respond to the end of the world?   

A space shuttle Messiah is sent into space in an attempt to destroy the large comet. A small percentage of people are selected to reside in a tavern designed to ensure that the future of humanity lives on. People loot stores, sell equipment at high prices to profit, and millions of Americans flee to escape the expected tsunami projected to smother the East Coast, Western Africa, and the U.K.   

The all-star Deep Impact cast of Robert Duvall, Ron Eldard, Jon Favreau, Mary McCormack, Leelee Sobieski, Kurtwood Smith, Morgan Freeman, Elijah Wood, and Tea Leoni make this movie an entertaining end of the world portrayal. We watch how humanizing the characters will develop a connection with the moviegoer to show compassion. As soon as you watch the Deep Impact movie, you will find that reliving the end of the world comet doomsday event over and over again becomes rather entertaining. Enjoy the Deep Impact comet movie on a Friday movie night.