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Movies you probably missed: Deep Impact (1998)

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Rob Archer
May 01, 2013
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As clumsily-paced as Deep Impact was, it's still superior than the louder and more financially successful Michael Bay explosion-porn Armageddon.

Deep Impact not a great movie, but it's not a stinker either. It aims for intelligence, gets there for the most part, and gets some of the science right.

The biggest weakness is the pacing of the multiple story l…

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