
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.
A late-90s end-of-the-world picture that played the disaster premise with surprising restraint, focusing on family and political stakes over spectacle. Critics found it overlong and earnest but grudgingly admired the human-scale focus that 'Armageddon' lacked the same summer.