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I like disaster movies, so I was looking
forward to seeing New York City drowned in Deep Impact.. But the
movie was a real disappointment. The special effects of the
meteor strikes were dramatic enough, but all of the acting seemed
comatose. Most scenes of the disaster victims showed them
standing motionless in herds, gawking open-mouthed at a
television screen, dumbly listening to useless technical details
about the size of the approaching meteor. It was very weird. When
a lottery to choose the few million people who were to survive
was announced, no one said a word. Parents are shown calmly
letting their kids walk away from them into the meteors' path.
The unfolding of the action made it seem that most of the
characters didn't even think to get off the beaches before they
actually saw the meteor in the sky headed toward them. Tea Leoni
as the leading actress was just dreadful. She seemed to be stoned
out of her mind on pot all the way through the movie. Morgan
Freeman wasn't much better.
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