A comet is found to be heading directly for Earth and its
impact will have devastating consequences unless it can be diverted away.
We experience the events through different characters. There’s
the journalist who wants to make it big but then is shaken by what’s going to
happen. There’s the kid who was the person to
actually discover the comet. There is the shuttle crew who are attempting to
destroy the comet before it reaches Earth. In these films, the crew who are
trying to stop the comet (or whatever it happens to be) are always really
brave. They accept that they have to sacrifice themselves (spoiler! The film
was out in 1998 though, there’s no excuse for having not seen it) to save their
families and everyone else and they do it without any fuss. When they’re saying
goodbye to their families it just breaks my heart. How do you even begin to say
goodbye to the person you love? Nothing would seem like enough. But I suppose it would spur you on because you'd know that they were going to be safe.
I really love this film. And all disaster films, really. I
know they’re cheesy and whatever but I just don’t care. They make me sad.
Partly because of the sadness of what’s happening but also because people can
end up being so lovely and it’s sad that it’ll end. I had more to say about the
film but all the crying has kind of knackered me.
9/10
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