Movie review – “Armageddon” (1998) ***

Silly, over the top action/sci fi film, which has a terrific central idea – oil riggers sent to help blow up an asteroid – and benefits from a typically excellent Jerry Bruckheimer cast, including Steve Buscemi, Will Patton and a young Owen Wilson. Liv Tyler is nothing in a nothing role but I did enjoy the schmaltz at times and it moves along at a fair clip. Michael Bay has to hype every sequence and that gets irritating.