Deep Impact

Warren Li

    Most of the movie was all right. The first few minutes set up the theme and then it gets off track until a third of the movie to get to the real point. Morgan Freeman as the President of the United States was excellent in his speeches and echoes out a theme of survival of mankind. His speeches touched my heart and
emotions during the movie.
    Special effects were excellent such as the astronauts walking on the comet as though it's the moon. Also the comet hitting the ocean caused a cataclismic tidal wave wiping out the Eastern Seaboard, that was wild except when New York got wiped out, because the fallen buildings looked cheap. In the movie, it overly exagerrated the physics of tidal waves like flooding all the way to Ohio and Tennessee Valleys. Hi Uncles Larry Wan or S.S. Lau, why don't you calculate the effects of a billion ton comet sitting on the Atlantic Ocean and how much land it will flood, including height of the tidal wave (movie said 1250 feet high)? Mind you, that comet is 7 miles in diameter and bigger than Mt. Everest.
    The suspense got me too, because if the astronauts did not blow up the big comet, then the whole world would have got wiped out. Deep Impact appeals to your intelligence.
    Overall, I give Deep Impact above average satisfaction. I think you'll find it likewise.