Written by Mr. Mouseburger 24th Feb 2006

Kindly submitted by Jester

Roving news reporter Jenny Lerner, who was the first person to discover the massive government cover up with regards to the asteroid, condemns herself to death in order to save another news reader and her daughter (the other news reader being something of a career bitch who was never particularly nice to Jenny, thus making the decision to save her all the more noble of course!).

Freed from the problems of long term existence, Jenny decides that with her final few moments on this mortal coil nothing is more important than family, and so she finally reconciles with her estranged father at the family beach front property, moments before the first (and smaller) of the two asteroids impact. We have a touching moment as both father and daughter remember happier times as they wait for the end to come.

Far out to sea, the asteroid slams into the ocean, and the resultant impact creates a massive tidal wave, hundreds of feet high. As it races toward shore, Jenny and her father hold each other close until the wave comes and washes over them.



Old Bluffer's Thoughts

This film was altogether more interesting than the relatively braindead romp that was Armageddon, as it focused more on the impact on civilisation caused by news of humanity's impending extinction.  True, it wasn't a particularly dark vision of the breakdown of society, with only brief mentions of emergency services collapsing and the inevitable looting etc, but for this type of Hollywood movie it was refreshingly bleak at times. 
It had some interesting ideas too, for example the social security number lottery for the under 50s to decide which 800,000 Americans would be saved out of the entire population. 
At the very least, it made you think when you left the cinema, which is more than can be said for most disaster films.  For this reason alone I think it is a rather underrated film - it was definitely overshadowed by Armageddon, which was a bit of a shame.