00:00It's Armageddon.
00:01A huge meteorite the size of Texas threatens to crash into Earth
00:04and rid it of its entire population.
00:07Only the United States can do something.
00:09Because it is well known that God only blesses the United States of America.
00:12The plan, a subtlety that would unravel a sheep, is to dig a hole in the center of the asteroid.
00:17and place a nuclear arsenal there to blow everything up.
00:20The problem is that American astronauts are obviously too stupid to learn how to drill, and time is running out.
00:25NASA will therefore call on the ultimate hole expert, Harry Stamper, aka Bruce Willis.
00:29But the latter is not going to risk putting the future of humanity in the hands of men highly trained to go into space, no.
00:35He prefers to call on his friends, a bunch of losers, meh, crazy and alcoholics, to save the human species from extinction.
00:41Basically, it's Michael Bay.
00:42It makes no sense and it's bloody brilliant.
00:45Because beyond the script, Bay manages to inject a lot of energy into the film right from the start.
00:50Armageddon is subtlety at its lowest level.
00:52This is incoherence at its peak.
00:54These lines are as mediocre as they are cult.
00:56This is an exceptional cast.
00:57And it's this persistence that makes all the difference and allows the work to be strangely brilliant in its cheesy side.
01:04And still, you're moved at the end.
01:05Because our dear Bruce Willis sacrifices himself and saves the world once again.
01:09A label that would stick to him for a long time, to the point that he would play the lead role in Apocalypse,
01:13a game that would be released on the first PlayStation at the time.
01:16Willis is the perfect American hero, as ordinary as he is extraordinary.
01:20Its popularity in the late 90s was crazy.
01:22But Bruce would hate working with Michael Bay and announce he would never do so again in the future.
01:28At that time, he was filming a series of films, just like his wife Emmy Moore.
01:30The couple decided to never film at the same time so as to never leave their child alone.
01:35But the problem with this plan, which is, on the whole, quite honorable, is that they will hardly see each other anymore.
01:38The two decided to divorce in 1998, after 11 years of marriage.
01:42In 1999, he returned to his first loves, comedy and romantic drama, with Breakfast of Champions,
01:50A Life Together, and My Neighbor the Killer.
01:52It was also following a lost bet with Matthew Perry that he agreed to play a cameo in several episodes of Friends.
01:57I'm just a love machine.
02:01But you have a baby bear hood.
02:04At the dawn of the 21st century, the actor needs change.
02:08He's starting to get tired of his roles as a big oaf in action movies and other big Hollywood machines.
02:13He no longer wants to save the world.
02:14And so he decides to place his trust in a very young director who has not yet had the opportunity
02:42to prove himself in the big league, a certain M. Night Shyabalan.
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