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  • 70
    The New York Times | Elvis Mitchell

    Deep Impact confines much of its horror to television news reports and has a more brooding, thoughtful tone than this genre usually calls for. Read full review

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Leder establishes a syncopated rhythm unlike anything we're used to in a catastrophe spectacle. Read full review

  • 63
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    You can enjoy the way they create little flashes of wit in the dialogue, which enlivens what is, after all, a formula disaster movie. Read full review

  • 60
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    The latest in Hollywood's almost biblical procession of disaster films, Deep Impact tries with moderate success to be more than just the sum of its special effects. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    To its credit, the movie eschews cheap dramatics, but at times it eschews dramatics altogether. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    The season's first comet-targets-Earth special effects extravaganza is spectacular enough in its cataclysmic scenes of the planet being devastated by an unstoppable fireball, but proves far from thrilling in the down time spent with a largely dull assortment of troubled human beings. Read full review

  • 40
    Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov

    Deep Impact takes the high road and offers up more tearful reunions than actual fireballs and more egregious, sappy dialogue than you can shake a tsunami at. Read full review

  • 40
    Salon.com | Charles Taylor

    Deep Impact is the work of someone crass enough, and in some essential way mad enough, to try to turn the apocalypse into a tear-jerker. Read full review

  • 20
    Washington Post | Rita Kempley

    These folks are so blase, you'd think that scientists had predicted pennies from Heaven instead of world's end within the year. Read full review

  • 10
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    For a suspense drama, Impact is a slack, oddly enervated and mawkish soup of largely lethargic performances. Read full review

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