Deep Impact (1998)
Oceans rise. Cities fall. Hope survives.
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.
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| Type | Movie |
|---|---|
| Released | 8 May 1998 |
| Genre | Action, Drama, Science Fiction |
| Director | Mimi Leder |
| Starring | Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni and Elijah Wood |
| Runtime | 122 min |
| Rated | PG-13 |
| Scores | Rotten Tomatoes (average) 5.8/10 · Metacritic 40/100 · Rotten Tomatoes 45% · TMDB users 6.3/10 |
| Budget | $75 million |
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What kind of watch this is
Mimi Leder directs a 122-minute disaster film where the apocalypse is treated as a scheduling conflict. The hook is not the space rock, but the bureaucracy surrounding it. Robert Duvall plays a gruff astronaut sent to destroy it, while Téa Leoni plays a reporter chasing the story. Elijah Wood is there too, presumably to look young in a crisis. The tagline promises that hope survives, which is doing a lot of heavy lifting for the third act. It is a movie about the machinery of panic.
What the critics said
Critics were divided, leaning toward disappointment. Rotten Tomatoes shows a 45% Tomatometer score as of January 2026, based on 98 reviews. The average rating is 5.8 out of 10. Metacritic gives it a 40 out of 100, which it labels "mixed or average."
The consensus is blunt: "A tidal wave of melodrama sinks Deep Impact's chance at being the memorable disaster flick it aspires to be." Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times noted the film "has a more brooding, thoughtful tone than this genre usually calls for." Others were less forgiving. Rita Kempley and Michael O'Sullivan of The Washington Post criticized unemotional performances and a lack of tension.
How it did with audiences
Deep Impact cost $75 million and pulled in $349 million worldwide. That’s a solid return, though the accounting gets complicated when a rival movie makes more overall. It opened to $41.1 million, beating out Twister for the top non-holiday May spot that year. For a decade, it held the record for the biggest opening weekend for a female-directed film. Then Twilight arrived in 2008 and took the title. On TMDB, users rate it 6.3.
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- Deep Impact on TMDB — synopsis, cast, ratings and recommendations
- Wikidata Q49498 — review scores, box office and awards (CC0)
- “Deep Impact (film)” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
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