Deep Impact is a film that works on many levels. With it's outstanding cast and beautifully skilled direction it presents many different aspects to the gargantuan tragedy that is expected to alter, if not end all life on earth. Robert Duvall embodies the calm everyday heroism of our NASA astronauts, while Morgan Freeman is the confident, fatherly figure that a president of the United States ought to be. Elijah Wood gives an excellent performance as the young man who first discovers the comet, and later rises above his age to save the life of his girlfriend. Tia Leone is the ambitious TV news reporter who is the first to discover what is going on, despite the several upheavals in her own life, and to round out this first line of star performers is Maxamillian Schell and Vanessa Redgrave. A good, solid, mature disaster film that works well.
Review of Deep Impact
