Deep Impact

Deep Impact

• Director: Mimi Leder
• Seen by this director: On the Basis of Sex, The Leftovers, Pay It Forward
• Based on book: no
• Cast: Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Morgan Freeman, Vanessa Redgrave, Ron Eldard, Leelee Sobieski
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Robert Duvall – Widows, The Road, The Stars Fell on Henrietta, The Handmaid’s Tale, Apocalypse, The Godfather etc, To Kill a Mockingbird
• Téa Leoni – House of D, A League of Their Own
• Elijah Wood – The Hobbit etc, Bobby, Paris je t’aime, Everything Is Illuminated, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Ice Storm
• Morgan Freeman - Transcendence, London Has Fallen, Oblivion, The Dark Knight Rises, Invictus, The Dark Knight, Wanted, Gong Baby Gone, Batman Begins, Million Dollar Baby, Bruce the Almighty, Levity, Nurse Betty, Amistad, Moll Flanders, Seven, The Shawshank Redemption, Robin Hood, Driving Miss Daisy, and others
• Vanessa Redgrave – Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, The Butler, A Song for Marion, Coriolanus, Atonement, Girl Interrupted, Wilde, Smilla’s Sense of Snow, Playing for Time, Out of Season, The Devils, Howards End, The Ballad of Sad Café, Prick Up Your Ears, O What a Lovely War, Isadora, Camelot, Blow-Up
• Ron Eldard – Super 8, A House of Sand and Fog, Ghost Ship
• Leelee Sobieski – Public Enemies, The Glass House, My First Mister
• Why?  Possibly interesting
• Seen:  22 May 2023 

Junior but ambitious and sharp-witted reporter Jenny Lerner (Leoni) stumbles over an FBI and presidential cover-up about a comet heading for Earth. Prognosis: extinction of the human race. It becomes public and the mission Messiah starts: to build nuclear devices in space to crash into the comet and smash it to bits.

Isn’t it a bit risky to call the mission Messiah? We haven’t had much help from messiahs so far…

Not a bad sci film. It picks up in the second half and deserves its cult status. 

3½ * of 5