Quite possibly the finest asteroid or comet impact movie made in the 20th century, this movie also starred Elijah Wood prior to his Lord of the Rings trilogy. A comet or asteroid heading to Earth can't be stopped despite actor Robert Duvall and his astronaut crew's best attempt to blow it up. Once again it's up to the U.S. government to save humanity from extinction by randomly selecting through a lottery system 800,000 ordinary citizens as well as 200,000 of the elite (scientists, doctors, artists and so on). These million get to live out this extinction event in caves. A ray of hope, however, is offered at the end when Wood and his girlfriend, who hasn't been selected for the caves as Wood's family was, outrace a giant tsunami and reach the safety of a hilltop.
This was not the only planetary impact movie of the year, as Bruce Willis starred in the Biblically titled Armageddon, a much less realistic depiction of what might happen.
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