The film Armageddon is one of those things that's almost embarassing to watch. It is so overdone and ridiculous that it could have made a great comedy, but instead "director" (clown is more like it) Michael Bay decided to take the screenplay and film as seriously as possible to make what has to be one of the worst damn movies I've ever had the displeasure of viewing. As you may have guessed, the score is right up the film's alley. An over-dramatic, over-done, sloppy mess. Like the film, instead of making you watch asteroids fall, it would rather be more like having asteroids come down and hit you over the head.

And besides that, it sounds more like a rock album than a film score anyway, and what serious fan of film music wants to sit down and listen to rock? When you combine this with thin orchestrations you have something that just about everyone should avoid like the plague.

And what's with this main theme, anyway? I've actually read reviews by people who though that the theme was actually very good. I've even read it described as "awesome". I personally find it to be "awesome" in no way whatsoever. It's just a filtered down hack-job of James Horner's incredible theme from Apollo 13, and it's so simple in construction that it was probably written by Rabin in under ten minutes. Even more disturbing is the cue "Launch" which not only uses the theme, but even goes so far as to make an amalgam of "The Launch" from Horner's score.