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Cheese.com. This film is full of those moments that make you proud to be American. Even if you’re from Bradford. Or France. You wonder whether the writers had to keep a pen in one hand and a bucket in the other for some of these lines:

Colonel William Sharp: Miss Stamper? Colonel Willie Sharp, United States Airforce, ma’am. Requesting permission to shake the hand of the daughter of the bravest man I’ve ever met.
(Why not just say her Dad was a brave man?)

The little boy runs out to his Dad, the shallow guy tells a bimbo he wants to have babies and Liv Tyler snogs Ben Affleck as fighter jets do a fly-past. What better way to celebrate the salvation of humanity?

AJ: Oh man. Well, we all gotta die right? I’m the guy who gets to do it saving the world.

There’s enough bagpipe in the final scene for the latent Scot in all of us, funny how it sounds like Braveheart. However, Armageddon had to be done because we all need to know what would happen if a giant ball of rock was headed towards Earth. Naturally, the USA would come to the rescue with some hard-ass drillers and a nuclear bomb. Pure nineties chic.