Directed by:
Michael Bay

Starring:
Bruce Willis as Harry S. Stamper
Billy Bob Thornton as Dan Truman
Ben Affleck as A.J. Frost
Liv Tyler as Grace Stamper
Will Patton as Charles "Chick" Chapple
Steve Buscemi as Rockhound
William Fichtner as Colonel William Sharp
Owen Wilson as Oscar Choi
Michael Clarke Duncan as Jayotis 'Bear' Kurleenbear
Peter Stormare as Lev Andropov

"According to the Criterion Collection commentary, many of the errors found in the film were acknowledged by the directory and known even during filming/production and were left in deliberately (such as fire in space) because he said, "it's a movie and not many people know about it" these things were kept in for entertainment value. Additionally, some of the physical things, such as the reality of what would happen to an astronauts face when it was exposed to space, had to be deliberately altered because realistically depicting them would have been impossible for a PG-13 rating." - Internet Movie Database

• In the beginning, when the black man's dog (Richard) attacks the large salesman's Godzilla toy, it is a small one, but then, in the next scene, right before the "small" asteroid strikes, the Godzilla is bigger than the salesman. - Jessica

• Every time you see the space ships the engines have fire coming out of them. In space there is no need to run the engine once you get to a certain speed you stay at that speed according to Sir Isaac. - Wakt Hendy

• While the president is giving his speech to the world before the astronauts go up they show scenes of people from around the world. In one scene the show the U.S. and its day time and in another scene they show the Taj mahal in the day time. The Taj Mahal is in India (on the other side of the world) which means it should have been night time. - Brian Nichols

• When the astronauts reach the top of the launch tower to board the space shuttles a guy says freedom points to the right and independence and points to the left which suggests that the two launch towers are connected by a catwalk but in a later scene it shows the shuttles separate. - Brian Nichols

• The shuttles launching pads were way too close to each other. - Olav Westerman

• The Russian space station segment was totally idiotic. First, the shuttles flew like airplanes (they even banked in the turns) with blasting engines all the way to the rendezvous. Then they docked to the fastest moving parts of the rotating space station. The next thing was the assumption that the rotation should create gravity (so that the actors didn't have to be suspended in wires during the space station scenes). Of course there would be some gravity in the modules farthest away from the rotation-axis, but near the axis (in the main module) the astronauts would only tumble around, totally disorientated, just like inside a rotating barrel. Finally, why did the Russian space station carry such an amount of a type of fuel that American shuttles use? The shuttles use liquid hydrogen and oxygen (so there should have been two hoses connected to each shuttle), but the Russian rockets use other chemicals instead of liquid hydrogen. The fuel couldn't have been transported there specifically for this mission, since it would have been much easier to just let the shuttles dock directly to the Progress transport-ships that had to transport the fuel to orbit. - Olav Westerman

• When the shuttles made the turn around the moon in order to gain speed to approach the asteroid from behind, it wouldn't be very wise to have the engines firing (as they did) before at least half the turn had been accomplished and they were on their way back. Otherwise the shuttles would just pass the moon and disappear into outer space. Since there is no air in outer space and wings and rudders are totally useless, it's just a matter of pure ballistic laws. - Olav Westerman

• As the shuttles approach the asteroid they jettison the boosters they used to accelerate around the moon, but in later scenes, the boosters are still attached. - Admiral John

• When one of the shuttles crashes it shows the scene after the crash where some of the shuttle is on fire. There was no oxygen anywhere never that shuttle once the wind shield broke out. - Jimbo

• In the scene where Steve Buscemi (RockHound) goes nuts and starts firing a machine gun on the asteroid. You can clearly see that he loses his helmet in mid-air when Bruce Willis (Harry) tackles him away from the gun. - Vladimir

• Steve Buscemi (Rockhound) was not mentioned in the opening credits. - Dan

• At the end, Grace Stamper and Chic's Ex-wife are wearing the EXACT same dress. - Dan

• Notice that the "Mir" space station in the movie is not the real Mir. Why not call it something else in the movie? And I don't even want to begin commenting on the space dynamics and orbital mechanics in this film. - Aeronautic

• If I'm not mistaken, at one point in the movie Billy Bob Thornton says that the shuttles are made by combining VERY STRONG AND RESISTANT metals or whatever. Later in the movie, when A.J. gets an idea about how to go look for the others, he shoots 5-6 bullets at the wall and it falls immediately. How can that be??? - Desiree

• (Audio/visual unsynchronised) In one of the scenes when the crew is separated on the asteroid and the crawler vehicle is making it's way to meet up with the others, you can see the shadow of a movie gaff technician is cast against the smoke in the scene. - Popeye

• (Revealing mistakes) Later, in a similar shot as stated above, the vehicle appears to be on a grassy lawn in the foreground instead of a rocky asteroid. - Popeye

• (Factual errors) While the president is giving his speech and the news talks about the preparations around the world we here about tension in the "Golan straits" - there are no Golan straits, "only" Golan heights (inland Israel). - shu

Commented Goofs

• I don't now if this is a goof but when the MIR space station blows up there is balls of fire, but we all know there is no oxygen in space (Thanks to Lab teacher Miss Butz). - B.Clinton(AJ)
  • Correction: Somebody said that there would be no fire when MIR blew up because there's no oxygen in space. That's no goof... there's oxygen in MIR. - WagginRay
    • Correction: But you see there sure as hell wasn't enough oxygen in that station to sustain a ball of gas in a pure vacum. - Jimbo
  • Info: According to the Criterion Collection commentary, many of the errors found in the film were acknowledged by the directory and known even during filming/production and were left in deliberately (such as fire in space) because he said, "it's a movie and not many people know about it" these things were kept in for entertainment value. Additionally, some of the physical things, such as the reality of what would happen to an astronauts face when it was exposed to space, had to be deliberately altered because realistically depicting them would have been impossible for a PG-13 rating.
• When the team goes to land on the asteroid they land like an airplane. They are in space all they have to do is float down to the surface nice and slowly, just like they did on the moon. Plus when they land the gear isn't wheels they use landing skids. When they land on earth they have wheels. - Wakt Hendy

• Comment: The shuttle can't land nice and softly because of two reasons; 1) The shuttle is damaged and they are in emergency landing and 2) There is a little bit of gravity on the asteroid. Mostly one is the main reason. Now about the Landing gear. The Freedom and The Independence are different types of shuttles The shuttles like the Discovery and Atlantis have Wheeled landing gear. The shuttles in the movie were built for landing not only on runways but also rough surfaces like the asteroid. - Bruce

• In the beginning of the movie, Harry throws the golf club into the water. In the next scene, he has it back in his hands again. - Jonathan
  • Comment: When Harry is golfing at the green peace boat he is using a driver, when he is hunting down AJ the club he has is not a driver but a iron or maybe a wedge but its is differently not the same club that he threw into the ocean. Thank you come again. - Ash

• Okay, Let's analyze the physics guy from MIT and "...pretty much the smartest guy on the planet..." He seems to think that a nuclear missile launched at the asteroid would simply explode on the surface, hence the fire cracker analogy. However, for those of us in the real world, that is not at all the case. Ever fired a bullet at the ground? Does it bounce off harmlessly? Imagine the bullet traveling at a combined convergence speed of roughly 25,000 miles per hour. The missile would penetrate the asteroid. Possible even punch right through the other side. More realistically, the depth could be a trigger for a missile to explode in the center. But then Bruce Willis wouldn't have to die would he? - Bear
  • Comment: About letting a nuclear device hit the asteroid with great speed, so it would go deep into its target before it exploded: It's not like shooting an ordinary bullet into the ground. A nuclear bomb is a very sophisticated thing that among other sensitive things has some very intricate electronic fuses that have to go off in the right order and exact fraction of a second if the chain reaction shall occur and go on for a period long enough to set off the explosion. How much would remain of the device if it hits the cliffs on the asteroid with 25,000 miles an hour? - Olav Westerman

• When they are on the asteroid, and Hound Dog is messing around, he tells everyone about what a great view they have of the earth, then he puts sunglasses on. Why would he have sunglasses in space? - Dale
  • Comment: A very good reason for wearing sunglasses in space, is the blinding sunlight that can destroy your eyes if you happen to look at the sun without any protection. - Olav Westerman
    • Comment: But wouldn't he just use the sun-visor that's on all astronaut helmets expressly for that purpose instead of using some weird internal mechanism that places these itty-bitty sunglasses on you face that don't even protect you from sun coming in from the sides? - Igore
  • Comment: Ok, why does he need the sunglasses? Why, not? Directors or actors will ad-lib a lot of things to bring in a comic relief. The sunglasses just happens to be one of them. - N8

• The shuttles ejected the boosters and the main tanks at the same time, which they of course don't do in real life, since they don't have large interior tanks. - Olav Westerman
  • Comment: The reason for that NASA ejects the solid rocket boosters before the large external gas tank is not because there are no large interior tanks, its because NASA does not want the SRB's to hit the tank on the way down or ignite the extra fuel that is released when the tank is detached. Not all fuel is released but there is some released from the lines that connect the tank to the shuttle. - Moore Money

• (Spoiler) In the end of the movie, when Harry stays left alone on the planet, he has to push something so that the planet can be destroyed. But, when he's almost too late, the people left on the plane are saying something like they have to do it by themselves. So, they WERE actually ABLE to do it while they were on the plane, so why was Harry forced to stay on the planet to do it then? - MiZz
  • Comment: When Harry was left on the comet to blow it up and Sharp says we have to do it ourselves, he's referring to going back and doing it themselves. He's not pushing a switch to detonate, he was going to turn the ship around. That, of course, makes NO sense because there'd be no way to get back there in that little time. - Goo

Corrected Goofs

• Maybe this isn't a goof, but has anyone ever really believed that land craft intended for space exploration, such as the Armadillos in this film, will be outfitted with gattling guns? - dreamrayven
  • Correction: Maybe not in normal circumstances but after the oil drillers are introduced to the armadillo Harry implies they need to rebuild it ( when he chucks stuff out of the inside "$4000 ice-cream scoop" ) so presumably the gattling gun is a new addition for the mission. - Moo-Star

• When the President is speaking, he says "...the Bible calls this day Armageddon..." If you actually read the Book of Revelation in the Bible, you'd learn that Armageddon is a place, not a day. - Mike
  • Correction: Actually "Armageddon" is not a literal place. It refers to God's day of judgment, so it is a happening/an event. You have to read the context, it is referring to the gathering of all the nations of the world...therefore it can't be a literal place. - Mike
    • Correction: "Armageddon" is a real place. It is derived from the word Megiddo, which is a plain north of Israel. It does have significance in the end days (Rev. 16:16), but I can't imagine why the scriptwriters put that in the movie. If it's the judgment day, wouldn't the humans lose to the Asteroid? - Bob