It is STILL a cool story. Armageddon is the same basic story as Deep Impact. Both are about meteors on a direct path toward Earth. Two completely different movies. The same is true of the Kevin Costner film Wyatt Earp. Not so different from Tombstone starring Kurt Russell. John Wayne managed to make the same story into three different films over his career: Rio Bravo in 1959; El Dorado in 1966 and Rio Lobo in 1970. An argument can be made that an action star tells basically the same story in every film. What makes or breaks the story is the details. The details provided here by David Tischman are solid. The question is raised about what business Luke has in Eden. The answer seems to be to settle a score with his brother and right a wrong between them. Luke is back home to reclaim his life, another theme from a John Wayne movie. Tischman's story is in the style of Beau Smith and Chuck Dixon. If this is a comic book vehicle for Trace Adkins as an action hero, both he and Tischman are in Read Full Review
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