Thoughts of "Deep Impact"

I watched the film Deep Impact last week on Friday

The Story of the film is that a comet that is larger then Mount Everest is heading towards Earth and will cause a Extinction Level Event. To stop the comet they send a ship called the "Messiah" I wonder if that was a bibilical reference there.

The ship's first attempt only breaks the comet in two and still sends them to Earth and after a failed attempt to knock the two objects of course with Titan missiles the smaller fragment strikes the Earth wiping out multiple cities and killing millions of people. The Statue of Liberty gets destroyed (not the first time that's happened and won't be the last). The second Comet gets destroyed by the Messiah by driving into comet and detonating their warheads inside the comet, shattering it into millions of pieces that burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere.

What are my thoughts on the film? I watched it because I was told that an asteroid was going to hit Earth this September on 23rd/24th. If that date comes and goes and no asteroid strike hits then fine. That's not what I want to talk about. Ultimatley the movie was OK, it helps that Morgan Freeman playing the President was good at what he does as well as Elijah Wood.

I'm not a disaster film geek, but I know cliche's when I see them and the first was a man who discovers the up coming disaster and tries to get the word out only to be killed by an accident.