When NASA detects a Texas-sized asteroid on a collision course with Earth, director Dan Truman concludes that the only way to avert the end of humanity is to drill into the surface of the rock and detonate a nuclear bomb inside it. For the job he turns to the world's best oil driller, Harry Stamper, who accepts the suicide mission on the condition of going into space with his own crew of grizzled, undisciplined roughnecks, among them the impetuous A. J., who is courting his daughter. A disaster blockbuster from Michael Bay, pure adrenaline, sentiment, and large-scale spectacle.