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The Day After Tomorrow
An American weather scientist makes the most important discovery of our time when strange storms start happening all over the planet. The usual happens with this sort of thing, nobody listens to him, especially when he says a Superstorm is coming and will kill almost everything in the Northern Hemisphere.
As it happens, his son is trapped in New York as the Superstorm strikes the Northern Hemisphere and he braves the extreme weather by trekking across America on foot to save his son.
Hence a big ‘told you so’ and a thumbs down for the U.S Government.
That’s really about as far as the plot goes and it’s carried out as well as it could have been.
The film is the usual Emmerich disaster film that shows various landmarks of America being smashed and hammered by natural disaster.
The movie borders at times on laugh out loud funny, but it’s unintentional sadly. Some of the ‘science’ used is cod at best and the dialogue is rip-roaringly cheesy.
If the viewer was to watch the film and imagine it as a spoof, it’s actually much more fun than watching it as a seriously made film.
It’s also extremely stereotypical with the portrayal of anything outside of the USA, which is another Emmerich touch that’s seen in Independence Day and 2012.
The effects are top notch though and they’re actually quite thrilling to watch. The action too is pretty well choreographed and exciting, especially when tidal waves hit New York.
The acting sadly is pretty substandard. Jake Gyllenhaal is wooden and unbelievable as Dennis Quaid’s son.
Dennis Quaid is probably the best of the lot, though he has a look on his face that says "Why am I doing this?"
Still though, he hits his mark professionally.
All in all it’s a popcorn brainless CGI adventure that promises lots of flash, tries to have an air of scientific depth to it but simply just delivers, well, flashy CGI adventures and funny dialogue.
My rating 65%
An American weather scientist makes the most important discovery of our time when strange storms start happening all over the planet. The usual happens with this sort of thing, nobody listens to him, especially when he says a Superstorm is coming and will kill almost everything in the Northern Hemisphere.
As it happens, his son is trapped in New York as the Superstorm strikes the Northern Hemisphere and he braves the extreme weather by trekking across America on foot to save his son.
Hence a big ‘told you so’ and a thumbs down for the U.S Government.
That’s really about as far as the plot goes and it’s carried out as well as it could have been.
The film is the usual Emmerich disaster film that shows various landmarks of America being smashed and hammered by natural disaster.
The movie borders at times on laugh out loud funny, but it’s unintentional sadly. Some of the ‘science’ used is cod at best and the dialogue is rip-roaringly cheesy.
If the viewer was to watch the film and imagine it as a spoof, it’s actually much more fun than watching it as a seriously made film.
It’s also extremely stereotypical with the portrayal of anything outside of the USA, which is another Emmerich touch that’s seen in Independence Day and 2012.
The effects are top notch though and they’re actually quite thrilling to watch. The action too is pretty well choreographed and exciting, especially when tidal waves hit New York.
The acting sadly is pretty substandard. Jake Gyllenhaal is wooden and unbelievable as Dennis Quaid’s son.
Dennis Quaid is probably the best of the lot, though he has a look on his face that says "Why am I doing this?"
Still though, he hits his mark professionally.
All in all it’s a popcorn brainless CGI adventure that promises lots of flash, tries to have an air of scientific depth to it but simply just delivers, well, flashy CGI adventures and funny dialogue.
My rating 65%
