Welcome to Disasterpiece Theater guys!
I can easily identify with the message about global warming that director Roland Emmerich sends in his latest disaster epic, The Day After Tomorrow.
The problem is, Id rather watch a 90-minute documentary on the subject than endure this film, which desolves into silliness.
And before you protest to my opinion on this film, don't. I realize it's just entertainment, but its positively wretched in some spots. I already saw it and once you've seen one disaster movie after another you seen them all. I am not going to give you any spoilers but I am warning you that the film suffers from the same malady that tends to sink Emmerich's other films. Its about as fresh as an open can of week-old beer.
To Emmerich's credit the opening sequence is wounderfully filmed, but he revels in excess. An example: a ship sailing up the same street that is home to the New York Public Library.
You have to love Emmerich's point about our shortsightedness with respect to how we use our natural resources and neglect the planet. You only wish that it hadn't been relegated to a film that mutes the message with the din of silliness.
Its a nice disaster film but thats all it is. Once you seen disaster movies you've seen them all. So far though the film got a rateing of 2 stars which I am not deeply surprised. I will most likely see it again because disaster movies are just so neat when it comes to special effects and the whole visual aspect of it.
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