Today I went to view the highly hyped disaster flick The Day After Tomorrow. I admit I love disaster movies and I was especially looking forward to seeing the Hollywood sign being wiped out by magnum tornadoes, who wouldn't?
Dennis Quaid stars as Professor Jack Hall a paleoclimatologist who tries to warn the White House that a cataclysmic weather disaster is impending due to global warming that will jettison us into another ice age.
He tries to talk some sense into the arrogant Vice President and not surprisingly is totally ignored in true political fashion.
Meanwhile the polar shelf has already shifted setting events into motion that include crazy things like tornadoes in Los Angeles and bowling ball size hail in Japan that have everyone running for cover.
During all this Jack's son Sam, blandly played by Jake Gyllenhaal takes a plane to New York City to compete along with some of his classmates in an academic competition. Of course the only reason he signed up was because he has a crush on his fellow classmate Laura (Emmy Rossum).
Climatological events are now literally happening all over the world and Jack is brought back to the White House to present his theory about the impending ice age to the President himself (Perry King). All of a sudden Washington wants to hear what the good professor has to predict about big, bad, Mother Nature.
The Day After Tomorrow is another disaster film from Director Rolland Emmerich (Independence Day).
The special effects are worth going to see the film at the movie theater for with killer tornadoes, huge thunderstorms, and monster blizzards reaping havoc with the general population of the world and New York City in particular.
We have none of the witty dialog of Independence Day but instead predictable, scripted gems like, "what are we to do now?" and this is where the film fails to deliver.
The movie has a bland and predictable storyline and the acting is mediocre at best. Now that Sam is trapped with his classmates in New York Dad makes a promise to him that he will come for him and that is the main part of the storyline. Professor Jack and a few of his co-workers travel by foot to New York City in insanely dangerous temperatures and the mother of all storms to rescue his son.
The whole northern half of the United States will be left destroyed by the massive storm and the President has ordered everyone south of Virginia evacuated to Florida, Texas, or Mexico.
There are funny parts in the movie that are truly laughable especially the killer wolves that escape from the local zoo, they were hilarious. With all these millions of people that are supposedly killed in this new Ice Age I only viewed maybe fifteen to twenty bodies through the whole film.
The President gets killed trying to flee Washington in his motorcade, wouldn't you think they would take some very extreme measures to get him evacuated? That is some pretty funny stuff.
Toss in some book burning to keep warm at the library and penicillin labeled in English on a Russian ship and a sappy teenage romance and you have this movie.
That's what you get with The Day After Tomorrow, good special effects, boring plot, and mediocre performances..what was Dennis Quaid thinking?
I would recommend seeing this movie only for the die-hard disaster movie fanatic, it is fun to watch for the special effects.
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