THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Ian Holm, Dash Mihok...
Director: Roland Emmerich
Writer: Roland Emmerich, Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Review Date: 06/03/04
Written By: Suj
Rating: 4/10
THE PLOT:
The entire northern hemisphere is under the hold of mother nature. While climatologist Jack Hall must head new york to save his son...
THE REVIEW:
This is a Roland Emmerich movie filled with all his trademarks, think Independence day but instead of aliens we have mother nature. Since this is a Emmerich movie I did enjoy all the special effects which led to the destruction and mayhem that the cities featured endured and I also enjoyed the whole preaching to the government aspect about what is to come if we don't protect our planet.
Another plus this film had was its humour with a few laughs coming from Gyllenhaal and Mihtok also the funniest moment involves the irony of Mexico closing its borders to stop the invasion of Americans. Aside from what I just said above and the performance of Dennis Quaid (minus one aspect of his character, which I’ll get to below) and the presence of Emmy Rossum, that’s all the good this movie has.
Now lets get the skin and bones of the movie that made it such a disappointment. For starters most of the characters are just utterly stupid and or pathetic stereotypes who are made even more stupid by the words coming out of their mouths thanks to the stupid script and yup I said stupid four times in this sentence, make that four.
And what's up Dennis Quaid he walks from Washington, D.C. to New York City and its said he's done this before, but has he done it in the worst weather in known history? This whole trek is just stupid (there’s that word again)
Some other places where this movie falls is in its sentimental storytelling. They introduce a young cancer patient solely to have him trapped at the hospital during the evacuation. Another is the whole I-like-her-but-I-don’t-know-if-she-likes-me relationship between Rossum and Gyllenhaal’s character and when I saw this I was pondering whether or not I was watching a disaster movie or a Freddie Prince Jr movie? Lastly there wasn't enough development to grater establish the father-son relationship between Quaid and Gyllenhaal, so that angle didn't really work for me. Its all just an obvious ploy to toy with the viewer's emotions.
Also there are some really ridiculous subplots in this movie. There's one involving Gyllenhaal and company getting medicine from a boat for Rossum character and when getting said medicine they are attacked by rabid CGI wolves. Upon fighting off the wolves and escaping a wave of blistering cold, the reason for them doing so is never mentioned again, which makes it obvious how unnecessary it was in the first place. Also The subplot with Ian Holm at the British weather station is conveniently forgotten. There also seems to be little point to the Los Angeles twister sequence, since the city has absolutely no importance to the story and it makes little sense once it's established that its well into the weather "safe zone".
Now lets get to the ending where we have most of the characters and the government types throughout the movie bitch and moan how there’s nothing they can do to prevent this disaster, so when the mother nature comes and goes, it's very anti-climatic. There are no real heroes in the movie and trying to create a happy ending from the fact that a few people survived in a city of millions is stupid.
When I first saw the trailer for this movie I was really blown away, but now after witnessing the full movie from beginning to end all I can say is that it was a big disappointment as it felt more like a bad tv movie then THE disaster movie to end all disaster movies that many people made it out to be.
Director: Roland Emmerich
Writer: Roland Emmerich, Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Review Date: 06/03/04
Written By: Suj
Rating: 4/10
THE PLOT:
The entire northern hemisphere is under the hold of mother nature. While climatologist Jack Hall must head new york to save his son...
THE REVIEW:
This is a Roland Emmerich movie filled with all his trademarks, think Independence day but instead of aliens we have mother nature. Since this is a Emmerich movie I did enjoy all the special effects which led to the destruction and mayhem that the cities featured endured and I also enjoyed the whole preaching to the government aspect about what is to come if we don't protect our planet.
Another plus this film had was its humour with a few laughs coming from Gyllenhaal and Mihtok also the funniest moment involves the irony of Mexico closing its borders to stop the invasion of Americans. Aside from what I just said above and the performance of Dennis Quaid (minus one aspect of his character, which I’ll get to below) and the presence of Emmy Rossum, that’s all the good this movie has.
Now lets get the skin and bones of the movie that made it such a disappointment. For starters most of the characters are just utterly stupid and or pathetic stereotypes who are made even more stupid by the words coming out of their mouths thanks to the stupid script and yup I said stupid four times in this sentence, make that four.
And what's up Dennis Quaid he walks from Washington, D.C. to New York City and its said he's done this before, but has he done it in the worst weather in known history? This whole trek is just stupid (there’s that word again)
Some other places where this movie falls is in its sentimental storytelling. They introduce a young cancer patient solely to have him trapped at the hospital during the evacuation. Another is the whole I-like-her-but-I-don’t-know-if-she-likes-me relationship between Rossum and Gyllenhaal’s character and when I saw this I was pondering whether or not I was watching a disaster movie or a Freddie Prince Jr movie? Lastly there wasn't enough development to grater establish the father-son relationship between Quaid and Gyllenhaal, so that angle didn't really work for me. Its all just an obvious ploy to toy with the viewer's emotions.
Also there are some really ridiculous subplots in this movie. There's one involving Gyllenhaal and company getting medicine from a boat for Rossum character and when getting said medicine they are attacked by rabid CGI wolves. Upon fighting off the wolves and escaping a wave of blistering cold, the reason for them doing so is never mentioned again, which makes it obvious how unnecessary it was in the first place. Also The subplot with Ian Holm at the British weather station is conveniently forgotten. There also seems to be little point to the Los Angeles twister sequence, since the city has absolutely no importance to the story and it makes little sense once it's established that its well into the weather "safe zone".
Now lets get to the ending where we have most of the characters and the government types throughout the movie bitch and moan how there’s nothing they can do to prevent this disaster, so when the mother nature comes and goes, it's very anti-climatic. There are no real heroes in the movie and trying to create a happy ending from the fact that a few people survived in a city of millions is stupid.
When I first saw the trailer for this movie I was really blown away, but now after witnessing the full movie from beginning to end all I can say is that it was a big disappointment as it felt more like a bad tv movie then THE disaster movie to end all disaster movies that many people made it out to be.
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