This movie damaged my brain...I can feel it

Rating: 2/10 (10 March 2010)

How is it possible that such a cast of professionals could have put together something so completely dumb? I wasn't really expecting a great flick, but this loozer surpassed all my expectations in the opposite direction. Stupidity abounds in this disaster of a film.
Never mind that the "science" is totally absurd. Forget the fact that the hero's various cars and planes and ships and whatnot survived cataclysmic impacts. Pay no attention to the way the vehicles and buildings and such were thrown about with a level of violence that would have turned anybody in them to a thin smear of jelly on the inside. This is the kind of stuff you leave to "artistic license" and "suspension of disbelief" sorta stuff.
But what about the cell phone call that comes through even as a kilometer high wall of water is washing over the continent? Or how about the Cessna 210 with engines that breathe tons of airborne crud and still run perfectly? Or how about an end-of-the-world ship that can't start the engines because THE DOOR ISN'T CLOSED?!?
And all the heavy-handed moralism just turned my stomach. Please, please -- give us a disaster movie with self-sacrificing people who don't make such a Big Deal about it, eh? People give their lives for others, even strangers, every day. And not in end-of-the-world scenarios, either. Oy.
I rented this movie at Redbox for a buck. I wanted something to watch as my hands were busy doing some brainless work. The scenes of catastrophic destruction were pretty good, but they weren't worth the whole two and three quarters hours just for them. I hope somebody does an edit of this beater that only includes all the great explosions and destruction. I'd like to see that (along with all the other 14 year old boys, no doubt).