the worst film yet from Roland Emmerich

Rating: 1/10 (22 November 2009)

Independence Day was a bad film, The Day After Tomorrow was a terrible film, but this is exponentially worse than either. It's almost like a bad remake of The Day After Tomorrow, in fact. Just like The Day After Tomorrow had a chase scene involving "the cold", this has a chase scene involving "the crack". Just like The Day After Tomorrow had tidal waves bringing ships in-land, so does this film. Just like The Day After Tomorrow had a hero dad trying to get from point A to point B to rescue his children, so does this film. You can't blame the cast, and you can't blame the script. The blame for what's wrong with this film lies squarely at Roland Emmerich's feet. When will the producers realise that Emmerich's films are not box office hits because he's a good director, but merely because of the subject matter and the CGI budget. It doesn't have to be him that directs the film. They could pick a decent director and have the same success - perhaps with more potential for sequels. If anything, I would imagine this film will be the last straw for anyone as far as actually paying to sit in a cinema through this kind of complete and utter drivel. We like big budget special effects films, that's why we go, but if he's not going to improve in the areas he's lacking in, then I'm really going to stop paying to watch it. I'll watch it on a media where I can fast forward to the CGI. A really, really, really, really bad film. And the CGI ain't that hot either.