So wrong, on so many levels...

Rating: Null/10 (16 April 2012)

Let us start with the basic idea, here: who gets to live? One average American family and a big bunch of FILTHY RICH PEOPLE WHO PAID THE TICKET!!!! Yes, you heard it right! For once, the message is clear: you got the money, you get to be saved! I found it so damn HILARIOUS when Cusak started his monologue about 'saving the innocents', as if he was actually talking about poor people who got randomly selected to carry on the human legacy, like in 'Deep Impact'. NO! These are RICH GUYS who paid for the privilege of being saved, like 1st class Titanic passengers who got to climb on the lifeboats and leaving the others to drown!!! Well, at least for once Emmerich was honest: he hates the poor guys, world will be better without them.
Ad now for the science... Well, the most notable monstrosity being the fact that the world is...whoops, dead, and there should be no happy ending (complete with corny faux social message of Africa being the new fatherland for the rich white guys). Do you think I am overreacting? Think again. Think 'volcano'. Now think ALL VOLCANOES. And I mean EVERY SINGLE EFFING VOLCANO IN THE WORLD. Campi Flegrei, Yellowstone, Vesuvio, Hawaii, Japan, Island... All the places from which lava could spill cracked open in the most violent eruptions you can think. Like, Krakatoa x 1,000 in one day. now think about the sheer amount of greenhouse gases and dust projected into the atmosphere. And you'll have HALF an idea of what happens to the global ecosystem when the atmosphere is saturated in the worst nuclear winter since the dinosaur-killer asteroid. Congratulations, you had a nice cruise and you saved your butt...and you also inherited a world where it will take DECADES just for the ice age to stop and plants to start grow again (oh, yes, any useful infrastructure useful to rebuild civilization was annihilated in the geological upheaval). Cannibalism and savagery, anyone?