Great cast put on boat and sent to their demises.

Rating: 2/10 (4 April 2010)

UGH. Terrible movie.
1) Characters unbelievably weak in times of duress. ON a jet with probably a dozen cars in the belly, they opted to try to keep the cars.. at the end of the world... THey could have made it to China in back if they dumped the cars somewhere over the Pacific, and still had the audience wow effect of watching rich people's bentleys get destroyed.
2) Conflict confusion, we are not sure what the conflict in the story is. Is this a poem about a tidal wave? Or are you trying to tell a story? If you want to write a story you'll need one or MAYBE two of the three conflicts and these will need to be Major recurring themes in the plot, person vs. self, person vs. nature, person vs. person (( and then the ever popular person vs. divine occasionally crops up)). THis movie has no fully developed conflict. 3) Amanda Peet is still hot hence 2 stars. 4) Crossroads = awesome. As in the song by Bone Thugs in Harmony. They are not in this movie, nor is the plot device. the characters in this movie are somehow on different planes of existence when I am pretty sure they were "acting" right next to each other. No bond or connection is felt, most disappointingly the Amanda Peet / Cusak connection was not well developed.
5) Deus ex machina- it's too frequently used. God is selective in his acts and you can too!
I am not going to take the time to craft out this draft because frankly the movie isn't worth it.