Full of Good visual effect but none from the characters

Rating: 8/10 (1 December 2009)

It is an amazing and awesome movie but like all movies, there's flaws.
Characters I don't really feel connected to the character in the story. All I remember is that there's disaster after disaster. Even when the main characters sit down and talk, the conversation was dull. The dialog in every stories should have large contribution to the story but in this movie, I just don't see it. It's like watching your friend talking shyly to the girl he fell in love.
Design Okay, there's one fatal flaw in the design of the arks, the windows in the bridge. If you know that the ship is facing tremendous pressure, you wouldn't install a window of glass. It will just break. That's why submarines don't have windows. If it happened in the real words, with that ship design, the first wave would have breached the window in a matter of second and the people in it will die.
Plot The fact that the main character drove a limo through the disaster and survived is unbelievable and almost impossible.
The fact that the plane(the biplane) that they use is still intact while its surrounding is not for a length the main characters needed to drive from their home to it?! Oh come on, that's just ridiculously stupid. That plane must be a damn lucky bastard.(saying this because all the plane around him is destroyed or immobilize).
The pilots, Sasha and Gordon are stupid. They are in a plane with limited fuel and heavy cargo. If Sasha truly is a pilot, he would dumped those freaking cars into the sea and they may have made it farther. But no, the writers just put in the cars so that it would contribute to the scene where they are escaping from the plane. This is called forced situation. Sasha had a chance to live if he had dumped the cargo. And they would have made it to the airport, if not, near it.
Clichés I detected many cliché during those two hours of watching it. Here's the list Crazy person with a doomsday board, is tolerated but a bit old
The Charlie, yet another crazy person looking into the conspiracy, is a dry.
Oh, main character who is divorced, teeeet, been used to many time
The Genesis(the cruise ship) being hit by a rogue wave, that's a bit like Poseidon, isn't it? it's a rip off.
There's still other clichés but I forgot it. Later when I watch it again, I'll draft out a new list of cliché in that movie. For me, in a story, two cliché is fine, more than that, well, it will get my negative review
So, I praise it for the amazing visual effect but the movie is downed by the lack of character development and a few cliché, I decided to give it a mark of 8 from 10. All which contributed by the visual effect, none from the characters