Would've been much better if most actors wouldn't acted terribly.

Rating: 7/10 (25 May 2010)

You can't make a real good movie by completely focusing on only one department, you have to focus on all departments (at least the important once) to make a real good movie. Thankfully in this movie's case Roland Emmerich did focus on more than one department including visual effects and screenplay but there is one important department I think Roland Emmerich didn't focus on or didn't focus enough and that department is the acting department.
Except John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Woody Harrelson and Danny Glover, actors of this movie didn't do a good job as a matter of fact many of them did a terrible job. Actors including Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton looked like that they came unprepared or they need supervision. In short only senior actors who can act good without supervision acted good in this movie.
Except Chin Han foreign actors also didn't acted good as a matter of fact actors who played Indian and European acted terribly. When your movie feature a global crisis and global effort to solve it and to make it look like real you have to feature foreign countries and foreign people. But you can't cast any foreign actor to play a foreigner, you have to cast a good foreign actor to play a foreigner, if you can't find a good foreign actor you can cast an actor from your own industry to play a foreigner with the help of some make-up. Its not even necessary to include a foreign role you can still make it look like a global effort (i.e. an American scientist working in India).
This movie has a good screenplay, visual effects are great and direction is somehow good too but acting by most actors let me down.