When is a movie over the top? When it's so stupid it undermines itself.

Rating: 3/10 (25 January 2010)

I like a disaster movie as much as the next person, but this one is too much. The scenes involving the John Cusack character escaping from California and later Yellowstone are so absurd that suspension of disbelief is impossible. I could pick any number of things in this movie that are absurd beyond belief. Driving his limo *through* a collapsing skyscraper as it falls? Oh, come on!
For any movie to really work, you have to be able to believe what is happening on some level. But Emmerich has gone too far in the pursuit of the "Wow!" factor and the whole thing almost seems like a spoof at time.
And the sad thing is, it didn't need to be so over-the-top and it still could have worked.