Everything you expect; but nothing else

Rating: 2/10 (16 November 2009)

I went to see this this film for the big CGI extravaganza that it is; with just a hope that it would have a reasonable story behind it with a little bit of witty dialogue.
That is what it gave and not on bit more.
The movie is a by the numbers disaster flick. The story is on a par with a TV afternoon flick and the size and amount of plot holes it leaves you with are large enough for crumbling planets to fit through.
Close call after close call goes by for our main characters, hardly suffering a scratch let alone the cuts, broken bones and death that would of happened with the things that happen to them. No less than 3 times they manages to 'just' take off on a runway thats crumbling under the plane (stange how the ground comes apart right under the aircraft when other chunks stay intact that amount of times) and it happens twice with the only person at the controls is a guy who has only had a couple of flying lessons! Anyway they get to the boat only for some of our main cast to die off. I personally didn't feel anything when they died, due to the fact that I didn't feel I got to know enough about them to actually care and it happened so quick. It really looked like the characters had served what they needed to do and the script writers didn't know what to do with them, very poor.
I also expected to see mainly city's in the USA destroyed, but I really hoped to see a few other country's being wrecked than what they did, overall it was disappointing.
But then it didn't offend, It did as I expected, I got what I thought I wanted, but afterword's, I wanted all of the things it didn't deliver