Not bad but certainly not exceptional

Rating: 6/10 (26 February 2010)

The main thing which attracted me (a SF addict) to this movie was the prospect of seeing the Earth crack open BIG-TIME like a nut, as depicted in Greg Bear's novel "The Forge Of God", the entire surface of the planet ultimately turning molten with only those escaping to space surviving.
As usual I was misguided - movies which literally depict the wholesale destruction of Planet Earth probably do not go down too well with movie studios or audiences - and instead was treated to some severe fracturing of the Earth's crust, much worse than any earthquake to date I concede, but not at all like what I envisaged.
Certainly the special effects depicting the above were first rate. The overall story was reasonable though nothing especially memorable. What did get me though was the number of narrow escapes from being crushed by collapsing massive structures or colliding therewith, surely defying the laws of statistics and probably physics. This spoilt the movie for me as they made it impossible to ignore the fact that one was simply watching CGI and virtual happenings within a computer, completely divorced from reality.
Anyway another SF yarn for the collection 6/10 (at best)