Catastrophe's the name...

Rating: 1/10 (17 December 2009)

To be honest, I didn't exactly expect much of this film... I was counting on some spectacular visual effects and not much more. Just a mediocre production with shallow plot but with some eye candy scenes and visuals.It surprised me entirely, and not in a very good manner. This film is a mixture of every bad aspect of the Hollywood movie mainstream. The plot is shallow and numb, filled with pompositous dialogs and monologues. There is an absolute overload of clichés (broken families,filled with "american point of view" stereotypes). Acting is poor ( even Danny Glover just doesn't do the trick) and in the and you don't actually care whether the characters live or die (Actually for several moments I wished they'd all die so the movie could finally end). Did I mention that the movie lasts for nearly 3 hours? As for the visual effects - there was maybe 20-30 minutes of catastrophe scenes and 2 hours of brain-melting crap. I thought it wasn't possible to be disappointed with this movie because of my low expectations in the beginning. I was absolutely wrong. I'd say, this movie deserves the "Worst Movie of the year" award and I really don't think it's possible to make something worse till the next year. But I might be wrong as Hollywood directors keep surprising me. If you haven't seen it yet, just don't.