War of the Worlds meets The Day After Tomorrow!

Rating: 2/10 (28 November 2009)

Without the aliens, of course. I guess I don't need to explain why I think the movie is similar to The Day After tomorrow (Hell, its even by the same director). But, why War of the Worlds? The whole concept of a family trying to escape the doom and destruction and get aboard a ship that will save humanity. Sound Familiar?
Overall, the movie is laden with a lot of visual effects. Too many I think but overall not bad. Now, if you consider the physics of it, that's a whole other story. I don't think even half of those spectacular shots that are shown would happen that way in reality.
Story wise, I felt it was too weak. I just couldn't feel for the characters or anyone for that matter. I mean c'mon, humanity was about to end and I couldn't sympathize with any humans. Its mainly because the movie just didn't give enough time to develop any characters. Most of the movie is just special effects. But, there is also another reason why I couldn't sympathize. And that is due to the inherent story itself where all these important people and the protagonist's family are trying to get to this ship while millions of people out there die. They only start showing some sympathy towards the end, and that too, to those people who were chosen to be on the ship but for some reason couldn't. What about the millions who died and who were never even given a chance to save themselves?
And the end...Oh the water's receding, the tsunamis weren't as bad as we thought, Africa seems to have risen. How convenient! Just living on their arcs, sailing away around the earth hoping for things to get better would have been a realistic ending for this movie. But, then again, how realistic was the movie anyway!