Simply awful.

Rating: 1/10 (31 March 2010)

I wish I could turn back time and not watch this movie, but sadly I can't so I'm stuck with the memory of it all. I love disaster movies, liked Independence day but god, this was terrible. Boring, cliché ridden, insulting, overblown, did I mention boring? None of the characters were of any interest to me (ooh, a divorced dad whose kids have no respect for him, never seen that before). But what really made me angry was the way the movie constantly insulted the audiences intelligence, eg. the endless near miss escapes where an old camper van can outrun a superheated cloud of ash and fireballs, a light aircraft can be engulfed by the same ash cloud and emerge unscathed, and of course the biggest and heaviest cargo plane in the world, loaded with 10 or so cars, can dive nose down into a hole at the end of the runway and still have enough lift to safely make it out, weaving between collapsing buildings like it was a bird. (Sorry, but that last scene really got to me). Add dozens more improbable moments like these, and of course that nausea inducing we must retain our humanity speech near the end, and you have one BAD movie. (I'm seriously thinking of taking the DVD back to the store, saying the disc is scratched and getting my money back).