Too much style too little substance

Rating: 4/10 (12 November 2009)

An effects laden extravaganza with a lame duck script serving up every movie cliché on the books. A president who gives his all and shows the common touch in his country's hour of greatest need. An evil self serving bureaucrat eventually trumped by a goody two shoes whose diatribe on humanity and compassion was vomit inducing. The estranged couple who are at one another's throats from the get go yet amazingly reunited at conclusion. The evil Soviet tycoon with detestable overweight and indulged children. Fabulous almost flawless images on a mighty scale of destruction and devastation and a sound track which nails you to your seat, but sadly way too much dialogue from one dimensional characters whose words were telegraphed an hour before they took the trouble to speak. And as for Woody Harrelson..I hope he needed the money.