Usual Emerich stuff with some interesting details

Rating: 6/10 (1 February 2010)

Well, it was slightly better than I expected. First thing to laud: there was no New York 'attacked' in movie ! I say it because that city is almost mandatory in US (and other) disaster movies. Some more serious things: movie had a message, and I'm little surprised that no one wrote about it here. Of course, message is little shallow, but I really don't see it as bad, as whole movie is such. So, without spoiling it up, just some clues: there were some references about World (Earth, Humankind) today. About greed, rich people (countries) disregarding poor ones. Certainly that China is not chosen just randomly as place for 'ships'. Of course, there was a lot of more-less stupid, overdone scenes. Plane escape was interesting first time in Independence Day, but here almost same was repeated twice. A lot of predictable events, some cliché, etc.
Watch carefully final shot of Africa from space - middle of East part.