Great popcorn entertainment...

Rating: 7/10 (13 November 2009)

So, where should I start? If you looking for great character development, brilliant acting or fantastic dialogs, this movie is not for you. Also the plot is a bit too simple to be enjoyed by a thinking mind and the characters pretty one dimensional, directly borrowed from many worn out disaster flicks. Scene after scene occurs where the director wants to have these emotionally-charged scenes where you're affected but, because there's no foundation, so you really don't care. The only noteworthy performance is that from Chiwetel Ejiofor as Adrian Helmsley.
But where this movie does score is the jaw dropping unprecedented scale of destruction that you see unfolding before your very eyes. The computer graphics are awesome and so is the direction. The cinematography is near perfect. The film has a 2hr38 min runtime but it flies by as director goes on destroying one city after another. Earthquakes tearing apart freeways or huge tidal swallowing entire cities has never been shot better. As the end credits roll you can't help but ask yourselves a question? In Godzilla he destroyed NYC, in Independence day a lot more cities, in TDAT the northern hemisphere and now the entire World. So what next does Mr. Emmerich have in store for us? Unlike Day after tomorrow where the subplots were just contributing to runtime, while being sappy, idiotic and totally unconnected, here they serve its purpose quite well.
So get set for the ride of your life and sit back any enjoy as Emmerich has fun destroying our world once again.