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Rating: 1/10 (8 December 2009)

To be short, this movie was just awful. This is one of the worst movies I've seen for the past five years. OK the CGI was pretty impressive, but that didn't help the movie at all.
I won't go into all of them but this movie was one big large chain of all movie clichés you can imagine or come up with yourself. The hero was divorced, his son doesn't call him dad, his son wants to play the hero (War of the Worlds anyone?) and the hero always makes narrow escapes, not one or two times, but maybe 20 times.
Then there's the mistakes. A wave with the height of Mount Everest (which would never be possible). A bursting Yellowstone volcano which takes 7 hours to reach Washington, yet they can outrun it with a small airplane that goes like what, 200 mph? The president not going on Air Force One but instead dying with his people, noble? Yes, but plain stupid too and in the real world this would never happen. If there's one thing you need with a disaster like this it's a leader. A plain without fuel that explodes and the list goes on.....
I mean come on I know it's not that realistic and everything but there were just too many of those mistakes.
Further more, this movie was way too predictable. You could easily guess with every action or scene what was going to happen.
And you know what? That wasn't even the worst part of this movie. The worst part were the 'I will always love you' dialogues. So if you are going to rent this movie watch it with your thumb on the forward button on your remote control to skip all these scenes because there are a whole lot of them. I think from the 2.5 hours this movie takes people are crying for 1.5 hour or there is some other boring dialogue going on that nobody is interested in.
To conclude my review, I didn't care at all the world was going to end, or the people that die in this movie. I just wanted this movie to end so I could go home and burst in tears.
I've seen some terrible movies in my life, but this one goes in my top 10 list of worst movies ever seen.
Do yourself a favor, skip this one and go rent War of the Worlds which I know has a lot of flaws too but compared to this flick it's an absolute masterpiece.