Entertaining movie...bad character writing though (contains spoilers!)

Rating: 7/10 (13 November 2009)

The movie was pretty entertaining until the last half an hour or so.
It was totally unnecessary for Gordon to die. I was pretty mad when it happened...ruined the movie for me quite a bit. I mean...the kids loved him, his girlfriend loved him, he saved John Cusack's character and his (ex-)family 3 times while flying the planes (even a AN-225...while he was only familiar with one-engined planes :) ). He was a fun character and should have ended up with the kids and girlfriend. Maybe John Cusack's character could have ended up with the Russian girl.
Other characters that didn't have to die...the Russian girl. The frickin' dog survived it again...boehoe :(
That big Russian guy. It was such a strange character...he seemed like a good guy...had a couple of funny scenes...and than suddenly he turned bad for a while...ah, stupid.
Damn you Mr. Emmerich for all of this bad writing...
Nonetheless...the effects were awesome and Woody Harrelson rocked :)