typical American disaster movie

Rating: 4/10 (17 November 2009)

4 and its only getting that for the special effects and the Russian girl.
The film started at 12:30 and I nearly walked out because of the cheese at 1:45. As with most disaster films that threaten the world, this one is right out of the rule book and only happens in America. Turns out the Mayan civilisation many years ago worked out the world would end because of a solar flare. The same solar flare disrupts the workings of the earth and the crust moves about a bit. Great special effects. Typical divorced family unit where the father forgets everything and they get back together at the end when the mothers boyfriend is killed (wont say how as it will spoil it) So with the earth now moving about a bit, the north pole ends up where I wonder? oh yeah Wisconsin right slap bang in the middle of the US as these things only happen to the US. Getting to the bit where I nearly left; the president sits down in the white house (or whats left of it) saying "my fellow Americans this is the most catastrophic event to happen to our nation" Right what about the rest of the world? Are we all lying in the sun having a smoke and a beer? I was actually expecting this after watching other of Mr Emmerich's creations and he delivered. Disaster movie, only affecting the USA, minor glimpses of the rest of the world, might end up somewhere that we don't see. If this does happen, I'm booking my holiday (vacation) on the US/Mexico border for Christmas 2012