Spare yourself the pain

Rating: 2/10 (24 April 2010)

Apparently, when the next end of the world comes, they will build an arc and save all the bad actors, every Hollywood action movie cliché ever, a few very stressed giraffes and elephants, and a kid called Noah, just in case you didn't know what story Hollywood is copying this time.
Almost from the start the movie has so many ridiculous 'saved by the skin of your teeth' moments that they get old very soon.
Most of the comic relief moments added to stop some of us from falling asleep were poor, with the exception of Woody Harrelson, whose more than reasonable performance lifted his scenes from the mediocrity of the rest of the film.
Apparently now that Dakota Fanning has grown up there are no decent child actors left. Either that or they were casted by lottery.
All the supposed graphic glory of the CGI is lost when buildings purposefully fall in slow motion while a plane moves between them as a normal pace, or when cracks only ever appear in convenient places, like just behind the car the protagonists are in. This happens, not in one, but several scenes, and it borders on plain stupidity.
All in all, a very poor movie.