Great Entertainment and That Is All

Rating: 8/10 (27 November 2010)

This blockbuster I looked just a year after leaving. I am one of those people who do not automatically rush to the cinema when actual any film that has become a hit. In such situation rule is that there is a disappointment because of excessive expectations, which for some reason you can not solve, no matter what the present awareness that often brings great expectations and great disappointments.
So I decided to see this film when the dust had settled long ago. My expectation was that waiting for me visually impressive film with special effects that are very hi-technology and digitality.
Scenes of disaster and collapse, falling buildings, cracking freeway, crashing cars are really well-made but too sprayed and digitized, and these scenes is missing some doses of drama. The part in which Cusack fleeing car in Pasadena while collapsing buildings fall behind it is almost comical and I had a feeling that watching a comedy, or maybe it might seem because of the frivolous and aavog Cusacks face. I think that is important, the film is as an item for fun and turn off the brain.
I got a visual treat, but I expected a little better and more elaborate story, the better the dialogues and interesting characters. It seems to me that the director wanted in the first place to offer the viewer a visual impressiveness and that everything else was just there to patch up and make a movie. Minor characters are dull and frivolous even though it is really colorful setup role, but none of them have left a deeper impression nor something which proved to be etched in your memory. I think the most disappointing role of John Cusack and Woody Harrelson was only somewhat impressive in the role of a lonely eccentric. Dialogues can sometimes be shabby, but with a lot of times aplied phrases and quotations. Also some scenes are naive and have seen and even childish and some parts of the movie I was reminded of the cartoon. Like Cusacks rescue at the last minute. Is not it already known that the main role in saving the last minute? The end is too typical, cheesy and a little pathetic with very tasteless music. So, watch this film only in the Blue Ray version because its only value in the visual sense, although there would also be able to find criticism and discontent. However, the film easily kill two and half hours time.