Roland Emmerich is Michael Bay's professional twin

Rating: Null/10 (16 July 2002)

When I realized that the director of this nonsense was none other than Roland Emmerich, the esteemed auteur of such grand and moving epics as Godzilla and The Patriot, well, I should have known. Here is a bold artist, a visionary, who willingly disregards the age old and respected conventions of film-making-- i.e., decent story and character development--and defiantly says, "the hell with it...all I need are a good group of sound and special effects crew and a whole lof of digitized effects, throw everything on the screen in a helter-skelter manner so as to appease the MTV-crowd, and, dammit, I've got a sure-fire blockbuster on my hands...Woohoo!"

Upon seeing this incredibly mind-numbing dross, I was reminded of another director who seems to be Emmerich's artistic and professional twin: Michael Bay. Both make movies geared towards the MTV generation, don't give a hoot what the critics think of their movies, have no clue as to what a good script or storyline should look like, and contributes, whether consciously or unconsciously, in the dumbing down of American cinema. Unbelievable.