It's Cold Outside!

Rating: 5/10 (16 March 2006)

When anyone begins to talk about a contemporary special effects film, he needs to start out with the fact that if you throw enough money at something, it will look impressive. What makes it a good movie is plausibility. Are the characters possible? Is the situation possible? Are there things that just don't work. The stuff that happened in "Independence Day" is happening again. It's not aliens; it's us. We have opened the Pandora's box and let out all the evils with our radiation, our ozone layers, our whatever. So all of a sudden, the world is pretty much ending. There are so many remarkable things that come to pass, but the main one is that there are people who seem to understand everything that happens; they are experts on uncertainty. Give me a break. If things were as bad as this, the shock wave would be way too much to handle in such a short time. The only people who would survive would do so because of being lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. I was astonished by people running down streets being chased by a wave of cold. Holed up in the big public library, burning books and furniture to keep the temperature up. It's just too much. The rescues are too unbelievable because they call for too much knowledge to pull off. It was a visually exciting film. If you are willing to suspend a ton of disbelief, you could get caught up in it. I never did.