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Rating: Null/10 (20 February 2012)

***All perfect in the movie "The Day after Tomorrow"?!***
Scientists have always warned about the effects of global warming – just imagine yourself being faced with a new ice age that threatens to destroy our civilization. This is exactly what "The Day after Tomorrow", an apocalyptic movie by Roland Emmerich in 2004, deals with. It shows how a catastrophic climate change could destroy our modern everyday lives by creating a global super-storm with hail, tornadoes, floods and by confronting the viewer with a new ice age. All these spectacular events could happen and such natural disasters can threaten humanity.
Climatologist Jack Hall forecasts a forthcoming ice age, his warning are ignored even by the government. However the catastrophe happens faster than expected and people, technology, machines and cities are overrun by ice and arctic temperatures. Millions of people die, and Jack Hall begins a struggle, he searches for his lost son who is trying to survive in a large library in Manhattan.
Emmerich's movie contains amazing special effects, already beginning with a breathtaking camera fly above the mountains towards a little base camp situated on a glacier.
Everything is perfectly mixed together: the ecological message, a very good cast of actors, family drama, action, suspense and feelings. Some viewers may claim that many aspects are too perfect but that's Hollywood, and it makes the movie an entertaining pastime, but makes also the viewer think about the importance of topics like climate change and that we are lost when nature decides to go its own way.