An accomplished but Shallow film

Rating: 5/10 (21 May 2006)

Roland Emmerich. Where would modern film be without Roland Emmerich? His Independence Day was a classy action flick, a hand-crafted original in a day of cheap cash-ins. His new picture, The Day After Tomorrow, is another of Emmerich's disaster films, but fails to reach the heights of Independence Day. The Day After Tomorrow stars Dennis Quaid, as Jack Hall, and Academy Award Nominee Jake Gyllenhall as his son Sam. Jack is a climatologist, and is predicting the end of the world via a new Ice Age. Sam is Manhattan and gets caught up in the ice storm, and is confined to a small room in the library. Jack ventures across America to save his Son.
Co-Writer/Director/Co-Producer Emmerich gets his game on for the actual disaster scenes, but he falls flat when directing the limp dialogue between the supporting cast. A largely boring disaster picture, with actors at their worst.