Not much to recommend

Rating: 7/10 (29 May 2004)

If you've seen any disaster movie, I don't reckon you should bother forking out too much money to see this one. It doesn't offer much in the way of innovation.
There are some great disaster scenes - a gang of tornados terrorising Los Angeles, helicopters freezing in mid air, monster hailstones in Tokyo and the signature tsunami hitting New York. All these are very entertaining, and enough to keep you watching.
Which is very fortunate, because the rest of the plot has almost nothing of interest. You might bide your time between the action scenes by counting the disaster movie cliches in the storyline. There has to be at least a dozen.

Another way to make it more fun would be to repeat some of the lines of dialogue and try to make them sound realistic. It's probably imposssible, but it at least provides a mental challenge - something the director obviously tried to prevent at all costs.