Plain terrible

Rating: 3/10 (1 June 2006)

(some spoilers may be ahead) For a movie that's listed #39th in the international box office (at time of writing), I thought this movie was plain terrible. It started off with an exciting storyline, but nothing in this movie lived up to it. The worst part was the acting and clichéd moments. The part where Dennis Quaid was trying to save his friend from falling through the ice, it was too dam cheesy, total lack of creativity, too predictable, poor attempt to create drama. This movie tries too hard to be an movie of epic proportions, but it never came close. The focus on the movie should have been lots of mother nature disasters happening all over the world. But too much time was wasted on the characters relationships, the unnecessary dragged out dramas. It's just that these sort of movies you couldn't care less about them, you paid to see earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, stuff like that. I guess we did get a fair chunk of it, but I guess I wasn't satisfied.
Good parts of the movie? Not a lot, it had a cute girl in it. That Jake Gayenhael had a wee little love interest in her, I liked that part.
Special effects? Well I'll admit they were pretty good. Cool tidal wave effects, cool tornado effects too. Would have like to have seen more buildings and stuff get blown away, but hey you gotta stick to your CGI budget these days.
Overall its an OK movie to waste your time on, but its not something you'd go into expecting excellent things out of.