ILM did a nice job over here

Rating: 5/10 (31 May 2004)

The film opens with a shot flying over water with icebergs. The starting-credits hovered above the water and casted shadow and reflection into it. We discussed that this was nicely done, but a little bit later we figured we were fooled and all the water and icebergs must have been cgi. Great job ILM, I'm not that easily fooled when it comes to cgi, but I completely fell for this one. There is only one reason to watch this movie: special effects. The story just sucks. And tho the acting is OK (I love that Donnie Darko kid), it just doesn't make up for the crappy standard story here. And a bit to many "news"-shots as a storyteller; very lame and I think there should have been put a bit more imagination into this aspect, for it is used to often.