Good movie, bad science

Rating: 5/10 (26 November 2014)

First, the movie as a whole. Well, the characters were okay, Dennis Quaid gave a great performance and Jake Gyllenhaal did well, too. The writing was okay, the effects were very good, and the execution was pretty good. Some complaints with these things are Emmy Rossum's acting, which was not good, how clichéd some of the dialogue was, I mean, "Save as many as you can" is totally an original line, and a certain continuity error was glaring (the Earth isn't in the whole polar vortex even though Jack says that it will happen in "7-10 days"). Now, my big problem with the movie, the science. Call it nitpicking, but, being a science buff, it prevented me from giving the movie a nine. For one, climate change takes place over decades at least, not days. Also, if the polar vortex hits New York and drops the temperature by 10 degrees a second and considering that it is less than about 15 degrees at least, it should be absolute zero in less than a minute (which is -459.67 degrees F), not to mention they outrun it, yeah, no.