I had such hopes

Rating: 3/10 (29 May 2004)

Long, Slow, Clichéd  hollywoodification of one future. It seemed to me that everybody that had done good work else where couldn't here. I have heard the Greeks loved their morality plays, where everybody in the audience knew what was going to happen before they even got there. This film may be from that tradition. The coming changes in our environment do need to be addressed. The cost of Kyoto can not be compared to the cost of loss of habitat. My main complaint is that there was not enough death. Some 213 shots. Tons of NY NY, but the rest is just maps. Obviously it's very difficult to show world wide cataclysm  but it's very easy to draw people into personal trials and tribulations.
Things I Loved: So many people doing all the wrong things. Wall of water hitting New York. Quaid being ignored by everybody. People whose only reality is financial, coming to grips with just how important other things can be.
Things I had difficulty with: Cancer boy lives. Wonderful arctic gear includes only 12ft of rope. Billions of people and animals die and we don't get to see it. Days and days and days pass and it seems like minutes. How do they get the penicillin into the love interest with no supplies or training. The Hobo's dog. Everybody in power (including the military) leaves the country and nobody thinks to go underground.