shameless environmentalist tripe

Rating: 3/10 (26 October 2004)

I've been too tired at night lately to watch anything except action flicks. So I got this one after seeing some pretty cool special effects on the preview.
If your enjoyment of a movie is derived solely on special effects, this one is pretty good. Every other facet of the production is lacking. The acting is amateur and melodramatic, the plot (if you can call it that) is choppy, and the theme seems entirely centered around environmentalist politics.
The politics are especially nauseating. The opening scene depicts the fracture of an ice shelf (a common environmentalist sermon). The movie goes on to present the typical global warming doomsday scenario, except that the doomsday results are squished into a period of days rather than thousands of years. The focal point of the film becomes three "super hurricanes" that form over land and suck down huge amounts of lethally cold air from very high in the atmosphere. The final scene of the movie involves an astronaut on the space station remarking how clean the air has become, implying that "mother nature" healed herself through the power of these storms. Pleeeeease... Give me a break!
I've seen lots liberal agendas advanced in Hollywood, but this is the most blatant I've ever come across.
Get a life, Hollywood.