A peek into the window to extinction

Rating: Null/10 (31 May 2004)

The Day After Tomorrow was never meant to be a movie of exceptional acting or a thick and tense plot. Instead, Emmerich uses computer technology to bring to life Nature's fury if it should loose its patience against us. The movie seemed slightly stupid since a climate change of such magnitude is simply impossible in a matter of days, but the audience seemed to forgive it (or they don't know). The best part of movie is the way Emmerich builds the tension before the catastrophe strikes. The movie also captures well mankind's inevitable helplessness if faced with such a situation. Emmerich's conscious efforts to keep heroics (like nuke armed planes blasting away bombs in the eye of the storm to divert it away from Earth:)) out of the movie adds a significant touch of reality.
There was no overdose of effects - seemed Emmerich has consciously tried to keep it low and inoffensive. The effects, as many other reviews have mentioned, are simply awesome. The tsunami that sweeps across NY is alone worth your ticket.
There seemed to be a dip in narration somewhere in the middle, with the focus shifting to the characters. Well, since the focus of the entire movie was on Nature gone wild, there was little room for character development. The sub-plots were just thick enough to allow a feeble attempt at it.
All said, DAT is a movie worth spending an evening on. Few of messages the movie was trying to convey were political, but they were subtle, not strong. There was a feeling that the movie didn't use the powerful medium of cinema to ram the message that our indifference to Nature can be catastrophic, but a lot has been already said and written about it. And Emmerich, it looks like, took to showing us what will happen if we continue to be indifferent.
My rating: 6.5/10