An Apocalyptic Movie Which Does Justice

Rating: 10/10 (28 May 2004)

The Day After Tomorrow, while drenched with some of the richest special effects seen since The Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, and Star Wars, is rich in both character depth and plot quality. It is easy to be awed by the movie magic but one must be careful not to overlook the important message imbued within the movie. The political importance of the concern with global warning is an undertone throughout the entire film (in some scenes it is more prevalent) but it does not take away from the grand scope of The Day After Tomorrow. Not since Stephen King's, "The Stand" has a movie of global disaster done the genre justice. Movies such as "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon" fall far short in their attempts to lure the audience in with the promise of a cataclysmic event, only to find that the heroes come through in the eleventh hour to save the world from dire calamity! In The Day After Tomorrow, the heroes do not save the day for everyone in the world, or, more specifically, in the Northern Hemisphere. While there is a bit of stark heroism intertwined with the plot, it is not so trite as to be tacky. The Day After Tomorrow is WELL worth the wait and should serve as a benchmark for future disaster movies to come.