Excellent

Rating: 8/10 (29 March 2006)

Direction: I'd say the Roland Emmerich ("the people's director") style has left people gaping for air. The scenes are flatly - perplexing. In every bit of film you will find the hard work and the artistic ( sculptor and painter) background of Emmerich.So.. I'd say he did a good job -9/10
Story:
Inspite of the dead theme of the movie ( Global warming - dead cold theme of a movie) Emmerich and Nachmanoff gave a dramatic drift by introducing emotion ( Jason Evans: What's going to happen to us? Jack Hall: What do you mean? Jason Evans: I mean "us"? Civilization? Everyone? Jack Hall: Mankind survived the last ice age. We're certainly capable of surviving this one. The only question is, will we be able to learn from our mistakes? ) and Family tensions ( Sam putting his trust in his always-late-and-irritating dad and Jack leaving everything to enter the abyss of snow to save his son) Political aspects - which are always present in Emmerich films ( president dies,Americans take refuge in Mexico , Hospitality of the third world , Vice-president's extremely political out-look etc...). In this movie too like all Emmerich films the Shakespere principle of subplots for realism is used. Good story -7/10
Acting:
Jake Gyllenhall was a good actor and ha deservedly won the best international actor award. Dennis Quaid acted well too. Good acting -8/10
Music:
Herald Kloser's music was excellent and it is still stuck in my head Music - 8/10
Casting:
April Webster did a good job selecting actors - 6/10
Technical aspects:
The film was technically brilliant. Everything looks, sounds and feels real. -10/10
My rating:
The above points give the movie 7.894/10