Good movie until they tried for character development

Rating: 5/10 (1 October 2004)

I think that most disaster movies fail when they do not develop both the disaster and the characters at the same pace. In The Day After Tomorrow, I found the science that dominated the first half (albeit a little unrealistical) to be very interesting and I was looking forward to seeing how it would play out. About halfway through, I was very impressed. At that point, it seemed they ran out of plot lines for the disaster and had Dennis Quaid undertake a dangerous journey to try and fill time, which is about all it did. I think if they had added some more scientists to the writing team, they could have removed all the wasted character development (and I use that term loosely) and come up with a real interesting nailbiter.
B for effort.