A fantastic visual extravaganza from Roland Emmerich.

Rating: 10/10 (24 May 2004)

This movie is a total visual effect banquet, with a very similar plot like Stargate or ID4 on which the main characters face total doom with just a little shred of hope. Sci-fi fans will have a cult in the making. The only parts of the movie the really looks awful is the typical newsreel cuts from old storms events out of CNN or ABC news stock footage archives showing the same roof ripping scenes we all already seen countless of times at the Discovery Channel's million dollar storms. (Maybe they run out of money), Other than that the first hour will be like ID4, lots of jaw dropping effects leaving you very tire for the melancholic second hour of the movie, Roland Emmerich fans will have what they ask for. Fox will make lots of money and an environmental statement will be set. In the other hand conservative SUV drivers will see this like a B-Grade made for TV just to hurt the feelings of the average oil economy supporter. Anyway, I personally suggest if you the type that care about poor planet Earth's Amazon jungle go and see it, otherwise don't bother and skip it, or instead... go and check out Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 to get an eye opening view of where this world is really heading.