Who thought up this mess?

Rating: 8/10 (25 May 2004)

While reading reviews today, I found a piece by Patrick J. Michaels on USA Today. The author is a scientist. Of course he rips apart this trashy movie, scene by scene, he pointed out the "movie" was done from a book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber.
Alarm bells rang in my head. Art Bell, the king of the lunatic left UFO crowd.
Now the movie makes sense to me...
Is this the best source of material for a big budget movie? This is highly suspect. The movie will fail in the box office and the backers will lose their money.
Hollywood is really in a bind to rely on this kind of source material.