Probably the worst movie I have ever seen

Rating: 1/10 (23 July 2005)

I watched this movie and was speechless. Cliché and one-dimensional characters pop in and out of their scenes in this disconnected mess. It's as if the director/writer made the movie by deciding to paste together every cliché from disaster and action movies ... and then thought that by pasting these things together everything would be OK. Things happen to people but, because no character and relationship development has occurred, you not only don't care but you wonder if your brain zoned out and missed entire pieces of the story.
There are so many worn-out characters, borrowed from so many formula movies. We have the smart scientist in the antarctic who gives the standard selfless and 'save mankind' speech. There's the main scientist guy who tries to warn the politicians and, of course, has not paid attention to his son and the disaster now proves his mettle. We have the standard low-caste society guy (homeless dude) who teaches people when the disaster comes (and the standard message that we can find out what's really important and how equal we are when normal society structure is uprooted). There's the policeman who recites these horribly canned lines and takes the authority, etc. etc.
Now, I can take cliché. I can even take canned lines. But in each of these characters, there's almost no development - the father ludicrously decides to trek to his son who's in NYC ... and what should be a moving moment because of the father's failures in the past becomes nothing because the failures and introspection of the father hasn't occurred. Scene after scene occurs like this -- the director wants to have these emotionally-charged scenes where you're affected but, because there's no foundation, you don't care.
And ... if the tired clichés weren't enough, we get illogic at every step. I can go with a movie and accept things that even bend reality but once the movie asks you to go with it, it also then play within the physical rules. The cold acting as if it were the blob in form of ice chasing them was ridiculous. The bureaucracy thing w/ the scientist trying to get the message out was so silly that I kept shaking my head. The dialog of some of the characters during the disaster made me realize that the writer wanted to get things across but failed to realize that it wasn't in sync with the context.
I'll stop here. A horrible waste of time.