Visual Aside, This Movie Stinks

Rating: 2/10 (30 May 2004)

The story of a sudden change in the weather that brings an over night ice age is one of the dullest films in the past few years. If it weren't for the spectacular visuals this movie would sink to the "never to be remembered" pile faster than the winds change in this story. Worse is the fact that many of FX shots seem to have been cribbed from many other, better, films.
Emmerich is, at his heart, a B-movie director. If you look at the films he's made they have all been glorified b-movies. What made them work was great characters that you could care about. The trouble here the characters are all one note and even the great leads can't work miracles with a script that simply calls for one emotion from most of them. You quickly learn not to care and you quickly lapse into boredom.
I will not even get into the science which is so much a joke that anyone with a brain can't suspend disbelief.(Give me The Core any day)
Unless you really feel the need to pay 10 bucks to see this on the big screen (the visuals are at best a third of the running time) stay home and wait for video....or cable.