Awful!

Rating: 3/10 (13 October 2004)

OK, the visuals were great, but then again, with CGI technology what it is today, that's no longer much of a bragging point. The rest was purely awful. This movie is nothing if not an endless series of clichés ripped off from just about every disaster movie ever made, from "The Poseidon Adventure" to "Earthquake" and "Twister". The only thing missing were the dinosaurs from the Jurassic Park films, but I guess they would have frozen to death in the new "Ice Age". At least with "Independence Day" the Producer/Director Roland Emmerich never tried to insult the audience's intelligence by presenting that film as anything other than big budget summertime brain candy.
3/10