Hey! It's a disaster movie! What did you expect?

Rating: 7/10 (30 May 2004)

Some people is saying that this film is ridiculous from a scientific point of view. My God! What do you expect from this kind of movies? A Nobel Prize in Physics for the director?
I've seen worst things in other movies that hold the category of "classics" for the same audience: traveling light year distances in hours or minutes, listening explosions and ship engines in outer space, to develop a virus for an alien computer in 4 hours, predicting that an earthquake will strike LA "...tomorrow at 12 o'clock...", and the list continues...
The truth is that this movie is just another disaster movie, better than many others in this genre (Twister, Deep Impact, Godzilla, The Core, Meteor...). It's not competing for the "Best Movie", but it wasn't intended to do so. Its target is just to entertain the audience, and Emmerich achieves it with great special effects and a good combination of drama, action and suspense. In addition, he seizes the opportunity to give some valuable messages to the public.
If you don't think too much about the science behind the events portrayed, you will enjoy the film.
7 (out of 10).