Environmental Escapism

Rating: 6/10 (7 November 2012)

The message of this movie is that climate change will lead to climate change and we need to address its implications, no matter what the cause. Of course everything is in hyper-time to allow the drama to unfold in two hours. Everything that happens is a "fantasy" in the space that things happen. This is a true "suspension of disbelief" that is a definite requirement for any chance of this having any entertainment value.
Basically it is another CGI disaster movie that delivers mass destruction on a mass scale that is always a fun, if kinda sick, thing to watch. But hey, that's what the movie machine is for on occasion, escapism. There are holes in the ozone of this plot that are glacial and the characters are stereotypical and the audience manipulation is manic. But this is not Lynch, or Tarantino, or Malick, or Burton, or Spielberg, or Welles, or Wilder, or Emmerich. Wait a minute...it is Emmerich...nuff said.