Failed in its ham-handed attempt at relevance

Rating: Null/10 (24 June 2004)

Emmerich must have hoped he'd be the "big budget disaster" answer to "Farenheit-9/11", unfortunately, he blew it because he let the special effects out-pace science and the politics out-pace the story. I knew this failed when I heard Mark Moran on Air America's "Morning Sedition" talk about how much he hated it. He kinda gave it away that the reason was it let the "Dick Cheney" character "off-the-hook" for his "evil, anti-environmental ways" at the end.
Fun to watch, but as bash-you-over-the-head with message as a tidal surge up Broadway.
I wonder if a second "global warming" flick will be produced, if President Bush is re-elected...or if, like homelessness when Bill Clinton was elected, it will amazingly 'disappear' from the Hollywood radar if Kerry becomes President.