...well, at least we wont cook to death!

Rating: 8/10 (13 July 2007)

Were to begin on this one? Well, as I have stated previously elsewhere, I feel that this is the third movie in an unintentional trilogy featuring, and in this order; "Armageddon", "The Core", and "The Day After Tomorrow".
It is your typical disaster/survival movie, where man is screwed no matter what and his main job is to survive...
So much in fact that the whole movie could be played and summed up in little over a half hour. However, that would not make an entertaining evening so you have to throw in subplots consisting of random CGI wolves, and an injury that is bad enough to make a squishy sound when it happens, but not bad enough where it is even acknowledged until the plot slows down enough where it suddenly becomes life threatening.
Hence enter the random CGI Wolves...
The film is basically a sensationalist view of Global Warming Propaganda. I half expected to see Al Gore surfing on the tidal waves that were about to sink New York screaming "here's your Inconvenient Truth!".
If you are careful you might even see a cheapshot taken at some Saudi Arabian officials when Dennis Quaid is giving his speech...
Every little cliché' that is out there in typical disaster/survival movies is here. From estranged spouses finding their love again, to cancer boy, to man pulling together to save the day, to the hero driving a hybrid car, to his son making it as a man, this movie has it all. And before I forget, it even has the typical "hero cop" extra who needs to take charge, and not listen to anyone cause he's the hero cop and winds up getting everyone he is leading killed.
...And since when does Mexico have a border patrol to keep all those wiley Americans out of their country?
As my wife says; "Suspend all Logic and Disbelief!"