Nice effects, long story

Rating: 6/10 (27 May 2004)

As another Emmerich movie about a disaster, it started slow with the "dramatic" iceing off big parts of northern parts of the Earth. For some reason the south pole is not getting more icy.
The effects are nice, even some animals are computer animated. But after a while you ask yourself what the story really is about. Half of the mankind will die by this accident, so why do we watch this with sentences like "What do you want to do with an polar kit in New York ?" - "I will go there".
Afterall it's a nice simulation with a long drawn-out family story about rescue within a new ice age.