Boring

Rating: 1/10 (31 May 2004)

I wasn't expecting much from this, only some mild entertainment. Yet, I was disappointed. Halfway through the movie I was checking my watch and feeling like it was never going to end...
The disaster scenes didn't seem very impressive (I guess there are only so many ways for a filmmaker to tear apart the statue of liberty and still make it noteworthy), and I really didn't care much for the characters. Even the confrontation between the noble scientist-hero and the stupid bureaucrat Vice-President seemed too stereotypical.
On top of everything else, apparently reaching for the status of "serious movie" (without being successful) The Day After Tomorrow lacks any sense of humor.
And what were they thinking on that stupid sequence with the obvious cgi wolves - how lame was that?
Perhaps Emmerich's work is suffering with the absence of old partner Dean Devlin.
ID4 was certainly not very brilliant, but at least was fun. And Stargate (an incomprehensibly underrated movie) had a really interesting premise. But then again, the idea for that wasn't really Emmerich's...