An entertaining piece of fiction

Rating: 7/10 (19 October 2004)

I AM NOT an enviromentalist. I did enjoy this movie. I see it as a piece of SciFi... no different than the director's other notable movie... Indep Day... Aliens and Man-Induced Ice Age... sounds about right. The science here is sketchy at best... although I do not doubt that changing the warm water currents would be less than good for the world, I don't think that if it happens it will be because of my Crown Vic sedan... Mt. Pinotuba in the Phillipine let out more "greenhouse" gasses in the early 90's eruption than man has managed to scrape up in his entire existence. Couple that with the hundreds (thousands?) of volcanoes that occasionally blow their top... some regularly (Hawaii)... and I think we are gnats compared to their great outputs... but enough already. The Movie was enjoyable. The effects were effective and lent to the story. This was way better than Indep Day. Although the VP Cheney look-alike in the same job was hard to miss... the Algore-ish stand-in for the president was laughable. At least the leaders didn't fall in to smarmy, campy acting like the President in Indep Day. It was worth the popcorn needed to watch it. I gave it a solid 7.