It is a disaster movie, not a disaster of a movie.

Rating: 6/10 (1 July 2013)

I got this one as a candidate for bad movie night because of some of the reviews. It won't be at bad movie night. Yes, there are technical issues. Yes, it gets preachy. Yes, some of it is quite predictable. The performances were decent except maybe for the supposedly teenage son of our hero who looks like he's ten years older than his teenage love interest (it's actually 6 and Rossum did look her young age). In all fairness, the writing was probably far more to blame for the awkward predictability than Gyllenhaal himself. Although, there is not a lot to the plot, it is entertaining enough overall that it can put my disbelief on the back burner. I have seen disaster movies going back as far as Poseidon Adventure. This one is actually pretty good for this genre, however, I am rating it based on movies in general.