Without doubt one of the finest catastrophe movies

Rating: 6/10 (23 October 2004)

spoilers. THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW is very brutal and very frightening in ways. Movies having the subject catastrophe captured its own genre because it often had it totally own mood and excitement.
THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW focuses a lot on the matter of ice age. Jack Gyllenhall and Dennis Quaid plays the two main characters and from the movie's beginning it truly is a surprisingly good ride. Although it's got its typical aspects, it really keeps the drama so fine with its amazing special effects. The entertainment factor is top-notch all the way, from the "something's wrong" in the beginning, "let's pray" just before it starts off, "shit!" when it does and "I love you" in the end, the movie is certainly much better than the usual catastrophe movie. Armageddon, SUDDEN IMPACT and those movies are all fun to watch when the main event happens, but that's really they've got to offer. THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW gives us fine characters, charming love between people and a really typical, but strong brotherhood.
As New York City is layed under by a huge wave of water, it all freezes and turns to ice cold snow. The few people trying to find medicine for a girl and some food, gets to meet some angry and furious wolves. Although these are animated (why? Sometimes that is) they're really some of the movies best sequences. Being hunted by on wolves in a weird looking hospital is really dramatic. And everything goes pretty good in this movie (although you can't say that), the people we follow survives and it's a sort of happy ending, although it really isn't in the same time. Zooming away from the Earth we see that all of USA, parts of Mid-America, Europe and Asia is totally covered in snow white landscapes and the sky is totally clear. The birth of a new ice age, although it's choosy and warm in the South.
The White House is off course represented by a typical American president, his helpers and a lot of pure emotions. Although I didn't find this movie scary, it was a jolly good entertaining and satisfying movie in its scale. Delivering extreme tornados, insane freezes, huge waves, love and The Statue Of Liberty covered in snow. STARS: 4-3/5