Disaster

Rating: 6/10 (21 July 2009)

Many had put Roland Emmerich in a corner. After quite a few event movies, he was being called "US-friendly". Not in a good sense. While you could argue about that description of his, he himself tried and went another route. He made "The Day after tomorrow", which is anything but American friendly.
Nor could you call it an "Event movie" per se. It's more a Disaster movie in the fine tradition of the 70s. Of course digitally enhanced and looking "awfully" (no pun intended) great, this is supposed to be a warning shot. And as it seems, Mr. Emmerich seems to like the Disaster idea, as his new movie choice shows -> 2012! We'll see what that's all about, until then we can watch this movie, which is technically perfect and has the acting chops of Dennis Quaid in it, but still lacks the emotion and the heart of other disaster movies.