Excellent movie.

Rating: 5/10 (3 January 2005)

I could not have seen this film at a worst possible time. Hurricanes in the Caribbean, Tidal waves and Typhones hitting Asia, 100 km/h winds and snow hitting Atlantic Canada. This film certainly got me thinking about a few things.
The most interesting concept was its 'super-cell' sucking Tropospheric cold air down to the surface at the eye of a 'winter' hurricane - forming over land. I did some research to discover that Nor'easter's actually exist - a scaled down version of a hurricane, except it brings snow instead of rain and has a cold centre instead of a warm one (like a real hurricane). You can look it up in your yahoo search engine under Nor'easter to find out about the 'cold' or 'winter' hurricane. It also has an eye in the centre. IN fact, Atlantic Canada was hit by conditions resembling of one.
Scientifically - there is not much merit on the film, but then again they had to exagerrate a few things to make it interesting. Despite what other have said, I throughly have enjoyed this film.
The most important message within the film would be that, we are not in control of the weather. We could have the best army, the richest and strongest cities, but it is all nothing if a weather disaster strikes. In fact, it could be worst than a terrorist attack or a thermonuclear bomb if it is a really bad storm. Perhaps we would have to think twice as a society about the Kyota accord and reducing emissions after seeing this film.
What was lacking in this film is the 'supernatural', that is an element of the wrath of God, or judgement, or something to that effect, or people talking about religion. It lacked depth. It may be that many Hollywood films like to avoid the religion subject and just go to mere chance, but in this case, if the progonist prayed, or if there was a preacher talking about the judgment of God and urging people to repent, it may have taken a more controversial or convincing spin. I think in this case, a bit of religion would have really helped this film.