A tale of two halves.

Rating: 6/10 (28 May 2004)

Once again Roland Emmerich has made a film of two halves just like ID4 and God(awful)zilla. In this film the first half of the movie is great - lots of effects and drama - real edge-of-your-seat stuff and the movie is well paced.
Then New York gets whacked and the film goes downhill into I-really-couldn't-care-less territory. To me it seems like Mr.Emmerich is very good at depicting chaos and destruction of cities but seems to lack a lot of skill when it comes to involving real live, talking humans into the story.
I'm sure this film will make buckets of cash and I'm sure Mr.Emmerich will make another disaster(ous) movie again, but at least that wont be for a couple of years...phew!