Expecting a good story.......but got leftist tripe !

Rating: Null/10 (30 October 2004)

I had great hopes in this film as I am particularly interested in meteorology, weather systems and satellite photos myself ! I found the film watcheable but the story line really was weak. Not enough character development. I was expecting something emotional like between the characters in "Deep Impact", but I found it was very difficult to get involved with the characters of this film. Even Independence Day was more emotional than this.
Meteorologically, the synoptic charts shown seemed quite implausible and the developments would never be so rapid on such a large scale !! The special effects were numerous but appeared synthetic and artificial even more so that Independence Day - seemed a shame as I'm sure they could have done better without a less extreme but more plausible weather scenario plus a bit more character development.
Also it should be stated that for many millions of years there have been warm-ups and ice ages in the climate. Man has a disease at the end of the 20th/beginning 21st century and that each time there is a disaster in nature, fellow human beings must be blamed. Not nature itself, or God, or the solar system, but fellow human beings. What is called a partisan approach. This is totally stupid of course but it persists today in all walks of life, in Western Europe and the USA at least ( if a man falls over a cliff edge, its not his fault but the fault of the local mayor of the area for not having put a fence in the area to stop the man from falling over - just an example to illustrate this attitude !!).
The film then seeks to "put blame" on USA and developed countries for warming up the atmosphere and then seeking refuge in warmer climes because their countries have become too cold !! It's logically unsound and smells of leftist/liberal/ecological ( all 3 words designate the same loonies who propound these ideas ) propaganda.
I would have preferred no propaganda, less special effects, a more sound and plausible meteo dilemma, and above all much more emotional character developments ( bonds and emotions between the characters ). Basically the film left me "cold" in all senses of the world.........