15-minute version of trailer + feature-lenght boredom

Rating: 8/10 (1 June 2004)

I would've preferred to watch wall-to-wall disaster footage with the sound off, than sit through the silly dialogue I had to endure, in hopes of spectacular cataclysmic finale. I thought the "bang" the film started with only portended the best - if you will - was yet to come. Instead, we get a whimper of an end of unrealized potential, not unlike Emmerich's ID4, which went down hill into an anti-climax following the leveling of NYC. On the positive side, the state-of-the-art special effects were fantastic. I only wish there were more spectacle and less cardboard characters with inane dialogue. Maybe someday Roland Emmerich will replace Irwin Allen as the new Master of disaster.