Tomorrow may never come.

Rating: 8/10 (1 June 2004)

Big-budget special effects. To quote the star Dennis Quaid, "this is the mother of all disaster movies". Quaid plays Professor Adrian Hall, a scientist who studies the ways weather patterns changed in the past. He comes up with a theory that the world will suffer from a new Ice Age in the next 100 years or so. But suddenly the effect of global warming brings about earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes and tidal waves forcing most of the North American population to migrated to Mexico. Around the world humanity races to southern, warmer climate trying to outrun the New Ice Age that has developed rapidly with the ignored warning from Dr. Hall.
Adding to the major peril, Hall must travel against the flow of migration and head north to New York City where his son(Jake Gyllenhaal)is wisely hold up with fellow classmates in the snow buried NYC municipal library. I really liked this movie. Making it even better is watching on a big screen in a chilled theater. Also in the cast of this dramatic Sci-Fi thriller: Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok, Jay O. Sanders and Sela Ward.
Watch the Statue of Liberty get pounded by a gigantic tidal wave and witness a waving "Old Glory" freeze solid in seconds. And then there are the ships stranded frozen in the streets of NYC. Kudos to writer/director Roland Emmerich and his F/X staff. Is it wrong to think disaster is entertainment? This is the first of the great ones of the summer '04.