Harmless Fun

Rating: Null/10 (25 November 2004)

I had read reviews of the day after tomorrow some to its praise and others not, so when I spotted the video of it when out shopping decided to give it a look. My overall impression of the movie was that it was harmless fun to watch. I did not finish the movie feeling that 2 hours of my life had been stolen from me yet I felt I wanted to see more. The special affects were no less than astonishing in my view yet this is not the movie to watch if you want a deep and meaningful storyline and characters interesting to watch. As well as the story lacking in detail in lacked in my view any sense. It was hard to believe and follow that at the start of the movie the main character [Jack Hall the climatologist] was predicting the affects of global warming to be seen in hundreds of years and therefore urging the US Government to act, yet by the end of the movie had reduced his prediction to a matter of hours. However one small redeeming factor of this was the fact of seeing a trade mark disaster movie dog. The one dog that survives when millions of civilians die. The slight attempt at romance fell a little short but any movie containing Jake Gyllenhaal cant be too much of a disaster. Overall I would give this film an 8 out of 10. Another good watchable disaster movie.