Day After Tomorrow is a fast paced disaster genre movie that grips your attention.

Rating: Null/10 (22 June 2004)

If one has the intellectual capacity to suspend disbelief and enjoy science fiction, which may have some plausibility, the movie Day After Tomorrow is a gripping, action packed film. I recognize that the events have to be speeded and compacted to accommodate the pacing of a movie, so I have no quarrel with that aspect of the movie's construct. Some degree of banality creeps in with the disaster movie template of human interest scenarios(i.e. divided families, lovable dogs and drifters, teenage love, etc.). Best memorable adult line was the one about wasting "ten-year-old scotch." I had read Whitley Streiber's sci-fi book on such a climate phenomenon a couple of years ago and thought it an interesting and exciting idea. When I heard of this movie, I had a flashback to Streiber's book. I noticed near the end of the credits Streiber was noted as "suggesting" part of the general idea for the movie.