Inspiring

Rating: 8/10 (13 November 2005)

I have rated this film 8/10 because I enjoyed it. Reading some of the dreadful comments on here about a movie makes me think that some people really did misunderstand its intention.
If you make a film that is too hard hitting and intelligent, you go way over the majority of viewer's heads. Not everyone understands the way the world works and the way our climate system is affected by our presence on this planet.
The special effects are awesome, thats a big part of this film and yes it is lacking in story... but what do you expect? What would you prefer to happen, the world freeze and everyone die? People need hope and ideas of change to inspire them to actually do something. This world one day will eventually feel the wrath of mother nature; We've seen a lot of it in the past year with crazy weather.
I think one of the bigger points in this film is situated at the end, where one of the astronauts says 'Hey look at that, i've never seen the air so clear' - a sign that the planet is just performing a natural clean up process and might eventually return to a 'normal' state.
If you look at the Planet Mars, there is a large amount of carbon dioxide present in the ice caps. Sure, this could be simply due to a different composition of the atmosphere and of the planet itself, or it could be pointing at the fact you would essentially 'store' a lot of the gases within the ice caps itself.
By all means I am no scientist, but from what that last bit said, it was my interpretation.
All in all, it was very entertaining if you aren't looking to be a critic and rip the film apart. The end of the day, its not a great deal of money to watch a film, and I have paid to see a lot worse!