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Rating: 1/10 (22 April 2007)

I can't comment on the ending of this film because I was forced to switch off after about an hour or so of over-the-top CGI and overwrought plotting.
"The Day After Tomorrow" was trumpeted as Hollywood's first Carbon Neutral movie. Unfortunately, it's also Talent Neutral. Roland Emmerich has some good films in his bio, but this is not one of them. The film's grand scale is what lets it down, reducing the possible effects of a global super-storm to popcorn movie levels. The big set-piece destruction scenes of LA and New York are obviously rendered by guys sat in front of PCs in air-conditioned offices. They are therefore even less realistic than the destruction of a plaster and balsa wood Tokyo by a guy in a rubber lizard suit.
Oh yes, "TDAT" harks back to another Emmerich clunker, "Godzilla". Despite the director's ability to elicit good performances from his human actors, Emmerich has yet to learn that less is more when it comes to special effects.