The Day After Tomorrow

Rating: 4/10 (28 January 2007)

The first third of the movie features some actually gripping scenes. The special effects are definitely astounding, the tornados or the big wave flooding New York. The problem with this film lies in the screenplay written by director Roland Emmerich and Jeffrey Nachmanoff. Nobody expects an exceptional character development in a catastrophe movie like this. That's due to the unofficial rules of blockbusters, where producers seem to be in agreement: The dumber, the better. But the characters here are written so one-dimensional, it's literally an attack on every thinking man's and woman's intelligence. After the imminent threat for the people in the library caused by the flood is passed away, absolutely harebrained situations are introduced to put the characters in danger (look e.g.: wolves, blood poisoning). Further clichés (or rather stupidities): oh so bad vice president, good president leaving the white house as last person, noble scientists, ; but as I said, the first third is at least pretty much fun (but please don't use this film for a discussion about climate problems, this would be an insult).