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Rating: 6/10 (23 November 2014)

Professor Jack Hall discovers that due to global warming, the polar ice caps are melting, which is lowering ocean temperatures. This triggers a massive climate shift which causes many natural disasters and eventually a new ice age.
Everyone he warned realises this too late, and as they try to evacuate to the warmer south, for half of the northern USA, and Canada, it's already too cold to go outside.
Meanwhile, Jack's son, Sam, is in Manhattan on a trip with some friends. Jack heads north to try and rescue his son, but the cold is a powerful adversary....
Its round three with Emmerich destroying the Big Apple, but this time it's not Aliens or Godzilla, its a bit of a chill, preceded with a tsunami, and a few Twisters.
And as you'd expect,the film is all about the spectacle, rather than narrative and character development, and the film tells its story in a three tier way.
The first part is all your favourite actors from around the world spouting out all the Basil Exposition, until we see what they were all on about, and that's part two (with added CG wolves), and the third part is Quaid and Co searching for his son.
Its perfunctory stuff, you know all the main characters are going to survive, so all Gyllenhaal has to worry about is if that other guy will stop chatting up Rossum.
Quaid is as reliable as ever, and he can do the best concerned parent look ever, but when a film features frost chasing people, you have to take the film with a huge pinch of salt.