A frozen waste of time...

Rating: 2/10 (30 May 2004)

First, does Emmerich hate NYC? He blasts us in ID4 (another stupid movie, see War of the Worlds instead), sends us that Lame Godzilla and now this. He needs to meet a NYer and get punched in the face! (Joking). This film was a stinker. Pseudo-science, a moron VP who was so obviously Dick Cheney, three good acting performances (Quaid, Tomita and Holm - who was wasted in this role) and a bunch of great SFX DON'T MAKE A GREAT FILM! The matrix sequels had great SFX and were boring as all hell. This wasn't as dull, but it was as dumb. Ice Ages do not happen in ten days. People do not freeze to death in seconds, but that's beside the point. Most of the cast seems to sleepwalk through this and the dialogue is so lame. The guy I rooted most for was the Homeless guy with the Dog. They made it, that made me pretty happy. The political sub messages I could have done without. This was just another over budgeted, understoried popcorn film. Between remakes and less than good scripts, I wonder why I even go to the movies. I will say that the SFX were spectacular, but the film wasn't. Wait for DVD or PPV.