POLITICALLY LEFT WING B-GRADE SCRIPT

Rating: 4/10 (12 May 2004)

*** Review Contain Spoilers (and a Personal Opinion) ***
There are some awesome and realistic special effects in the first half of this movie. The second half is much slower. It's as though the studio had suddenly ran out of cash for further SFX enhancement. The story and the characters were rigidly constructed. Jake Gyllenhaal lacks charisma in a pivotal role.
Sadly, this movie is nothing more than a common Hollywoodized "moral to the story" film that should rank no higher than a B-Grade TV feature. Instead of making a politically preachy film, it could have been better played as simply an entertaining action feature.
The political message this script preaches:
* USA is to be blamed because it did not adhere to the Kyoto Protocol over Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Global warming somehow brings an instant Ice Age. Climate disaster cometh. Yeah, take off your thinking caps for the duration.

* Third World Countries will save Western Nations by allowing a flood of Westerners to emigrate to their territories when an Ice Age cometh. Yeah, right.
The End. The world survives and we have learnt half a politically green lesson from Mr Emmerich.
I'm all for a safer and better environment but Mr Emmerich offered no economic solutions other than encourage mindless sociopaths who are hell-bent on creating riots and violence against police officers on duty. He should find a solution we can all work with.
I'm not American but I find majority of left-wing messages embarrassing for any audiences to have to put up with constantly.
Should you see this movie? I suppose it has great special effects. Just turn off your mind for a couple of hours. 5/10 (ratings lifted due to SFX).