BRRR It's cold out there, but this scientifically-inaccurate movie kinda does warm my heart. I'm cool on seeing this movie, again. I like it.

Rating: 7/10 (9 November 2016)

Yes, I know, it's a corny movie, but this movie is a guilty pleasure of mine. It was entertaining. It's funny that 20th Century Fox invited a group of scientists to preview the film, to test their reactions to the science used in the film. None of the scientists was impressed with what they saw, although most conceded that the movie was enjoyable nonsense and I have to agree with them. If you turn off, your brain, it is fun enough to watch. Directed & co-writer by Roland Emmerich, the global warming plot of the disruption of the North Atlantic Ocean circulation never really made sense to begin with. Not saying, it isn't possible as I still believe global warming does happen; but the changing of climates wouldn't occur, within a window of a few weeks. Unless you count, the orbit of earth, somehow lost control of itself, and send us, across the darkness of cold deep space. Then maybe, the Earth might experience another ice age in a matter of a few days, but that's not what the film is portraying. Instead, the setup for the action packed disaster flick, felt a bit too unrealistic for the preachy force message of environmental to take shape. The film also tackles a clever satire viewpoint on immigration, with Americans escaping illegally to Mexico to avoid the storm, however, it wasn't well delivered, as the film later ruin it, by saying that the United States government negotiated permission for all American survivors to cross over into Mexico and the rest of Latin America in exchange for all Latin American financial debt being forgiven. Huh!? How is exactly would Latin American's debt to the United States and other Western countries still exist after the Northern Hemisphere has been rendered uninhabitable!? Shouldn't the Southern hemisphere been destroy, too, seeing how cities, closer to the equator like Los Angeles and New Delhi were also affect? It seems to me, that the artistic license on science is not only the only one, lost in this film, as geography took a hit. I know, at the time, there were some doubts among the production team about having a major disaster hit New York, especially after 9/11. However, it didn't stop me at the time, from enjoying the visuals of large catastrophic storms destroying cities, even if some of the effects hasn't aged well. Call me, a sicko, but seeing a city level into ruins in a film is interesting to me, in a morbid way. After all, I was a huge fan of the large amount of disasters flicks that the 1990s were producing. Sadly, the real-life effects of natural tragedies such as 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, 2005's Hurricane Katrina, 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and 2012's Hurricane Sandy might had indeed slow down my interest, in seeing these type of films, as parts of it, can be hard to watch, but those events still couldn't stop me, from checking the next new disaster porn, overtime. Even today, nearly a decade, I still can't help myself, from watching this movie, whenever it's on TV. Maybe, one of the reasons, why I like the film so much, is because the likable characters. I love the father and son relationship between Professor Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) & Sam Hall (Jake Gyllenhaal). Gyllenhaal and Quaid are the best things about this film. I like the idea of a father journeying through the endless amount of snow in an attempt to rescue his son. It was very compelling. Even the supporting characters were fine in the roles, they were given even if their acting is sub-par. However, I can do without the subplot of Jack's wife, Lucy (Sela Ward) trying to rescue a sick-kid as I found that, to be, somewhat boring, along with Professor Terry Rapson (Ian Holm) of the Hedland Climate Research Centre scenes. Still, thank god, they cut all of the subplot of actor Rick Hoffman's character, as it added very little to the plot. Even with that, another reason, why I like this film is the amazing soundtrack by composer, Harald Kloser. It was incredible. It really gave the film's some really needed, epic scope. Another reason, why I like this film is the fact that this this dumb film does have some smart and complex moments that some people might overlook as filler, such as the debate of burning books to survive and if God was going to save them. There is powerful message about irony and aphorism. Hints the title taken from a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche's book, 'the Antichrist'. Also, I love not so clever, criticism of the Bush Administration's policies with that. With that being said. It's hard to deny there is an undertone of camp that accompanies this film. It's up there with 1996's 'Independence Day' as a wonderfully enjoyable terrible movie! Definitely watch this!