A better title would have been "The Day the Earth Froze", but I already think that title has been used.

Rating: 8/10 (28 May 2004)

First off, this movie was better than I was expecting. A nice disaster film with some rather good story and great special effects. Sure it is a bit unrealistic, the type of disasters shown here could not take place in our life time without massive volcanic eruptions, but hey it is a movie so it is best to watch and enjoy and not worry about the scientific facts. The cast is rather good as Dennis Quaid turns in one of his better performances. I just wish Ian Holm had a bigger part in this one. As for the effects, as I said before they were great. I also enjoyed the story although there was one unresolved plot point involving the one guy's brother in Philly. The first half of the film shows the beginnings of the super storm and the second half is more of a rescue mission over the frozen areas of the United States. The movie could have shown the effects of the storm on a few more countries as it tended to only show the United States and of course as in any disaster flick there tends to be a rather pointless subplot that never really goes anywhere...here it was a boy with cancer. All in all though I enjoyed it more than I was expecting, I was just wanting to go to the movies and it was either this or Shrek 2.