A Roller coaster ride of snow, water & CGI

Rating: 8/10 (5 June 2004)

****MINOR SPOILERS*****
We went to see this both with different expectations and both came away with different feelings about the movie. I thought it was great, lots of action, lots of fun, very enjoyable. I, as I always do, suspended my disbelief, as one has to do when watching a disaster movie (take the core as an example) and as such had no trouble enjoying the snap frozen people, the multistory wave overtaking New York. And as such I also excepted the ending.
My partner came out wanting more out of the ending, expecting some great 'we're human, lets fix the problem, isn't there a bomb or a mad scientist we can throw at the problem'. But alas it wasn't so. When it comes down to it, you can't beat Nature. I have heard lots of complaints about the computer graphics and the extreme use of them in this movie, personally it didn't bother me a bit, after all I don't know of any Mayor of New York that will let you flood the city just for the sake of a movie. All in all, I enjoyed it, it was fun, fast paced and a good couple of hours of movie release. Will it win any Oscars? Not a chance, but it's still worth the $13.50 for the ticket (yes, thats what we pay for a ticket here in Australia!)