Not Bad

Rating: 7/10 (6 June 2004)

I went in thinking how many more times can I watch New York get destroyed and still stay into the movie. Armagedon, Sudden Impact, Independence Day all took a shot at the big apple and she just keeps coming back. This movie keeps you just on this side of believable and holds you there. The CGI effects were dead on and the underlying stories were good fillers in between monster storms, tital waves, flying cars and crashing choppers. The best part about the whole thing was that there was no magic solution, this thing was uncontrollable and what takes place would seem to be about right in those circumstances. There is nothing here that has not been done before but it is done well enough that it reminds you what is great about the movies is the suspension of reality and a big bad of popcorn is just what the doctor calls for now and then. 7 out of 10