End of the World?

Rating: 1/10 (30 November 2005)

Nah, it's not all that bad, but pretty close. This movie could be called "Independence Day 2: Attack of the Bad Weather!" as it has about the same amount of intelligence as the famous Aliens-Attack-tripe. As always when it comes to this kind of movies, special effects goes first, and script, acting, mood, everything else, comes second. And even the effects are bad.
Movie kicks off by piling cliché after cliché, and we already know how the movie is going to end. Wait, we've still got about five hours of drivel to watch, haven't we? Oh, well...
Then disaster kicks in. Literally for both the main characters and for everyone watching the piece of manure on the screen. Suddenly Earth (America) is under attack by CGI weather effects, and people (ugly people) starts dying. The beautiful people, and a dog, survive. Alright, and this is supposed to be based on science? Right.
Now comes the heroic tale of one man (and his expendable side-kicks) and his journey to save his estranged son who is saving his friends in a New York library by burning a lot of books. We get to follow the main character's arduous walk from Philadelphia (?) to New York, a walk that seem to take a little under two days, and that in a terrible blizzard.
I've got to stop here... this is too hard. Here we are, faced with a very real problem, something that may very well change our planet, eradicating many forms of life, and this is the way to make people aware of it? In the DVD-box I even found a flyer informing me about the effects of global warming, telling me that many of the events in the film may come true. What? Are people really so stupid or thick-headed that we have to force feed them disinformation to make them start thinking about a problem? This is like those people saying that one cigarette will kill you, or that if you exercise and don't eat a lot, people will like you. It's not only bad cinema, it's dangerous cinema. Sure, obviously Americans need to be educated a bit to be able to take the environmental problems of this planet seriously, but this is not the way to do it.
Shame on you Emmerich! Shame on you!