Great special effects and storyline decent enough.

Rating: 10/10 (10 July 2005)

I had missed this movie at the theaters, but it was brought out on DVD soon enough.
Although movie strayed into silliness at times, e.g., Quaid trekking to NYC on foot to rescue his son, I thought the movie was done quite well. Good direction, plot, acting. Movie was effective enough that I crawled under an electric blanket so not to feel so cold while watching it.
I am not sure how big a budget the film required, but the special effects seemed state of the art and made the story believable.
I was a little depressed after seeing the movie because basically the U.S. was done with because of the disaster. Caused me to think what would we do if the U.S. was done for and we had to rely on Mexico for our continued existence.