Lame disaster movie

Rating: 1/10 (25 July 2004)

This has got to be the most lame disaster movie in a decade. The premise of global-warming-leads-to-new-ice-age is ridiculous. And even the actors in the movie respond as if they are just going through the motions of reading lame dialog. It's almost bad enough to be considered a spoof of disaster movies. The only thing worth watching in this film are some of the special effects. The drastic change in weather and tide, shall we say, in NYC is pretty interestingly portrayed. But the results of those same phenoms are unbelievable even in the context of the movie. Does anyone -- even the director -- believe that the Statue of Liberty would still be standing after that? It's insulting to the audience and it pulls the rug out from the rest of the movie. Nothing else has any credibility after that -- even when trying to suspend reality for the sake of enjoying the movie. So the whole movie is lame, lame, lame. And so far as this movie being a "statement" about the danger of global warming, it does more to highlight the absurdity of that argument than the opposition could ever achieve.