Hollywood Virtual Game

Rating: 4/10 (30 May 2004)

Before I stepped into the cinema hall to view this film, I knew that I was stepping into another highly marketed Hollywood cliché on "natural scare tactics". Hollywood tends to enjoy racking in money by scaring their audience about the future. Films such as Day Afetr Tomorrow have been made before focusing on future fears such as "Independence Day", and at the end we see that the human kind is a winner, just so that we leave the cinema hall with comfortable feeling of surviving the mental trauma created by the film. Finally, most of us leave cinema hall saying "wow", "amazing", "fantastic only on a big screen", etc. The only part I believe is that it is nice on a big screen, and money well spent to create excitement and fear in people. As far as the story goes - there is none! Characterisation is lame and does not hold any weight. Graphics and special effects are only OK. Dialogues / script is boring. Acting talent - not required (especially here). Length of the film - it could have been shortened - 1. We have bad weather coming soon (20 minutes), 2. People in NYC made aware of the bad weather (10 minutes), 3. People dying in the bad weather (10 minutes), 4. A hero is born and wants to save the world (10 minutes), 4. Hero is struggling (5 minutes), 5. Finally, hero saves the world, and everyone is happy (10 minutes). Hey, that's only 65 minutes (shortest big budget Hollywood film).
My final conclusion: Please stay home and watch the local weather news and save some money for a day out on the beach and catch the waves.
Score: 4 out of 10.