Exciting Special Effects Movie

Rating: 7/10 (27 July 2006)

I watched this film twice. If you want complex character development, this is not your film. This is about dazzling special effects, and lots of scary stunts, with people doing foolish and dangerous things.
The disaster is on a GRAND scale, the entire northern hemisphere becoming uninhabitable by being suddenly covered in a new ice age. The surviving population of the USA become refugees in third world nations throughout the world. The president apologizes for his foolish short sighted anti-environmental policies that lead this catastrophe. This is not some petty disaster of a town being invaded by killer bees.
The magical ability of the leads to survive in temperatures that freeze everyone else solid in seconds is never explained. However, I am good at suspension of disbelief, and the film kept me on the edge of my seat.
Watching the New York skyscrapers turn into Popsicles is awe-inspiring and beautiful. Nature is like an avenging fury, majestic and beautiful. It is thus oddly deeply satisfying watching the massive tidal wave swamp New York.
The science to justify all the mayhem is not ridiculously hokey as is usual in such flicks. At least the vocabulary rings true.