A real clunker but...

Rating: 3/10 (29 May 2004)

This movie gets zero for acting, dialogue and plot and is unintentionally hilarious for the most part. I suspect it was made deliberately tongue-in-cheek by Roland Emmerich (Americans all fleeing to Mexico for refuge after agreeing to cancel their national debt is a masterstroke). I loved the bit where Dennis Quaid said 'Get your snow=shoes on, we are walking from here' - and they did, even in those conditions! The tidal-wave hitting Manhattan and the big freeze up scenes were admittedly quite spectacular but other fx were nothing special. However i forgive the movie all its faults and absurdities since it shows civilisation beginning and ending with the written word. Any movie that spends most of its time in the New York Public Library deserves to be commended - at least it's heart is in the right place.