Like Eating Bad Sushi

Rating: Null/10 (5 December 2004)

Like eating bad sushi -- it tastes OK going down, but you know something's wrong with it, and now your digestive system is in bad shape.
The script seems to have been written by someone with an incomplete high school education -- and I mean this as no insult, I think the person might be in 10th grade.
Destroying New York is not only trite, but it is in positively bad taste post 9/11.
The heroes of the film are (1) government scientists -- NOAA (huh?) and NASA, (2) the wonderful people of the Third World, and (3) a bunch of high school kids.
The most telling scene is right at the end, when the Russian cosmonaut looks at the Earth, post apocalypse, in which likely billions have just died, and marvels at how clear the sky looks. I think the director sees this as a "happy ending," which is nothing short of sick.
Which brings me back to bad sushi.