Seen the ads, you've seen the movie!

Rating: 5/10 (31 May 2004)

I went to this movie expecting to see some state of the art special effects and not much else. But there isn't anything more to see than what you've already seen in the ads: tornadoes in LA and a 25 foot storm surge in Manhatten. Everything else is snow storms and satellite images on weather screens. The scenes last longer in the movie but it's not enough to recommend the film to anyone like me who expected to see some good effects on the big screen. The rest of the story is all tired plot lines rehashed from other disaster movies. And as for all the hype this movie is getting about the Dick Cheney look alike veep, that's a lot more interesting to talk about on Fox than to see in the film. Don't bother.