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Plot synopsis:
Paleoclimatologist Jack Hall and his colleagues, Frank and Jason, are drilling for ice-core samples on the Larsen Ice Shelf for NOAA when the shelf breaks apart. When Jack later presents his findings on global warming at a United Nations conference in New Delhi, he fails to convince diplomats or US Vice President Raymond Becker. However, Professor Terry Rapson of the Hedland Climate Research Centre in Scotland believes in Jack's theories. Shortly after, several buoys in the North Atlantic simultaneously register a sharp drop in ocean temperature, and Rapson concludes that melting polar ice has begun to disrupt the North Atlantic Current. He contacts Jack, whose paleoclimatologic weather model demonstrates how climate changes caused the first ice age. His team, including NASA meteorologist Janet Tokada, builds a forecast model based on Jack's findings.
Around the world, violent weather causes widespread destruction; US President Blake authorizes the FAA to halt air traffic due to severe turbulence. On the International Space Station, three astronauts see a storm system spanning the Northern Hemisphere, which soon develops into three hurricane-like superstorms. The temperature of the eyes of the storms is −150 °F (−101 °C), flash freezing anything in their paths. The cells, located over Canada, Scotland, and Siberia, will affect all of their respective continents within days. During this time, tornadoes destroy Los Angeles.
In Manhattan, Jack's son Sam learns about the worsening weather when he participates in an academic decathlon. Although Sam promises to be on the next train home, flooding quickly closes the subway and Grand Central Terminal, before a gigantic storm surge strikes New York City, flooding Manhattan. Sam and a large group of people seek shelter in the New York Public Library, and his teammate and love interest, Laura Chapman, accidentally cuts her leg while wading through the waist-deep water to higher ground. In Scotland, Rapson and his colleagues at the Hedland Centre die in the European superstorm.
Upon Jack's suggestions, Blake orders the evacuation of the southern United States (with most refugees heading for Mexico) and warns the northern half of the country to seek shelter. Jack and his team set out for Manhattan to find Sam, but when their truck crashes into a vehicle north of Philadelphia, the group is forced to continue their journey on snowshoes. En route, Frank falls through the glass roof of a snow-covered shopping mall. As Jason and Jack try to pull him up, the glass under them continues cracking; Frank sacrifices himself by cutting the rope. Most of the group sheltered in the library leave (despite Sam's warning), when the water outside freezes, leaving Sam, his friends, and a few others who trust him. They burn books to stay warm and break into a vending machine for food. Sam admits his feelings for Laura (who has apparently caught a cold), and she reciprocates. At the US refugee camp in Mexico, Becker learns that President Blake died when his motorcade was caught in the superstorm, and he is now the president.
The next morning, Sam's group determines that Laura has blood poisoning from the cut on her leg. Sam and two others search for penicillin in a derelict Russian cargo ship that drifted into Manhattan. Although they find food and supplies, they also encounter a pack of escaped wolves from Central Park Zoo. The eye of the North American superstorm passes over the city, freezing it solid, and the three barely return to the library in time. Jack, also caught out in the eye with an unconscious Jason, narrowly escapes the deep freeze himself by taking shelter in an abandoned fast-food restaurant.
Days later, as the superstorms dissipate, Jack and Jason reach New York and find Sam's group alive. They radio the news to the US government in exile in Mexico, and Becker orders rescue teams to pick them up and search for other survivors in the northern states in his first address as president. On the ISS, astronauts look down in amazement at an Earth whose northern hemisphere is now mostly covered by ice and snow.

Tags: western, violence

Review:
Decent Spaghetti/Paella Western co-produced by Italy and Spain and shot in Almeria , of course ..
Acceptable Spaghetti about an avenger who sets out to avenge the murder of his brother .
Tortilla/Ravioli Western with a professional Italian director and two main actors from Spaghetti : Richard Harrison and José Bódalo .
This is an exciting film , plenty action , thrills , fights , crosses and doublé-crosses and starking outdoors from Manzanares Del Real , La Pedriza , Madrid and Las Tabernas desert , Almeria .
This violent Western is set on dirty outdoors and evocative interiors , the star is a mysterious revenger with glasses , Stan Ross (Richard Harrison) , who comes to a dangerous little town , Canyon City , and he searches for the killer of his brother , Bill Ross , and taking on nasty villainous .
It deals with an avenger , he gone back from a dark past to revenge his sibling .
Implacable gunslinger Ross searches for the killer and arrives in a small town , a location dominated by violent gangs and in which takes place a botched holdup , while robbing the local bank .
In that place there is a feared band led by Espartero (José Manuel Martín) and his nasty gunfighters .
Ross also faces off a wealthy owner Colonel Jefferson (José Bódalo) , and Bank proprietary : the Jefferson's Bank .
Thereby involved in a war between two factions headed by two ominous baddies .
Meanwhile , bespectacled pistolero Ross saves a damsel in distress (Pamela Tudor) from Jefferson 's hoodlums .It is a moving western with breathtaking gunfight between the protagonist Richard Harrison against the heartless José Bódalo and Paolo Gozlino or Paul Stevens ; in addition , a stirring ending fight , including surprising plot twists .
This movie is a lot of fun to watch , packing elaborate shoot-outs , thrilling filming , and portentous close-ups of grime-encrustred faces with bloodbaths included .
The chief excitement lies in seeing what new and amazing victim can be executed by the merciless gunfighter .
As Ross/Harrison becomes involved with two feuding factions and he seems to dispatch new bizarre killing every few minutes of the movie , ¨One After Another¨, by hanging , stabbing , shooting or blow-up .
It's an entertaining story with a touch of peculiarity , some offbeat as well as violent roles , and an amazing music score .
The picture is a tale of justice and revenge , as a tough man seeks vendetta and his objective results to be a bloody revenge .
Richard Harrison is appropriate in his usual two-fisted character , he ravages the screen , shoots , hit and run and kills .
The handsome , American -born Harrison may be a name best remembered by Western aficionados , he was one of the most popular actors of the genre from the mid-'60s to 70s , as he performed a lot of cheap B movies , some of them , nowadays , revered cult classics .
However , he never became a top international box-office attraction .
His acting is often accused of being wooden , but in many manners is ideally suited to playing the steely-faced gunslinger synonymous with the genre .
Harrison played in Hollywood some minor roles as ¨Kronos¨, ¨South Pacific¨ and ¨Master of world and ends up traveling in Europe in the sixties where he made a lot of Euro-westerns .
Then , Harrison jumped at the chance when offered the first character in 1961 ,¨The Invincible Gladiator¨ , which was filming in Europe .
He wound up settling in Italy for the next two decades .
From there , Richard went on acting in sword-and-sandal epics , later moving onto the Western genre , wartime , and thrillers .
Strong and robust Richard Harrison was a magnificent muscle-man who played several Peplum and Western , where he found his niche .
To avoid being penned in too much as a muscle man , he sought characters in routine spaghetti westerns as ¨Texas the Red¨, ¨Gringo¨, ¨Reverendo Colt¨ , ¨Joe Dakota¨ , even the main role from ¨For a fistful of dollars¨ was offered to Richard Harrison , but he turned down and explaining : ¨Maybe my greatest contribution to cinema was not doing ¨Fistful of Dollars¨ , and recommending Clint Eastwood for the part¨ .
Support cast is plenty of familiar faces , appearing the Spaghetti ordinary roles , such as : the Spanish secondaries as Hugo Blanco , José Manuel Martín , José Jaspe , José Canalejas , Luis Barboo , as well as Italian ones as Fortunato Arena , Roberto Messina and Goffredo Unger .
There is plenty of action in the movie , guaranteeing some shoot'em up or stunts every few minutes .
There is a very odd implementation of shots in the camera work during some particular scenes as the film approaches its climax , such as in the final gunfights .
The musician Berto Pisano composes a nice soundtrack in Morricone style and well conducted , this turns out to be one of the most memorable parts of the movie ; a haunting musical background , as well as some wonderful songs .
Striking and atmospheric cinematography by Mario Pacheco .
Nick Nostro's direction is professionally crafted , here he is more inclined toward violence and packs too much action , but especially this thrilling Western contains long shoot'em up .
He directed this passable western , genre in which he would not only excel but one where he would spent much of the rest of his career , as he directed all kinds of genres , most of them co-produced with Spain : Italian crime/mystery as "Web of Violence" , "Operation Counterspy" , "Vendetta at Sorrento" , "Superargo Against Diabolicus" ; Peplum as "Triumph of the Ten Gladiators" , ¨Spartacus and 10 gladiators¨ and Spaghetti as "One Dollar of Fire" and this Day ¨After Tomorrow¨ also titled ¨One After Another or ¨Von Django¨ ..
Far from unique, but not bad.
Spaghetti westerns like this were made by the dozen in the sixties.
Where only a few made it to become commonly known and recognized as great pictures, flicks like this one are more or less forgotten or little known today.
The plot of this movie is more or less like Yojimbo (A fistful of Dollars).
A lone man rides into town where the bank has been robbed for a large amount of gold.
He joins up with two gangs in turn, and gets beaten up by both.
Our man, Stan, is an unlikely hero in that he wears glasses.
These are, of course, broken several times.
Knowing this will happen, Stan keeps a handy folder filled with spares attached to the inside of his jacket.
Quite funny, in fact.
Not much else to say about the movie besides that both colors and the photography are quite nice..
Atypical spaghetti western.
Though I love spaghetti westerns, I won't deny the fact that a number of certain elements keep popping up in them.
However, "One After Another" is less predictable than usual.
One reason is the depiction of the hero - or should I say "hero".
Richard Harrison's character of Stan is much less likable than your typical spaghetti western protagonist, showing a real unlikable side from his insults to people to shooting people down in cold blood.
Still, this eyeglass-wearing person is interesting, because you wonder what unlikable action he'll do next.
The movie remains interesting for other reasons as well.
The first ten minutes are jam-packed with dirty dealings and unexpected occurrences, and there are several more unexpected turns in the plot to follow.
Eventually the movie does settle into a familiar formula (hunting down the bad guys one by one), but the movie remains interesting with its interesting visuals, good music, and a fairly zippy pace.
Spaghetti western fans should like this, and even non-fans may find this offbeat enough to keep them watching..
Worth Watching when You're Going through the Genre One After the Other.
Whether you think this movie was atypical or not, I think, comes down to what you pay attention to.
If you're the kind that gets into personal details, you'll likely think that, but if you're looking at the genre top down it's not that different than the standard fare.
I felt it was a solid example of the genre and worth watching for genre-philes.
It does well with non SW lovers as well, so, a solid entry I say.
You could argue that it is very typical in the way it is atypical.
The glasses are a good example.
Seems an odd touch if you think of it in an absolute sense, but typical "routinely does the highly improbable" in SW terms.I liked it..
Watchable Richard Harrison Western.
After a violent bank robbery by fake Mexican Bandits, the crooked bank president/ringleader hires bounty hunter Richard Harrison to find the patsy blamed for the holdup.
Catching up with him, Harrison learns the truth and schemes with the real gang of banditos to get his hands on the loot.Cleanshaven, with spectacles, neat hair, and a black overcoat that conceals his size, Harrison looks a lot different than you're used to seeing in various spaghetti westerns and muscle-man movies.
His character is a bit colder as well.Though somewhat typical, there's a high level of torture and double- crossing going on.
It might not be memorable, but it's watchable and has a few surprises going for it.Watch out for Harrison's glasses case, which unrolls to find about six pairs.
I imagine his line of work can be pretty hard on your face!.
One After The Other,The Day After Tomorrow..
Whilst trying to decide on which Spaghetti Western I should watch,I found that I was having great trouble tracking down any info for an Italian Crime looking film called One After Another.Taking a closer look and more detailed search at the cast members listed on the DVD case,I was surprised to find out that the "Italian Crime" movie I had been searching about was actually a Spaghetti Western which had become some what buried in recent years,thanks to its main alt English title The Day After being a similar title to Roland Emmerich's 2004 Disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow.With having found myself getting a good bit of luck in finding out about the movie,I decided that it time to take a look at the movie,the day after tomorrow.The plot:Turning up after having found out a few days ago that the towns bank has been robbed, glasses wearing bounty hunter Stan Ross enters the a near by saloon,and quickly shows the tough locals that even if they are able to take his sight away from him,he still has enough cunning in his fighting skills to knock them all to the ground.Impressed by Stan's no nonsense approach,mayor and bank manager of the town (who also has total control over what goes on in the town) Jefferson accepts Ross's request for money if he is able to capture one of the Mexican bandits from the recent robbery,dead or alive.Careful give a silent and stern exterior appearance instead of a trigger happy one,Ross finds the Mexican bandits hiding in the mountain,and quickly ends up coming face to face with bandit leader Espartero.Allowing Espartero to give the shocking news that he and his gang had no connection at all to the robbery,and also that Espartero had been recently working closely with Jefferson,Stan begins to wonder if Jefferson has a much stronger grip on the city than he had ever expected.View on the film:Giving the movie a double-barrel shot of Film Noir,the screenplay by (deep breath!) Mariano de Lope,Carols Emilio Rodriguez,Giovanni Simonelli and director Nick Nostro wonderfully leaves all of the characters from having one single moral,with each of the characters,from the cheating banker to the lone bounty hunter and a salon Femme Fatale all after cold hard cash and revenge,and each being more than happy to shoot anyone in the back who tries to stop them getting their own way.
Backed by an overly abrasive score from Berto Pisano, (although the title track by Fred Bongusto) director Nick Nostro shows a real flair for finding some well placed Black Comedy moments in this terrific Spaghetti Western,from a coffin maker who celebrates his payday whenever a dead body turns up in the town,to Stan Ross having an endless supply of glasses.Entering the film wearing glasses that would make the villain in a serial killer movie proud,Richard Harrison gives a strong,quiet,tough and mean performance,with Harrison brilliantly showing everyone he meets,that no matter how much they offer,the only thing that Stan Ross wants to see is for them all to fail,one after the other.