(Roland
Emmerich/2004/USA)
This is
pure, CGI laden bubblegum for the eyes. Disaster movies are a genre
that can happily pass a couple of hours with excitement, escapades
and harmless entertainment. I’ve been watching them since I was a
kid, Towering Inferno being an early viewing experience, and still
enjoy switching off the brain and getting stuck into these kinds of
films. It’s a good set up with Dennis Quaid being the very serious
scientist who reckons a catastrophic global environmental event is on
the way. No one listens obviously until it’s too late. His son is
in NYC on a school trip and takes refuge in the national library. Cue
the epic journey of dad to save son. There is silliness in some
scenes with wolves and the eye of the storm freezing stuff but
Emmerich doesn’t really care for scientific realism, he’s doling
out thrills and he does it fairly well.
(2.5/5)
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