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  • This big budget, sci-fi weather-related disaster was made in Montreal, and its $544 million

  • dollar gross makes it the highest grossing Canadian film of all time. No stranger to

  • destroying American landmarks with outlandish destruction sequences, famed German director

  • Roland Emmerich, who made his mark on Hollywood with pictures like "Independence Day", "Godzilla",

  • and later "2012", tackles the issue of climate change in a ridiculously enjoyable way. Voted

  • as one of the least scientifically accurate films every made, the plot here follows the

  • events surrounding a father and son who attempt to survive a mammoth super-storm that is sending

  • New York, and the rest of the northern hemisphere into a deep, lethal freeze. Dennis Quaid stars

  • as a paleoclimatologist, who is somehow the only person on Earth who predicts the coming

  • of a new ice-age: and even following extreme weather like tornados in Hollywood or hail

  • in Japan, everyone is too stubborn to heed his good advice. His brave, but caring leading-man

  • persona is familiar, but acted well. Staying exciting and tense throughout, the briskly

  • paced 124-minute adventure adeptly meshes both the macro story of mankind dealing with

  • extinction-level storms, and the micro events of Quaid's personal battles. Jake Gyllenhaal

  • plays his son, who finds himself trapped in the New York public library struggling to

  • survive with his attractive classmate, Emmy Rossum following a tidal wave of rising ocean

  • water that quickly freezes over Manhattan. The two young leads share some passionate

  • chemistry amidst incredible visual effects and stunningly effective CGI, lamenting to

  • each other, "I've prepared for a future that no longer exists". "The dialogue isn't anything

  • special, but it does enough to flesh out the characters, and drive the plot forward, even

  • Ian Holm is able to turn in a decent performance. Commendably, this movie shares some important

  • messages about global climate change, and respecting our planet's natural resources,

  • else we'll slip into another ice age. Unfortunately, the gross oversimplification and extreme acceleration

  • of these worst-case-scenario weather events nearly diminishes the effectiveness of any

  • pro-environment message. Rather annoyingly, this picture all but glosses over the deaths

  • of millions of humans, but spends a great deal of screen time focusing on a single child

  • dying of cancer, which may have created an ounce of emotional resonance, had his character

  • not been bereft of any development or dialogue. Combine that wasted sub-plot with a nonsense

  • sequence involving escaped wolves on a Russian tanker ship, and this film could have stalled

  • faster than a frozen helicopter. Frequently delivering harrowing thrills via liberal use

  • of unrealistic weather dangers, like when our heroes are quite literally outrunning

  • cold air itself, many scenes are laughably enjoyable. If you're able to forgive the dozens

  • of meteorological inaccuracies, that compresses centuries of climate events into a week-long

  • timeframe, this can honestly be a rather entertaining picture. Generic music, familiar thrills,

  • but an irresistible package make this picture supremely fun: after all, who doesn't love

  • watching New York get destroyed by weather? The Day After Tomorrow", "Amazing visual excitement,

  • unbelievable plot." Well those were my thoughts on the picture, now lets see what you had

  • to say in the YouTube comments.

  • "The Day After Tomorrow"... a SIX and a SEVEN. You faulted this movie for its sub-par acting,

  • and ridiculously unbelievable premise, but still loved the monumentally epic disaster

  • sequences, scoring the movie a GOOD. I'm a sucker for a fun end-of-the-world escapade,

  • and Emmerich certainly delivers once again. Shallow, absurd, and emotional empty, I still

  • enjoyed this movie enough to rate is a COOL.

This big budget, sci-fi weather-related disaster was made in Montreal, and its $544 million

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