The Day After Tomorrow Review by Chris (3.5 Stars)

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Starring:
Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Sela Ward, Tamlyn Tomita, Austin Nichols, Tim Bagley, Jay O. Sanders, Sasha Roiz, Ian Holm, Carl Alacchi, Kenneth Welsh, Arjay Smith, Anne Day-Jones

Directed By:
Roland Emmerich

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

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Movie Review by Chris
September 3rd, 2007

Well Done

The Day After Tomorrow is an end of the world film. Where scientists try to tell the US that the world is going to end soon, very soon. Roland Emmerich (Beowulf) gives us a film with big special effects, but with barely a story.

This movie takes a big-budget, special-effects-filled look at what the world would look like if the greenhouse effect and global warming continued at such levels that they resulted in worldwide catastrophe and disaster, including multiple hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of the next Ice Age. At the center of the story is a paleoclimatologist (a scientist who studies the ways weather patterns changed in the past), Professor Jack Hall (Quaid), who tries to save the world from the effects of global warming while also trying to get to his son, Sam (Gyllenhaal), who was in New York City as part of a scholastic competition, when the city was overwhelmed by the chilling beginnings of the new Ice Age. In addition to all of the other challenges Dr. Hall faces, he's also going against the flow as humanity races south to warmer climes, and he's nearly the only one going north...

The acting in the movie is very average. Dennis Quaid gives a good performance as a scientist. Jake Gyllenhaal (Zodiac) puts on a fairly good acting performance, but I believe he is kinf of one dimensional. Also in the cast is Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok and Sela Ward.

The special effects are huge in this movie. We get giant waves of water,tornadoes an magnificent disaster segments.

Bottom Line: Great SFX, but a horrible story.

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