Proudly hyped using the phrase "From the Director of Indipendence Day" The Day After Tomorrow, makes no secret of the fact that it is a bug budget blockbuster movie. However, it swoops in with a message, a message of warning regarding global warming which is ironic since the film makes little or no reference to this.

Not heeding to warnings the US vice president deems our hero, a rather intelligent metiologist, to be a doom-monger. "Why should we worry about a problem which is a few hundred years away when we have more urgent problems?". When the world's weather literally takes a turn for the worse and those savings for a rainy day seem to have been a total waste of time, the problem gets so much worse much faster than could have ever been predicted. The president has to abandon the residents of the upper united states because they are already dead ...

The main story is of our hero, and his wife and kid, who manage to all be in different locations within the country. We see twisters, tidal waves and the sudden freezing of the seas around Manhattan! And rather oddly a death defying chase scene with some wolves.

All in all the film is very enjoyable, being more like Deep Impact than Twister, and not solving the problems with some super-weapon which would have been tacky and stupid. However the wolves and cheesiness of many of the scenes lost it some points.

see also:
Inception, The Dark Knight, Casino Royale, Mission Impossible III

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