Movies That Suck: The Day After Tomorrow

At some point in the future there will be major tornadoes in Los Angeles, huge hailstones will fall in Tokyo, and New York City will be flooded then the water will freeze causing a new Ice Age. That's according to the 2004 blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow. I would believe the film's message if it focused more on the plot and characters than on the effects. Unfortunately, the effects are the only decent aspect of the movie. The plot and characters are unimportant. Which is a shame, because I want to care about what happens to the characters, but I can't.

The plot doesn't make any sense. Global warming is happening, but not as rapidly as the movie suggests. For some reason in the US only happens it the eastern and western states, while the southern states and Mexico aren't affected as badly. So in order to survive there must be a massive evacuation to the south. That's what Sam Hall, a climate scientist tried to tell the president. Of course, the president doesn't believe him until its almost too late. When Sam gets a call from his son in New York, he decides to rescue him even if it means risking his life by walking all the way from Washington DC in extremely cold weather. The movie also has several subplots, but it seemed that the directer added them just to make the movie longer than it should have been.

The characters in the movie aren't much better. The actor's are unconvincing, and show very little emotion. It's hard to take any of them seriously, because of the horrible dialogue and acting.

Global warming won't affect the planet as rapidly as The Day After Tomorrow suggests. It could take decades or centuries before anything that happens in this movie actually occurs.

This movie had the potential to be great, but its a clear cut case of style over substance. Which is sad because the effects were cool at first, but after a while I realized that the people who made the movie spent more time on them and less time on writing a good script. Even the best actors couldn't save this disaster. That's why The Day After Tomorrow sucks.