Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Sela Ward,
Joe Cobden, Jared Harris, Rick Hoffman, Perry King,
Kenneth Moskow, Austin Nichols, Nestor Serrano, Arjay
Smith, Tamlyn Tomita |
Directed
by: Roland Emmerich
Written by: Roland Emmerich, Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Produced by:
Distributor: 20th Century Fox |
US:
28 MAY 2004
UK: 28 MAY 2004 |
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, earthquakes, 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
Adrian 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... (Rossum plays another student, and
Gyllenhaal's romantic interest; Ward plays Quaid's wife
and Gyllenhaal's mother; Serrano plays Quaid's boss)
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Instead
of this bloated sounding rubbish, check out a 1962 British
flick called "The Day The Earth Caught Fire".
A superb apocalyptic movie. Available on DVD this B&W
flick is quite stunning, superbly acted, great characters
- in particular the late great Leo McKern as the irrascible
newspaper editor. |
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"You can just never find a damn water taxi when you want one"
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