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Movie: The Day After Tomorrow
Director: Roland Emmerich
Actors: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Sela Ward, Ian Holm, Perry King
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Director Roland Emmerich, brought us epic movies like Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla and The Patriot. Emmerich likes to blow things up, destroy complete cities with a laser beam coming straight out of an UFO and now he decides to destroy the world in the disaster flick The Day After Tomorrow. The movie stars Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Ian Holm and Sela Ward.
The story in a nutshell:
Global warming causes multiple hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tidal waves, floods which evolves into a new Ice Age. Climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) tries to save the world and his son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) who's stuck in a snow covered New York.
Could The Day After Tomorrow be a vision of the future? Scientists are speculating if this could really happen. Greenpeace is using it to get more funding. I'm just seeing it as fun popcorn movie! And what a flick it is!
Let's start with the cast, Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal, wonderful actors, too bad the dialogs are a bit stiff, corny but they're making the best of it.
The rest of the characters are stereotyped and predictable like Jake Hall's wife Lucy Hall, played by Sela Ward, who works at a hospital and trying to save a little patient from the blizzards. Or Sam's love interest Laura (Emmy Rossum) who falls for the wrong guy. There's also Ian Holm, Bilbo from LOTR, in a small but beautiful role as Hall's colleague climatologist Terry.
Let's get on with the real star of the movie; the visual effects, absolutely phenomenal! The artificial hurricanes, giant tidal waves and chilling blizzards are extremely realistic and blend in nicely with the "real" actors and backgrounds. The story builds up nicely with great tense moments. The movie surpasses other disaster flicks like Deep Impact, Armageddon and Twister.
Director Roland Emmerich proves once again that he's a master in creating a fun and epic summer movie, providing the chills and thrills for the ultimate ride. The Day After Tomorrow is the über-disaster flick of all time.
Written by Reggy 28/05/04
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