| The promo for this film showed some neat special effects, particularly
New York City's downtown getting hit by a massive tidal wave, with buildings
being toppled. The problem with this movie is that there aren't really
very many special effects beyond what you see in the promo. As if the
promo was made, and then the rest of the film is filler. And it's really
yucky filler, too: mostly promo spots for MSNBC (yeah, right) and people
going crazy and acting stupid, like the girl who decides she'd rather die
with her parents than live with her boyfriend, even when everyone is telling
her to go. Or the president moping around from one failure to another.
"Well, this is it." Bleah. And don't even get me started on the physics
of this mess; obviously no one developing the movie has ever been to
college, or even passed high school level physics. Or for that matter
ever played pool! Some of the special effects looked recycled from ID4;
change the fire from orange to gray, and hey, water! Ah, water! A tidal
wave, I get it... |