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The Statue of Liberty engulfed by a massive tidal wave. Four simultaneous tornados destroying Los Angeles. Hail stones the size of footballs killing people in the streets of Tokyo. Hmmm… The effects were good, but The Day After Tomorrow was so formulaic it actually got quite dull after the first hour.
It did, however, have some interesting twists, like the Americans fleeing across the border into Mexico. Suddenly it was they who were the illegal immigrants. I don’t think the irony was lost on anyone in the cinema last night. There was the fact that all of the ‘Third World’ nations opened their doors to let in the ‘First World’ refugees, and the United States cancelled all Latin American debt in return for assistance.
There was much talk of the Kyoto Agreement, and how governments were ignoring it at all our peril and, on the whole, it came across as an anti-Bush disaster movie as much it did a warning about the potential damage caused by climate change.
But there were of course the inevitable inconsistencies. How could the GPS receivers work in the midst of a blizzard when they could not possibly have triangulated with the satellites? How come Donnie Darko was able to clamber around on the outside of a tanker that had drifted into the middle of the flooded streets of New York with only one glove and not have his bare hand stick to the frozen metal at temperatures approaching -150 degrees?
It was a mere three out of five, that film, losing itself points for the equal balance of dodgy effects that almost degrade the good ones, because of the tired storyline, and because in three years time, when technology has moved on, it will most likely look unrealistic, and quite possibly laughable.
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