The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 disaster movie by Roland Emmerich who is most well known for directing Independence Day and also made the abominable insult to Godzilla with Godzilla ’98. Good thing we have the recent 2014 Godzilla movie, anyway The Day After Tomorrow is a about climatologist Jack Hall(played by Dennis Quaid) who says that sometime in the future increased global warming. May affect the weather in a way that will become deadly and unpredictable. After a huge flood hits New York and later turns into a deadly snow storm Jack’s son Sam Hall(played by Jake Gyllenhaal ) is trapped in New York City while on a school trip. So now Jack decides to go to New York City to find his son. As his son is also trying to survive with other people in New York.
Now the way that they use global warming in this movie is in the way of more of a plot device instead of an environmental message. It’s also been proven that it is scientifically impossible for global warming events that are in the film could happen in real life, so I doubt we will see a wall of water that is thousands of feet tall flooding New York City. The acting is decent with Quaid and Gyllenhaal bringing the best performances. The effects look very nice as they make different deadly weather patterns such as large tornados and snow storms. The character are ok their not very memorable and don’t have much development but they do help keep the plot going forward.
What makes this movie very entertaining to watch is all of the different weather conditions that they have to or escape from. Wether they’re trying to survive the harsh snow storm or are escaping a giant flood of water. The different crazy weather conditions that they have to survive makes for an captivating film. While The Day After Tomorrow relies most on its special effects and the characters aren’t that great, and it also has some really inaccurate science in it. It manages to be a very entertaining movie that is still worth seeing.
Score:8/10
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