Sunday night I went to see this flick at Horsham Cinema but first a warning. There are some minor spoilers here so come back after you have seen the movie if you want it to retain the surprise elements.
I sometimes struggle with disaster movies. The contrived extra drama is a real show stopper for me. Happily, this flick is much better than the standard fare with all the events sitting nicely within the story. The special effects are very good too. None of that lame gfx as featured in Twister.
Of special note is a number of things that usually accompany disaster movies but are surprisingly missing here.
Firstly, No ones cell phone cuts out at a critical moment. A thousand thankyous for that.
Then there is a Russian aircraft that is technically in good nick.
Thirdly, although a lot of the action happens in the States, the solution is in another country and the final settlement location is not in America either.
Now as much as I enjoyed the above items, there is some stretching of the imagination required and it has the obligatory “The US President stays with his people to the bitter end,” moment, but for all that it is still a very entertaining movie. It’s helped by the strong cast especially John Cusack and Oliver Platt.
It does prompt a bit of thinking too though I suspect while others were concerned about Climate Change I was wondering which ark the telephone sanitizers were going in.
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