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Review by: Breanne Derby
Plot Summary
This is a story, similar to others, where something uncontrollable has been unleashed upon the earth, and everyone is attempting to survive it. Often in these movies something sentimental comes out in the characters, and they work together to build a better humanity; this movie is no exception. It has its ups and downs, and it is without a doubt somewhat a bumpy ride, but for the most part, I would say that the quality is good, and overall, worth seeing.
Review
In the beginning of this natural disaster movie, I was strongly reminded of Independence Day. It took a while for the sense of disaster to set in, and the extremities of the problem to be expressed. The scene kept changing, and it took me a while to get a hang on who was where in the world, and what was happening there. There were several scene switches, going from
England to Los Angeles, to Washington D.C. to New York City and many places in-between. After the first half-hour or so, the movie settles down and the plot is somewhat established, and it becomes less hard to follow.
The world's quasi-demise comes from global warming causing ice at the poles to melt and the ocean levels to rise. This eventually causes massive hurricane-esque snow storms to develop over North America, Europe, and Asia. These storms are incredibly dangerous to humans because the temperatures drop so low in their centers that a human will freeze to death in a matter of seconds, being covered with a thin sheet of frost. Eventually, the storms will settle, and the world will experience a second ice-age. This concept seems a bit drawn out and unbelievable in the timeframe given (three or four days), but to sit through the rest of the movie, you must accept that.
Conclusion
The plot of this story is moderately predictable, though they took some of the Hollywood out of it, and didn't show the gory deaths of those who didn't survive. The science of it seemed quite well developed except for the rapid rate at which the ice-age set in, and one purely idiotic part involving wolves that really should have been abandoned. The ending is really quite predictable, but not in a horrible way, as the rest of the movie was quite good, and it wasn't a theme that's been overplayed such as a meteor crashing into the earth. I personally enjoyed this movie despite some bad press I'd heard on it earlier in the year. The special-effects in it were quite good, and it was a bit of a shock to see the statue of liberty. This movie wasn't the disaster (pun intended) I had thought it was going to be, and after I watched it, I was gladly surprised. I’m almost disappointed that I didn’t see it in theatres. This film recieves three out of five stars.
