I'm late to the table for this film as it ends its 2 week
stint at major theatres. But it served its purpose for what was nearly 3 hours
of crash bang wallop. However, let me say right away that as a popcorn disaster
movie it entertained, and kept my daughter and I from looking at our watches -
no mean feat for any film once passed 90 mins. That's not to say that we were
riveted to our seats throughout since I suffered an sfx wearisome overload by
120 mins.
The extraordinary luck that keeps our protagonist from a fate
worse than... let me pick a few, giant cracks, exploding crashing buildings, a
billion tonnes of Yellow Stone Park landing on his head, molten lava fireballs,
fuel starvation, drowning etc etc, leads me to ask, do we have to suspend our
belief or is it that we must suspend disbelief?
Too often enough there are dramatic special effect
developments clearly too ludicrous to believe... earthquakes that open up huge
cracks in the road with no apparent effect on the car as it drives furiously
through a disintegrating LA, building debris and thick smoke that have no
effect on the twin engined aircraft as it flies through toppling skyscrappers.
But hey, this isn’t a documentary, we are here to be entertained.
With some gaud awful one liners 'The world, as we know, will
come to an end soon' - spoken by a dreary US President (Danny Glover) - the
film danced between those who knew the big secret and those who didn’t know
jack sh*t, other than when the moment arrived and the world boiled. You'll
recognise the latter bunch as they're the ones falling out of buildings, being
crushed by buildings or simply falling into the earth's crust.
A believable part played out by Chewitel Ejiofor (Love Actually) but with no other outstanding performances - what on earth is Woody Harrelson doing - and by a whisker only, I rate this film 3 out of 5 (IMDb 6.5 / 10)
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