The Day After Tomorrow [2004]

 

We've all seen some kind of disaster movie before and this one is mostly just another disaster movie with more of the same, however this one being slightly better than others around its time. 

The day after tomorrow shows us what will happen to the earth if we hit another ice age and temperature drops due to global warming problems and such, the movie begins looking into these problems as a problem for the future until suddenly things begin to change and what they predicated starts coming into effect. I personally always quite enjoy movies with Dennis Quad who here is our lead man so for me he was an instant likeable character, Jack Hall (Dennis Quad) is a paleoclimatologist who first discovered the statistics on what is due to happen across the world, Trying to convince the vice president that they must act on these reports now before it all gets out of hand. The Vice President being a very arrogant man he disagrees and lets everybody stay put until its to late and the disasters begin to hit the north side of America and other parts around the world. 

Not only does Jack Hall play a big part being the scientist in the movie but the second lead role Jake Gyllenhaal plays his son Sam who is now trapped in New York where the storm has hit bad. The story continues as Jack must venture through the storm to reach his son.

Something I liked about this disaster movie which others sometimes seem to forget is it has a bit of logic including things that we could consider some what realistic as we often hear about warning of global warming and such so its not too off the wall that we can't imagine it. It also included quite a lot of great shots for example one of my favourite scenes earlier on in the movie where many tornado's begin in LA and some other later scenes of New York in the freeze. 

Overall it was an enjoyable time that didn't need much concentration you can just turn off and enjoy the movie for what it is then you'll have a good time watching. In terms of rewatchablity I feel you could watch this a few times over without getting bored of it, making it worth a purchase if you can find it for a good price.

Rating 6/10