The Day after Tomorrow (2004)

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	Year of first release: -
	Director: Roland Emmerich (2012, Independence Day 1-2, White House Down)
	Actors: Dennis Quaid (Vantage Point), Jake Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko, Enemy, Prisoners), Emmy Rossum
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action, Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 10.05.2017, VOD, 32" TV screen
Synopsis: When Jack Hall's theories (Quaid) about a catastrophic climate change come true, he has to work restlessly to warn the public, but at some point will risk his life to reach his son Sam (Gyllenhaal).
Review: Whenever you are craving over-the-top disaster movies, Roland Emmerich is always here for you. After he directed Stargate, Independence Day and Godzilla (I have never seen Patriot), The Day after Tomorrow belongs to a decade of brainless disaster movie to which he contributed 10,000 BC, 2012 and White House Down. Oh don't get me wrong I like this genre of movies, as long as you take them for what they are. This one is obviously inspired by global warming that started to be widely noticed in the 2000's especially thanks to ex-US Vice-president Al Gore's famous presentation, also shown in cinemas via the 2006 Academy Award winning Documentary An Inconvenient Truth. For the sake of Drama, Emmerich just sped up the decades-long process to a couple of months (or is it weeks?), and of course added to the mix a father searching for his son that he didn't care enough of. The Action is there, Drama occurs at the right times and Special effects are good (except for the digital wolves I found). Add to that nice actors like Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal and Ian Holm (Alien, Bilbo in The Lord of the Rings), and you get yourself a nice pizza-evening-with-friends movie.
Rating: 6 /10