The Day After Tomorrow

I really liked this movie a lot. While it is quite unrealistic, they did a good job of making it seem real. Sure, there are holes in the plot, but it contained many edge-of-your-seat moments and it was quite entertaining.

Dennis Quaid plays Adrian Hall, a man like any other -- he's divorced and has a son he barely knows (played by Jake Gyllenhaal, who is starring in 'Jarhead') Hall is a paleoclimatologist who is trying to convince the world of the effects of global warming. When the consequences turn out to be more serious than even he estimated, he goes into action with the government to evacuate people from the Northern United States into Mexico and even further southeward.

There's just one problem -- his son is hopelessly stranded in New York. Quaid travels north into New York to save his son from iminent death.

The special effects are amazingly jaw-dropping. You watch New York City disappear in a cloud of bitter coldness. You watch the greatest city in the US (yes, THE GREATEST city in the US) literally freeze over. You watch supercells twice the size of Russia ravage across the world in all its fury. The effects are not quite as awesome as Star Wars, but then again, I'm biased. The thing that gives me chillls about this movie is that it looks so incredibly real. With Star Wars, it's in space, so it's not as convincing, obviously.

Four stars. I love Dennis Quaid...