AVIVA-BERLIN.de im April 2024 - Beitrag vom 16.06.2004


The day after tomorrow - die Eiswüste droht
Jennifer Gallagher

Eine Naturkatastrophe ungeahnten Ausmaßes bedroht im neuen Film von Regisseur Roland Emerich die Erde. AVIVA-Berlin verlost 2 tolle Filmpakete, die einen warmhalten.

A massive snow storm pounds New Delhi, bucket-size hailstones batter Tokyo, multiple tornadoes tear Los Angeles apart and in New York City the temperature swings from sweltering heat to freezing temperatures in one day. These extreme weather conditions make palaeoclimatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) realise that a new ice age is coming. And it does. Jack´s calculations are a bit off and havoc strikes with 48 hours. His son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) becomes trapped in New York´s Public Library when a tidal wave strikes the city. Jack and two colleagues attempt the dangerous journey from Washington to find him.

"The Day After Tomorrow" has everything you expect from a disaster movie: personal dramas set against apocalyptic mayhem, scenes set in control rooms with no-one in control, public monuments that we all know and love being torn apart, flooded or frozen in a split second.

Some of the scenes in this film are so silly that you just have to like them. For example, when Jack feels he has to explain the relationship between the North Atlantic current and the world´s climate to a room full of meteorological experts, or when Sam and his friends run faster than a towering wall of water. Perhaps the silliest of all is the realisation that Jack has made his journey not to save inhabitants of New York, or to save his own son, but rather to prove that he can actually keep an appointment. Unfortunately this makes the final scenes of this film anticlimactic and prompts a groan from the audience while our hero is left with nothing to do except grin.

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