Roland Emmerich's eco-conscious disaster picture features breakout performances by the twisters that suck up the "Hollywood" sign, the killing frost that covers the Statue of Liberty with icicles and the tsunami that swamps Manhattan. If only the flesh-and-blood cast had such material with which to work. Divorced workaholic paleoclimatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) tries to warn the world's leaders that global warming is melting the polar ice caps and paving the way for a new ice age. But between America's namby-pamby president (Perry King, looking surprisingly presidential for the erstwhile star of THE POSSESSION OF JOEL DELANEY and CLASS OF 1984) and anti-environ...
Released:
2004
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
124 mins