Hollywood has always fancied on Doomsday. And yet again, US saves! Only this time it couldn't prevent the catastrophe. I am a sci-fi enthusiast and let me warn you - there is nothing much sci-fi about this movie except for a few made up jargons.
Directed by Roland Emmerich, who has brought us Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow (probably still ain't satisfied saving the World for us), this is only good for its large scale graphical scenes. Infact I felt like being on a ride at an amusement park; the plane always takes off at the last minute for our HERO finds some reason for delaying like taking his daughter to the Volcano crater before it erupts which I still fail to fathom, flying between falling high rises and at one point even crashing through one, people dangling from office buildings above deep faults (cracks) developed after the massive and continuous earth quakes, gigantic Antonovs developing engine failures while a trusty caravan helps the hero overtake a seismic fault and volcanic debris. All the stunts were quite predictable to me though. Then the tsunamis devouring everything from Vegas, Washington DC, Europe, India, China...
We are revealed early on the imminent and unavoidable Earth destruction and that a governing body collects 1 billion Euros from those who wish to be passengers of a ship. The audience is left with nothing to do from here on but watch. I believe Roland did not care much to explain the scientific reasons as he doesnt want to find a solution to this. And ofcourse we have the US president who matching with current times is Black this time. Played by Danny Glover, he decides to stay back while allowing his immediate staff and daughter to alight the ship. At one point it was mentioned to be a space ship. How it sparkled hopes in me of Aliens appearing later on either being the cause or on a rescue mission shouldering US Army! Roland had other plans.
The ship was instead an ark; resembling only in the name and concept. It carries the most important political figures and billionaires, genetically superior humans, animals, artifacts. The bad scenes to watch out for are the ones when the usual romance, American family and humanitarian values emphasized through individual likes of John Cusack and others while we watch in awe as million others being disposed to the fury of nature. It is not the masses that matters; like us audience. It is John along with his divorced wife and children along with a dog making it to the ship.
After the movie you would probably end up getting your senses assaulted with liquefied brains and that "We were warned!!"