The day after tomorrow is an american movie from 2004. Movie tells about climate change and its consequenses. The movie has been writed by Roland Emmerich, who has also directed it. Main actors are Dennis Quaid as professor Jack Hall, Jake Gyllenhaal as Sam Hall, Emmy Rossum as Laura Chapman, Ian Holm as professor Terry Rapsom and Sela Ward as Dr. Lucy Hall.
The movie tells about professor Jack Hall who studies climate change. He has discovered that global warming may change the directions of seacurrents. That may stop the North Atlantic current and cause new ice age. Hall tries to covince everybody to start actions to stop global warming before is too late. Hall however underestimates how quickly the effects start. All over the world happens unprecented weather conditions, which lead to three super-storms which cover the whole northern hemisphere. Jack Hall demands authorities to start evacuations and tries get to New York to save his son Sam Hall and his friends before is too late.
The movie is normal disaster movie, where reseachers try to covince authorities who don’t beliveve until the disaster happens. When Jack Hall is covincing authorities, meanwhile his son Sam Hall is in New York participating in decathlon with his friends Laura Chapman and Brian Parks. After the decathlon they try to survive under weather conditions. Sam and Laura fall in love middle of disaster which was very predicdable, but it brings drama to the movie. After all the movies plot takes wiever with it but it is also normal to disaster movies and so it is very predicdable.
One part of the movie which needs fixing is its actor performance. Some critics say that it was clumsy and only thing that saved the movie was its special effects, but in my opinion performance was not entire failure. In some parts the acting is great but sometimes it could be done better. Older actors acting was great, but younger actors performance needs fixing.
One of the best parts of the movie was its special effects. Effects where spectacular and make already good movie fantastic. Many critics have also praised the effects and said that they were the best part from the movie. All those tornadoes, storms and floods will take wiever with them.
The movie have one big problem. The whole idea. Climatologists say that many weather conditions which happen in the movie are impossible and some are even against the laws of the physics. Critics also say that climate change cannot happen so quickly and dramatically and say that the movie is propaganda. In my opinion that is the point in the whole movie. It tells what can happen if climate change happens and we don’t do anything to it.
In my opinion the movie is great. It has compelling plot and cool special effects and also its message is important. If we don’t do anything to stop the global warming, we can face the same fate as Jack Hall.