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The Day after Tomorrow

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• Sci-fi
• Thriller

• 2004
• Roland Emmerich
• 118 mins
• 12

Summary

Disaster movie from Independence Day director Roland Emmerich, starring Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal. When climatologist Jack Hall tries to warn Washington that the planet is facing an imminent, catastrophic climate shift, government officials fail to take him seriously. But, when the Earth abruptly plunges into a new ice age, it soon becomes clear that the human race is facing extinction.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Sloan Freer

This jaw-dropping disaster movie makes director Roland Emmerich's previous outings feel like expensive dress rehearsals. For all their epic destruction, his previous features Independence Day and the lacklustre Godzilla are damp squibs compared to this astonishing, cautionary tale. Rooted loosely in scientific reality, the film piles on the Hollywood excess to deliver a US-centred thrill-ride in which global warming abruptly pushes the planet into a new ice age during one incredible worldwide superstorm. Though there's a human element, focusing on climatologist Dennis Quaid's cross-country journey to Manhattan to rescue his trapped son, Jake Gyllenhaal, it's the weather effects that take centre stage. Putting aside the anticlimactic conclusion, this is cinema as pure spectacle, as tornados, flash floods, hurricanes and snow demolish cities including LA and New York. Never mind that the dialogue is frequently laugh-out-loud cheesy and the performances are often melodramatic, what counts here is the enormous entertainment factor.

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6.5/10

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Cast

rolenameProfessor Jack HallDennis QuaidSam HallJake GyllenhaalProfessor Terry RapsonIan HolmLaura ChapmanEmmy RossumDoctor Lucy HallSela WardJason EvansDash MihokFrank HarrisJay O SandersJDAustin NicholsBrian ParksArjay SmithJanet TokadaTamlyn TomitaLutherGlenn PlummerSimonAdrian LesterVice President BeckerKenneth WelshPresident BlakePerry KingJudithSheila McCarthyGomezNester Serrano

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rolenameDirectorRoland Emmerich

Details

Theatrical distributor

20th Century Fox

Released on

2004-05-28

Languages

English | Arabic | Japanese | French

Guidance

Violence, swearing.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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