The Day after Tomorrow (2004)
Genre: Scifi
Duration: 124 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal and Ian Holm
IMDb score:
6,5 (519.379)
Releasedate: 26 May 2004
The Day after Tomorrow plot
"Where will you be?"
Weather expert Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) warns with little success about the impact global warming will have on the climate. When the planet's northern hemisphere actually falls victim to tornadoes, floods and super-low temperatures, it is finally taken seriously. While the American south is being rushed to evacuate, northerners are advised to stay indoors and hope for the best. Hall decides to travel north to find his son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal), who is stranded in a library with some fellow students.
Actors and actresses
Jack Hall
Sam Hall
Laura Chapman
Jason Evans
Frank Harris
Dr. Lucy Hall
J.D.
Brian Parks
Janet Tokada
Parker
Reviews & comments
Roger Thornhill
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- 6284 messages
- 2594 votes
By far my favorite modern disaster movie. It's all about the visuals, and not all of them are good (the Antarctic ice landscape with icebergs at the beginning just doesn't look real, and those CG wolves look really lousy), but most of them are, and if they're good they are also very impressive at the same time: the reporter who is swept off the street by the billboard, the cleaner who sees how the entire side of his building appears to have been swept away, the "wall of water", and the Russian tanker that the streets of New York. The first half of this is an excellent disaster print that takes place at a fast pace and has a nice ecological message for those who are not bothered by the idea of the absurd condensation of time, the second half is somewhat ridiculous with Jack's foolish journey ("I have to do this!") and his collaborators to New York, but it shows the frozen future in a beautiful and tangible way, so I can also justify that plot line (and besides, if it was my own child sitting there like that... but then of course I would also have to have access to such arctic gear, and two friends who just want to risk their lives together with and for me). Cherries on the ice cream cake are the moving role of Ian Holm (Jack: “Professor, it's time you got out of there.” Rapson: “I'm afraid that time has come and gone, my friend.”) and the kind "reversal of fortune" to Mexico, and Dennis Quaid is an actor I really like and who fits this role very well. In short, as Roger Ebert concludes his review, "The day after tomorrow is ridiculous, yes, but sublimely ridiculous – and the special effects are stupendous."
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Shadowed
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- 12083 messages
- 7064 votes
Top.
Still one of my all-time favorite disaster movies. Emmerich puts down the films that I like to see the most from him. Lots of spectacle, a story that means nothing at all and beautiful effects, and voila, a disaster film.
Acting is nothing special and the story is pretty standard. But the film is extremely entertaining and captivating to watch. The effects are quite well done and manage to be very stylish too. Many natural disasters here, and all of them are nicely done.
It feels wrong somehow, so much human suffering and yet so much enjoyment 
. But hey, who cares. This film can call itself a success in its genre.
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Alathir
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- 2162 messages
- 1657 votes
The Day After Tomorrow is one I really liked back in the day. Now that I've gotten a bit older and wiser, it's only natural that I don't consider the film as good as it used to be. It was of course possible, but the scientific errors are so present that you can sometimes not look over it. The sea that suddenly rises by meters as a result of the melting of the polar ice is impossible. This (normally still) takes hundreds of years and not seconds. It's also strange that everything (including people) can freeze in an instant. The troposphere is certainly not cold enough to achieve that and, moreover, the air rises in the eye. I also thought it was very strange that the whole room froze with the exception of just around the built fire.
These are certainly not the only examples of scientific errors, but of course you also watch with the aim of being entertained. That works quite well, although I actually found the second phase of the film less interesting. The various climatic phenomena occurring in this work certainly still look quite impressive. I thought the father-son relationship wasn't explored enough to make me emotional and that's a shame because it's largely about that. Still a 3* because it remains entertaining. Well acted, reasonably timeless CG and well portrayed.
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