An average movie

Honestly, I wasn’t expecting much from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Robert Carlyle, I thought I might as well give it a shot. On top of that, Nick, my step-son, is a huge fan of disaster flicks so we ended up watching it together. Well, honestly, it wasn’t really good I’m afraid. First of all, I didn’t notice before watching it but they actually broadcasted the longer version (more than 3 hours…) so that was a quite a bummer, even though the 2nd half was slightly better. Still, in fact, I don’t think it was a complete failure. Indeed, for once, the whole plot felt actually rather believable, at least compared to the usually preposterous plots developed in disaster flicks. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie was really weak. Indeed, you get the usual group of stereotypical characters, struggling with some underwhelming personal dramas and all the actors involved (even Robert Carlyle) gave some poor performances. The score was also really annoying and the directing with some gimmicky freeze frames all the time wasn’t really strong either. To conclude, even though I have seen worse, it still remain a really average flick and I don’t think it is really worth a look.

5/10