Movie Reviews - The Day After Tomorrow

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Movie reviews this week looks at the ecological suspense thriller The Day Immediately after Tomorrow with Dennis Quaid (Inner Space) as a climatologist Jack Hall, who for years has been warning the U.S. government and the globe in common that its' reliance on fossil fuels is causing a awesome deal of harm to the planet (a couple of years just before Al Gore's Oscar winning An inconvenient truth).

His estimations of a global disaster from global warming which would usher in a further ice age, which he predicts as a most beneficial guess estimate definitely not in his lifetime that polar melting would disrupt the North Atlantic current, suddenly escalates to the present, with an ice age hitting the vast majority of America, and Jack in a desperate rush against time to save his son, Sam Hall played by Jake Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko), who is trapped in New York, which unfortunately is at the epicentre of this ice age.

This is 1 of the very first movies to highlight the environment impact of our reliance on fossil fuels, with a number of scenes to ponder the possible disaster on our hands, one of these is a helicopter going over Scotland that suddenly just freezes at minus 150 degrees Fahrenheit and there is a amazing scene, exactly where Jack has been telling the scientific community would occur albeit with some scoffing, that the sun would accelerate the rapid decline in temperature to beyond freezing point, immediately freezing structures, and something that takes place to pass inside the rays of the sun at that specific time, unfortunately he gets to witness this phenomenon first hand in a desperate race against time to discover shelter while every little thing about him freezes as the sun comes up.

There is also an unforgettable scene as the Tower of Liberty freezes solid.

Not only does he have to breach the bitter cold, he also has to fend off dogs that have gone insane from hunger, searching for something warm blooded to eat, ergo any humans they can find.

We discover out that Jack feels he has let down his son a small, and this journey to get him is something he has to do to make up for their relationship, there is a brilliant conversation at the beginning, where Jack finds out Sam has failed Calculus, and Sam replies he got each question ideal, and the only reason the lecturer failed him was given that he did not write out the solutions but did it instead in his head, Jack asks him if he told the lecturer, he told him he did, but the lecturer mentioned if he couldn't do it in his head neither could Sam.