The Day After Tomorrow

The Day After Tomorrow ( TDAT ) is one of my favorite movie in disaster category.  The story is great, and it gives very good lesson to human kind. If we keep polluting the atmosphere by taking nature resources as granted, then eventually nature will turn around. And if it turns around then effects are devastating and catastrophic.  We can't survive. Though we are so advanced in technology and we are proud as superior species on the whole planet. But Still we are surviving on the grace of nature. We can see plenty of examples. We can take only precaution to minimize the effect of hurricanes, cyclones etc... otherwise we don't have the power to stop them. Some of the nature disasters like earth quakes even don't leave any hint to us to take precaution. However, at least few things like temperature rises, acid rains and things happened in this movie can be prevented if we don't pollute nature.

Anyway, when It comes to the movie. The story is so realistic, and  in one point you can feel it might happen in one day to earth. I've not seen the lead actor Dennis previous movies, and in fact I don't know him until in this movie. His acting as paleoclimatologist is very natural, but sometimes I feel his face don't show few emotions. The first scene in Antarctica where ice breaks was a highlight, and that helps to involve in the movie. The next following scene is in Delhi, India. I was wondering why most of the disaster movies, starts scenes in India. The other successful disaster movie is "2012", which also starts in India. It could be that these disaster movies have huge openings in India, so if they put at least few scenes in India then Indian people easily connect to it.

Later in the movie, the sequence of scenes like sudden temperature drops in oceans, violent changes in the weather across the world hook you to the movie. I liked the scenes which shows the storm from the space station. I don't know whether really there would be any people living in space station and watching earth regularly. But those scenes are helped to understand the magnitude of the storm on the earth.

As usual the CG works are nicely done. Since I watched this movie on blue-ray, so there are few deleted scenes included in special features. Which were deleted before post production. You can see in those scenes how they picture and mix the CG work and actual scene with actors. Apart from main disaster theme, there is a underline father-son bonding in this movie. The father comes to rescue his son, who stuck at new york public library.

There is a funny scene, where all Americans escapes to Mexico as illegal immigrants as Mexican government closes the border gates due to massive people coming to Mexico. This is really funny because in real it happens in other way round where Mexicans try to enter US illegally.

There are few hospital scenes with Dennis wife, where she is treating an ill boy. I felt only those scenes are blocking the story. Even if they delete those scenes there is no damage to the movie. Actually they deleted 18 mins footage. I watched all those deleted scenes. Some scenes are re-done, especially when Jack ( Dennis ) and Jason ( The other guy who comes to rescue Jack's son ) take shelter in an abandoned hotel. The whole scene they had re-done though dialogues are remain same.

At the end, all of the sudden, the  deep freeze stops and the atmosphere becomes normal, which I thought they did that way to end movie in happy note. But the complete northern side of earth covered in ice and snow.

The movie ends with president speech saying at least we should open our eyes and stop misusing natural resources in greedy.

Overall in disaster category this is one of the best movie. I'm giving rating 8 out of 10.