Watched this a few days ago, early R1 import release.
I know it had bad reviews, but I kindof knew what to expect, and thought that it will at least look and sound good on blu ray.
Which it does. Maybe not quite reference quality, but pretty good.
But yes...it is very silly, and dumb.
Endless near misses, last-second escapes, people running, driving and flying through earthquakes, pyroclastic clouRAB, fireballs etc and coming out with nothing but a scratch.
Plus the usual dodgy acting and daft dialogue.
But...it does look good, has great effects and like most disaster movies it does hold a certain fascination.
But the two things about it for me that really let it down were -
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I know it had bad reviews, but I kindof knew what to expect, and thought that it will at least look and sound good on blu ray.
Which it does. Maybe not quite reference quality, but pretty good.
But yes...it is very silly, and dumb.
Endless near misses, last-second escapes, people running, driving and flying through earthquakes, pyroclastic clouRAB, fireballs etc and coming out with nothing but a scratch.
Plus the usual dodgy acting and daft dialogue.
But...it does look good, has great effects and like most disaster movies it does hold a certain fascination.
But the two things about it for me that really let it down were -
the whole end sequence with the 'arks' was very anti-climactic and unsatisfying, the film could have lost 30 minutes from that sequence easily and been all the better for it
and
the world does not end. I kind of thought that was the whole point of the movie. It suffers major devastation, sure. But it is still there. I had actually assumed that the 'arks' were spaceships, and the point was that they would ferry people to another planet.