The Day After Tomorrow Review

The Day After Tomorrow

Release Date: 27th May 2004 - Australia

Production Companies

Twentieth Century Fox (presents)

Centropolis Entertainment

Lionsgate Films

Mark Gordon Company

Distribution 

20th Century Fox Australia

Genre: Sci-Fi

Rating: M

Runtime: 118 minutes


Budget: $125,000,000

Box Office Gross: $544,272,402 (Worldwide)

Plot Summary

Paleoclimatologist Jack Hall

is in Antarctica when he

discovers that the ice sheet

is cracking. He doesn't

realise that this event may

result in massive climate

change and affect the world

population. Meanwhile, his

son Sam attends an event

in New York with his friends

and discovers it has been

raining non-stop for three

weeks. Then, weather-

related disasters began

appearing, including

tornadoes scattered in Los

Angeles, a tidal wave

flooding New York City

and the entire Northern

Hemisphere starting to

freeze. Now, Jack has to

undergo a dangerous trek

to rescue his son and his

friends as they're stuck

in New York City, trying

to survive the cold

temperatures that could kill

them. Can Jack save Sam

in time before it's too late?

Will the world survive the

new Ice Age?

Cast

Dennis Quaid - Jack Hall

Jake Gyllenhaal - Sam Hall

Ian Holm - Terry Rapsom

Emmy Rossum - Laura Chapman

Sela Ward - Dr. Lucy Hall

Dash Mihok - Jason Evans
Austin Nichols - J.D.
Tamlyn Tomita - Janet Tokida
Kenneth Welsh - Vice President Becker
Arjay Smith - Brian Parks
Jay O. Sanders - Frank Harris
Sasha Roiz - Parker
Perry King - President Blake
Adrian Lester - Simon
Glenn Plummer - Luther
Nestor Serrano - Gomez
Vitali Makarov - Yuri
Christopher Britton - Vorsteen
Caroline Keenan - Tina
Jason Blicker - Paul
Russell Yuen - Hideki
Amy Sloan - Elsa
Shelia McCarthy - Judith
Christian Tessier - Aaron

Crew

Story/Screenplay/Executive Producer/Director - Roland Emmerich

Writer - Jeffrey Nachmanoff

Suggested in Part by the Book "The Coming Global Superstorm" - Art Bell and Whitley Strieber

Associate Producer/First Assistant Director - Kim Winther
Executive Producers - Ute Emmerich

and Stephanie Germain

Executive Producer/Unit Production Manager -

Kelly Van Horn

Producer - Mark Gordon

Co-Producer/Unit Production Manager -

Thomas M. Hammel

Casting Director - April Webster

Production Designer - Barry Chusid

Supervising Art Directors - Claude Paré

and Tom Reta

Art Directors - Martin Gendron,

Michele Laliberte, Réal Proulx,

and Marc Bonin

Set Decorator - Victor J. Zolfo

Costume Designer - Renée April

Special Makeup Effects Supervisor -

Adrian Morot

Director of Photography - Ueli Steiger

Second Assistant Directors: El Paso Unit -

Lars P. Winther and David Footman

Second Unit Director: Splinter Unit/

Visual Effects Director of Photography:

Digital Domain - Anne Foerster

Wolf Trainer - Mark Dumas

Stunt Coordinator: Los Angeles & El Paso -

Charlie Brewer

Stunt Coordinator: Montreal - Brando Racki

Special Effects Supervisor - Neil Corbould

Special Effects Coordinator: Los Angeles Unit -

Al Broussard

Visual Effects Supervisor - Karen E. Goulekas,

Visual Effects Supervisors: ILM - Eric Brevig
and Jim Mitchell

Visual Effects Supervisors: Ring of Fire Studios -

Greg Anderson and Jerry Spivack

Visual Effects Supervisor: The Orphanage -

Remo Balcells

Visual Effects Supervisor: Tweak Films -

Christopher Horvath

Visual Effects Supervisors: Hydraulx -

Colin & Greg Strause

Visual Effects Supervisor: Zoic Studios -

Rocco Passionini

Associate Visual Effects Supervisor: Digital

Domain - Matthew E. Butler

Visual Effects Producer - Mike Chambers

Visual Effects Producer: ILM - Shari Hanson

Visual Effects Producers: Digital Domain -

Todd Isorelit and Julian Levi

Visual Effects Art Director: ILM - Alexander Laurant

Digital Effects Supervisor: Digital Domain -

Bryan Gill

Computer Graphics Supervisors: ILM -

Gregor Lakner and Christopher Townsend

Computer Graphics Supervisors: Digital Domain -

Sean Andrew Faden, David Prescott

and Andrew Waisler

CG Supervisor: Zoic Studios - Andrew Orloff

Animation Supervisor: ILM - Danny Gordon Taylor

Associate Animation Supervisor: ILM - Scott Benza
Motion Capture Lead Engineer - Mike Sanders

Compositing Supervisor: The Orphanage - Ben Grossman

Film Editor - David Brenner

Additional Editors - Peter S. Elliot and

Michael McCusker

Supervising Sound Editors - Larry Kemp

and Mark P. Stoeckinger

Sound Designer: Ice Flow, Flood & Tidal

Wave - Alan Rankin

Sound Designer: L.A. Tornado & Destruction -

Michael Kamper

Sound Designer: Wind, Thunder &

Superfreeze - Ann Scibelli

Sound Designer: Vehicles and Animals -

Randy Kelley

Sound Designer: Superfreeze - Harry Cohen

Sound Mixers - Paul Massey and

Doug Hemphill

Additional Mixer - James Bolt

Foley Artists - Alicia Stevenson and

Dawn Fintor

Music - Harald Kloser

Review

So sorry about it. I didn't have to publish a review every Monday since I got so driven to finish my three movie critiques and ended up having a break. Before New Year's Eve, I'd been unable to find the world-ending feature of 2012 when I was supposed to watch it before writing a critique. I eventually switched to an alternative movie from the same filmmaker when it was released six years before he went on to produce that glorious, over-lengthened disaster epic. THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW isn't one of those doomsday movies made as scientifically accurate. It blends seamlessly with the visual graphics and images that create a world from its climate-changing catastrophe to its big chill.

Many climatologists didn't like how the film that the issues of global warming that caused the endless winter were greatly exaggerated since it has nothing to do with any scientific research. Director Roland Emmerich may not have been an avid believer in science. But he never fails to make this picture suspenseful in the post-9/11 wake and have the temperatures cooled to a maximum.  

Naturally, I did notice a few elements of the movie that might need more work, even the story and character development that needed the most. The acting would be the least of my worries, and it wouldn't matter to such talented movie players that their careers are seemingly unaffected by this film. It doesn't have to fail when you have someone like Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal and soon-to-be-famed newcomer Emmy Rossum when they can only provide the notch of their performances.

I thought that THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW was so good at being a visual spectacle, though it's not supposed to have any scientific patterns. It's a believable film that nearly gives out the impact of the other disaster hits. Even 2012 is darker and more shocking compared to this film and Independence Day. I recommend you watch the movie or rent it now, whether it is your option.

Star rating: (7/10) Good Movie

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