…Or Let There Be Disaster
Let’s admit: it is hard to be a God in the 21st century. After all, mankind has survived everything by the turn of the millennium. Human life on Earth did not come to an end, despite the revengeful efforts of our nature-goddess Gaia, or despite those various forces of outer space, whether they were in the form of a meteor storm or an alien invasion. What can a poor Hollywood script-writer do? Let’s just go and destroy the whole planet Earth and humans altogether with the aid of our latest CGI! Sounds cool, eh?
I had no great expectations to go and sit in a “disaster movie”, but this film well succeeded in descending even below those disastrous depths I was prepared for. All I wanted was to see a film, where all this nuisance we call Earth and humankind would finally and irrecoverably get eradicated. Instead, I was foolishly self-sentenced to two and a half hours of audio-visual torture by some script-generator of our ever-so-angelic film industry.
But let’s save you from spoilers, though I doubt there would be any. We have seen the same boring plot countless times before in the cheapest B-movies – presented in more interesting ways. And we enjoyed them without the disturbing “politically correct” über-garnish so typical of Hollywood. First, there is the ever-present silly depiction of our typical oh-so-lovable American family. The “Wise and Old President of the United States” is now necessarily as black as ebony (but he’s still the man). Then, interestingly, there is a helpful People’s Republic of China. Only those poor Russians did not go through any plastic surgery: they have been evil and ugly ever since the cold war (and they still do not have a shave).
At least we can’t say there’s no disaster happening. There is. Hopefully, they will release a proper director’s cut version one day, just to do away with the drooling background plot of two hours, and keep the spectacular scenes of about half an hour.