While the cinema in the Plaza Indonesia (a shopping mall immensely larger than the one I live in) has eleven screens, they chose to allocate seven of them to be able to show a certain vampire drama for teenagers in fifteen minute intervals. As such, choices were limited and the director to bring me back in front of the silver screen AFTER FOUR MONTHS turned out to be not Quentin Tarantino, not Wes Anderson, but Roland Emmerich.

A rare alignment of planets leads to unusually strong solar flares, causing the Earth's crust to become dislodged and shift around. Emmerich follows up Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow with an even more thorough destruction of our planet. If he intends to top it in the future, he will have to blow it up entirely. Emmerich has assembled a very likable cast of actors, but unfortunately he also demonstrates that action sequences can be overdone. There is only so many times in a single movie that you need to see an airplane take off from a world that is falling away under it. In addition to being repetitive and ridiculously overblown, the constant assault also violates the premise that an action movie should build towards a climax.

5 points