Went to see this today. Had read a review that said it was “half a good disaster movie”, which is unfortunately rather accurate: the last half is mostly concerned with the usual improbable father-crosses continent-to-find-son story. I did like it, though. The effects were incredible – cloud formations and water action – and the story was not as bad as it could have been. I hope it also makes at least some people stop and think, about two things: global warming (no idea whether the theories proposed in the film are even wildly valid or not, but the point still holds), and ‘first-world’ attitudes to ‘third-world’ countries.

It is, anyway, one that could possibly go on the ‘help! the world is about to end’ list, particularly because there is nothing humans can do about it in this case.