A lot of people have been looking forward to this film for a long time. I am one of them. As soon as I saw the posters I though "I really want to go see that." So, several weeks later, a day after it came out, I did. I walked in with high expectations (a great cast, good director) but came out slightly dissapointed.

The plot is very, very simple. Some weird things have been happening with the weather; huge drops in water temperature, freak storms, hailstones bigger than a man's fist. Climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quade) thinks that there will be another ice-age comming whithin 100 - 1000 years. He has to try and convince the vice-president Becker (Kenneth Welsh) that something needs to be done about it. Then all of a sudden, it's not 100 - 1000 years, it's 68 weeks. In fact, no, screw that, it's going to happen in about 48 hours. Yes, in just 48 hours the whole northern hemisphere will become covered in ice.

Sounds good? Don't get too excited. The script is utter balls. Most of the acting is rigid and lifeless. And, unlike all the good disaster movies, the idea doesn't scare you. If it was well directed (and a plausible idea) you would be sitting in the cinema shitting yourself because you can see a 50 foot wall of water sweeping over New York (typically). But you don't. You sit there and watch people run away and you feel nothing. The film does nothing for you. There are no times when you feel frail, excited or tense. You just watch it. It's entertaining, but not thrilling or exciting.

Other than that, it's great, go see it.