Four years after his last effort - 2000's The Patriot - director Roland Emmerich returns with a big -
budget disaster flick.
Not exact matches
Actor Dwayne Johnson returns to the big screen with the newest
disaster flick San Andreas, a film that will no doubt continue Johnson's string of high
budget, low payoff films that have plagued his career Read More →
is based on a rather unsavory series of trading cards released by Topps in the 1950s, and it takes its cues from the same sources as this summer's Independence Day — old alien invasion
flicks,
disaster movies, and big -
budget special effects extravaganzas.
The reality, however, is that this is still nothing more than a big -
budget Hollywood studio
disaster flick about gargantuan genetically mutated animals destroying Chicago, and trying to say the picture is more than that would just be a waste of breath.
The Day After Tomorrow, the latest big -
budget SF
disaster flick, broaches — or stumbles over — the issue of global warming, or what I prefer to call Bush weather, a topic that's surely worthy of some reflection.
With a
budget of $ 120 million, the
disaster flick really had to impress during its debut... and that wasn't at all the case.