The Day After Tomorrow

THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW (2004) - June 14, 2004
A decent disaster movie. The movie features some excellent special effects, and good performances from Jake Gyllenhaal and Dennis Quaid, but is otherwise unmemorable. I guess one of the main problems was that there weren't enough characters, and the few characters that were there were bland and uninteresting, or simply played-out cliches (the scrappy hobo! the wacky best friend! the the aging mentor! the romantic interest whose sole reason to exist is to be the romantic interest). Quaid and Gyllenhaal were both really good, but there's only so much a good actor can do before the weaknesses of the script start to show. It also didn't help that the movie was too long, and dragged in parts -- though it was never boring. Unlike another too-long movie I just saw... **1/2