I hate these stupid end of the world movies and I got sucked into one! Go figure.
I had seen this one before and was mildly interested when it came on cable. One thing I kept thinking about was that this is YET ANOTHER example of how movie companies do movie-after-movie of the SAME THING - this is a reincarnation of "Armageddon" and other doomsday movies.
Ironically, unlike "Groundhog Day", in this movie the weatherman really DOES save the day. A weather researcher basically predicts when the world is going to slip into another ice age. We watch, helpless, as people drift away, die horrible deaths and cling bravely to hope that does not exist. Jake Gyllenhaal is a nice surprise as "Sam" - college-attending son of the weather guy.
Sam manages to grab a few people who are willing to listen to him (because he is smart by proxy?) and he organizes a group of individuals who make it through the crazy climate shifts to the end - and out the other side.
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