Review of The Day After Tomorrow DVD by
lil_lepo
taken from ciao.co.uk
Advantages Special Effects and pace of the movie
Disadvantages story and character development
...it for their childrens children and so on and so forth. As the weather begins to change dramatically around the world, melon size hail stones killing on the streets of Tokyo and numerous hurricanes around Hawaii, Adrian Hall is the man to discover that his model is correct to the goings on around the globe – ONLY HUNDREDS OF YEARS TOO SOON! He confirms that a global super storm of hurricanes, hail stones, snow, tidal waves and freezing temperatures will continue to bring along an Ice-Age within a matter of weeks.
Behind the scenes of this catastrophe, Halls soon Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) is attending a competition for his school in New York City. The global super storm has already begun and was starting to wipe out the population in Canada and there was only a matter of time before the Northern States of America were hit – including New York City. The idea...
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7/22/2004
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Review of Shock Wave - Clive Cussler by
pdoyle007
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Advantages Excellent Emotive Story
Disadvantages Later Novels Haven't Lived Up
...source of diamonds and the descendants of these survivers have grown into a billionarie family.
The story focuses on the head of this family who is using a sonic drill to collect even more diamonds to flood the market and make himself a personal fortune. However the sonic waves produced are killing wildlife and fisherman. Pitt gets involved when NUMA realise the next innocent target won't be a random island, but Hawaii.
To give away any more of the plot would be unfair the the story really is very gripping. As well as the action and the amazing survival (in this case from a hurrican and a shipwreck) the aspect of this story I loved most was the romance. In the novels Pitt always gets a girl and a few are regular characters. However this is only the second time he actually falls in love and it's nice to see the change and emotion in his...
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1/18/2005
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