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Directed by Roland Emmerich.
Staring: (from Wikipedia)

• John Cusack as Jackson Curtis, a science fiction book writer who occasionally works as a limousine driver^[14]
• Chiwetel Ejiofor as Adrian Helmsley, scientific advisor to the President^[15]
• Amanda Peet as Kate Curtis, Jackson’s ex-wife^[16]
• Liam James as Noah Curtis, Jackson and Kate’s son
• Morgan Lily as Lilly Curtis, Jackson and Kate’s daughter^[17]
• Thomas McCarthy as Dr. Gordon Silberman, Kate’s current boyfriend and a plastic surgeon.^[18]
• Danny Glover as Thomas Wilson, the President of the United States^[7]
• Thandie Newton as Laura Wilson, the First Daughter^[7]
• Oliver Platt as Carl Anheuser, the President’s Chief of Staff^[7]
• Zlatko Burić as Yuri Karpov, a Russian billionaire
• Beatrice Rosen as Tamara, Yuri’s Russian girlfriend
• Chin Han as Tenzin, a worker in Tibet^[9]
• Osric Chau as Nima, a Buddhist monk and Tenzin’s brother
• Lisa Lu as Grandma Sonam, Nima and Tenzin’s grandmother
• John Billingsley, as Professor Frederic West, an American scientist.
• Johann Urb as Sasha, a Russian pilot
• George Segal as Tony Delgatto, an elderly traveling musician
• Blu Mankuma as Harry Helmsley, Adrian’s father and Tony’s musical partner
• Jimi Mistry as Dr. Satnam Tsurutani, a scientist who helps discover the events that are to come in India.
• Stephen McHattie as Captain Michaels, the captain of the ark.
• Woody Harrelson as Charlie Frost,^[19] a conspiracy theorist disguised as Yellowstone hermit who prophesies the end of the world and is considered crazy by others. Harrelson compared his character to the mythological Greek figure Cassandra, whose predictions were dismissed^[20]

This movie really felt like it was written as it went along. Trying far to hard to add random suspense and climax.
Plane nose dive, plane have no speed, plane get bombarded, Plane navigate through a bunch of crap, plane pull up last second… times three.
Family gets back together, mom kisses ex-husband right after, I mean not even 10 minutes after her boyfriend or current husband died. Not really sure what he was, theynever made it clear except after his role was done, mom said something about dad being better since separated.

Ending is the only place left untouched,by the floods, aids riddled country..
Yeah that’s the place to re-populate.

What happened to the excessive heating of the earth’s core? where is all of the lava? Why is teh sky not covered in ash, I mean the entire country of united states covered in ash, and that’s before seeing Hawaii looking like a hot bubbling earth zit (huge erupted volcano).

The animation was excellent. Explosions are the makings of the ultimate man movie. Cool cars, Had crazy redneck dude, angry Russian dude, Monk guy, French dude, No Hispanic/Latino people except for the mass suicide people and no gang thugs. Really ? No Hispanic people? (central and southern Americas). But isn’t this movie about the Mayan Calendar ?

I will not be adding this Movie to my DVD collection, You would have to give me the blue ray version for me to even consider saving it, I could never see me actually watching it again though.
I do have to say, for the entertainment of watching it for a couple hours, it definitely was worth the money I spent to see it.
But i do not think this movie sold by word of mouth. I think it sold by pure curiosity of what the end of the world would be like, through someone else’s eyes. I also think there where a few things missed, like chaos and corruption of the normal man.
The movie would have been better stretched out in at least two parts to show all of the real deals, not the stuff they skimmed over for time frame and dvd size limits. It really felt like they left a lot out.

Remember these are just my opinions, the probably mean squat to you.