| Meanwhile, his son Sam is with friends in New York City to attend an event | New York City is devastated as are other major cities all over Europe |
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| How can he fail you for being smarter than he is? There are no sad-ass moments like this here | government launches full-scale evacuations Jack—snowshoes in tow—heads north to save his son Sam who is holed up with some friends inside the Manhattan Public Library burning books much to the dismay of the librarian to keep warm |
Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.
3| to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age | But what he does not know is that this event will trigger a massive climate shift that will affect the world population |
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| I hope not at all, but the director made the film so that it seems very real and like something that MIGHT happen | Even more impressive are the shots of Manhattan being swallowed up by an inconceivable tidal wave followed by shots of a Russian freighter hulking down Fifth Avenue |
Action is the film's primary objective, but Emmerich also uses a lot of humanity in what his character's motivations are, and I for one, enjoyed seeing that side of humanity rather than what I probably would see under similar circumstances.
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