Roland Emmerich is a director specialised in large-scale disaster and science-fiction films, from the alien invasion spectacle of Independence Day to apocalyptic scenarios like The Day After Tomorrow and 2012. I have reviewed 3 of his films on the site so far.
Rating: 3.0★
There's a very specific flavour to early 2000s blockbusters, and The Day After Tomorrow is basically the purest distillation of it. Watching Roland Emmerich's climate disaster epic now, 22 years on, is a genuinely strange experience. Not bad strange, not good strange. Just strange. Like finding
Genre Action
★★★ — Independence Day (1996)
Genre Action
★★★½ — Stargate (1994)
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