Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.
It's the first futuristic disaster movie that's as cute as a button. Which, when all the special effects blow over, is what we Americans like in a monster hit.
– Lisa Schwarzbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Mar 2008
fresh:
If I were a 10-year-old boy, I'd probably think it was the coolest movie going.
– David Ansen,
Newsweek,
5 Mar 2008
fresh:
As unavoidably entertaining as it is hopelessly cornball.
– Todd McCarthy,
Variety,
5 Mar 2008
rotten:
Maybe the moviemakers' mission was to boldly go where everyone in Hollywood has gone before: the bank.