Did they explain the woman he saw in the base? That was just him cracking up right? Someone said it was his daughter

She was an hallucination. I think it is something like schizophrenia; his mind is degenerating in addition to his body.

For the first half of it, I was favorably reminded of some of the good original Star Trek episodes. "Hey lets take a social problem and insert aliens as a cypher to talk about it". Then in the second half it just become a splosion fest. A really cool splosion fest but a splosion fest nonetheless. And much of the dude turning into an alien stuff is right out of "The Fly" remake. And their fuel turns you into one of them? Really?

It would have been better if Denzel was actually a good guy all along or something semi-unexpected. The only reason I thought he might not be crooked is because they worked so hard to make him seem bad.

I like disaster movies where some of the people you care about actually die, instead of making everyone miraculously live.

I like big things being destroyed.

What I didn't like:

1. Three different times we had the airplane trying to get off the runway scenario. On the third time, it got old.

2. Driving the a collapsing skyscraper is absolutely ridiculous. I expect non-reality, but this just went too far.

3. On the first takeoff, why not pull up right away? Why spend another 5 minutes right next to the ground for absolutely no reason?

4. I hate it when everything is suddenly ok in 15 seconds of exposition at the very end. "Oh we were wrong, water is receding fast, a whole continent of people didn't die." Just cheapens the movie. I think it would have been better if it ended uncertainly: we're floating on a vast sea, no end in sight, and we have too many people and not enough supplies. Who knows if we will make it.

5. Forgot his name, but the dad should have died at the climax. It would have made everything more emotionally powerful.


That's all negative stuff, but really I did enjoy it. It was entertaining.