It was full of the usual self-congratulatory Holywood nonsense one would expect. It is almost macabre, how the film manages to adhere so closely to the set story-line that our top film makers have been using for the past half-century. Acclaimed Cameron doesn't even leave the Titanic storyboard, so popular is the script: a disaster movie with a bittersweet ending, a love story, an ethical element about choosing who should die and who should live, the deaths of important people, a class friction element, the failure to save the whole, but enough people surviving to continue the spirit of it all. It is almost a feat of mastery that Cameron manages to reproduce his only cinema hit again 14 years later.
The graphics were good though.
One scene I enjoyed in particular. Two world leaders decide not to be saved. One is the US President, who bravely stays at the White House, which has been opened as a hospital and shelter. He is killed when the USS John F Kennedy lands on top of his former home, but thankfully he explained earlier how daunting the prospect of being the last US President actually is.
The other world leader not to attend the salvation of earth was the Italian Prime Minister, who like the present incumbent, was hit in the face by a church. However, the fictional character was crushed to death by Michaelangelo's dome which topples and rolls over the piazza in front of St Peter's. The Pope himself - who didn't get a ticket I might add - was at the time granting general absolution unto the plebs below from the loggia, was thrust from the balcony to his death. The College of Cardinals were praying on their knees in the Sistine Chapel as the ceiling begins to crack and the building falls in on itself. What a glorious way to go - crushed by the Last Judgement.
Fortunately, enough people manage to get to Mount Everest and escape the rising waters, and re-found, Noahesque, humanity in a perfect, planned society, with James Cameron at its head.
Here is the trailer:
