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Title: Another awful Roland Emerich film
Review: Another awful Roland Emerich film with fun special effects (thus making tons of money).As usual, there are lots of stereotypical characters doing stereotypical things against a backdrop of things falling spectacularly apart. Emerich wisely hires very good, engaging actors to embody his cardboard characters so the weaknesses are not nearly as glaring as they wold otherwise be. And really, you can't do better than John Cusack as a sympathetic leading man.Based on the trailers shown before the film when I saw it, the marketing folks know without a doubt that this movie is going to bring in the lowest-common-denominator suckers to pitch their other by-the-numbers comedy and action films to.
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