Some of the effects were really great, like part of California being swept into the sea. But when our hero and his family drive a stretch limo and just are able to jump over crumpling roads or barely under falling buildings, it gets stupid and too implausible. When a pilot who has hardly flown takes a twin airplane and narrowly misses one catastrophe after another, the movie loses its suspense. Due to significant lack of plot and minimal character development, I feel this movie is a caricature of better films such as Independence Day. I actually started looking at my watch half way thru the film.