A team led by Pete (Matt Walsh) are filming the tornado. Gary (Richard Armitage) along with Allison (Sarah Wayne Callies) rescues his son Donnie and a friend Katlyn. After an incident, Pete’s team feel he is more concerned about collecting data than ensuring his team’s safety. Realising that the school’s storm shelter is inadequate, citizens board school buses to flee the advancing storm. Some people who got cut off from the retreat due to a fallen transmission tower take shelter in a storm drain. To save their lives, Pete sacrifices himself. After the tornado subsides, the people begin to clean up and rebuild their battered homes. The visually dazzling found footage meteorological disaster film depicting large-scale devastation was a financial success.
After realising that the temperature at the Earth’s core is rapidly increasing, international leaders begin a secret project to build enormous arks, capable of carrying 100,000 people each from Tibet. Tickets are priced for €1 billion per person. To make ends meet, struggling sci-fi writer Jackson (John Cusack) works as a chauffeur for billionaire Yuri. Even as earthquakes begin, Jackson returns home to rescue his former wife Kate and their children and in a spectacular SFX scene their plane takes off just as the entire city tips in to the ocean. The ark is set adrift and Jackson and Kate reconcile. The sci-fi ‘mother of all disaster movies’ about events that were supposed to unfold in 2012, was 28th highest-grossing film outside North America.
A flood coinciding with a high tide strikes London. Met Office’s head Keith believed it would head towards Holland even though Professor Leonard (Tom Courtenay) had said it would reach London. With just three hours to go, millions of civilians are evacuated. Rob (Robert Carlyle) and his ex-wife Sam (Jessalyn Gilsig) contact Leonard who believes that the water flow can be reversed back out of London. But controls to the Thames barrier are now underwater. The person who tries to activate them may not survive so while Rob and Sam are deciding which of them should go, Leonard dives in and activates the barrier’s controls before dying. The barrier is lowered and the water flows back out of London. The computer generated visual effects of flooded London were well shot.
Jennifer (Emmy Rossum) and her boyfriend Christian (Mike Vogel) are to be engaged but her father Robert (Kurt Russell) is unsure. Dylan develops feelings for Maggie and her son Connor. During a party, a 150-foot high rogue wave hits the Poseidon, causing it to capsize and kills most of the passengers on the decks. From the ballroom a small group of surviving passengers try to make their way through hazards such as fire and water to escape through the propeller tube. One by one the survivors begin dying and Robert dies so that the others may survive. Christian, Jennifer, Nelson, Maggie, Dylan and Connor get into an inflatable raft as Poseidon sinks and rescue helicopters arrive. The film holds a Guinness World Record for having the most detailed CG model in a film.
Desperate for money, fishing boat Andrea Gail’s Captain Billy (George Clooney), convinces his crew to join him on one more fishing trip. They head to the Flemish Cap where their luck seems to improve. After their ice machine breaks they have a choice to return to shore before their catch gets spoilt but they decide to brave out the storm. The boat loses its antenna, hit by a rogue wave it capsizes and while Billy goes down with it, the rest of the crew are trapped and Bobby (Mark Wahlberg), without a life jacket, sees the boat go under. There are no survivors and Bobby’s wife reads the eulogy at the memorial service. The biographical disaster drama film with impressive special effects about the boat which sank after being hit by the Perfect Storm of 1991 was a huge BO success.
