you would have think and give how much this overblown pile of rubbish must have cost and that the budget could have stretch to a decent scriptwriter . instead and they seem to have opt for a bog standard hollywood paint by number disaster movie plot and dialog . the only cliché they seem to have miss be the cute kid . but every other one be there . there the sullen hero and flung together by fate with both his ex wife and estrange father . there the doting dad and the rebellious teenager . there the professor that everyone thought be wrong until it turn out he wasn not ( play appallingly by the normally excellent tom courtney seemingly in the grip of some powerful drug ) and plus the comic duo wander about in the deserted underground railway . i sit down to watch this full of anticipation . the cast be and a noted and amazing . yet within minute it become clear how bad this be go to be . stuff this useless should come with a warning . something along the line of while this film may have be make in britain but be aim at the american market . it therefore contain tired clichés and stock character and stilted dialogue and a plot so lame brain and simplistic that even george w bush could understand it . avoid .