Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world.
This movie contains 31 potentially triggering events.
SPOILER - a woman is sealed into a chamber with rising water and puts her dog in the next chamber over to allow the dog to survive. The dog is swimming and in distress.
When choosing to open the doors to let other's in. Gaslighting about "not saving them because they don't have enough supplies...it's in God's hands blah blah".
I mean technically, arguably, yes. Police in London are shown on horseback while shutting down the Olympic games. Given that anyone/anything/any animal that does not make it onto one of the ships does not make it, it can be implicitly inferred that the horses depicted in London did not survive. Their deaths are not depicted, though.
There are no dragons in this move, pairs of real animals such as Giraffes, Elephants and Rhinos are shown to have been saved and been brought aboard the ARKs (how many species are saved is unspecified).
It is heavily implied an entire body is crushed (including head) between mechanical gears towards the very end of the movie, but it is not graphically shown.
1. Yuri sacrifices himself to save his sons, knowingly resulting in his death.
2. The President chooses not to board the plane where he would have survived, and instead stays behind knowing the destruction to come will likely end in his death.
Though not explicitly stated for the characters, the age difference between the actors of Yuri and Tamara is 24 years. At the time of the film’s release he was 56 and she was 32. However, there is no sexual scenes between them.
A main character briefly drives past someone holding a sign by the road that reads “the end is near”, it could be argued they appear homeless but it is not explicitly depicted.
The main characters’ plane safely crash lands, everyone except the pilot having already evacuated. The plane tips over the edge of the mountain and crashes, killing the pilot.