Scholars and everyday people have long wondered why the Mayan calendar suddenly ends on 12/21/12. Director Roland Emmerich imagines a world torn apart by global catastrophe - earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis - and a group of people who dare to survive and try to stop the events before they wipe out all of humanity.
R. Emmerich usually entertains me, but not this time. The movie is very similar to day after tomorrow, so the inpact of de CGI is lesser than what i would have expected. Way too long. Not a good movie at all.
How can an end of the world, global catastrophe movie be so dull! The action that was there was so-so and it jumped around from character to character for over two hours. Cheesy, dull and not worth a look.
TheReviewer 11/14/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)
Rating of 3/4
2012 is a special effects extravaganza that I found enjoyable with likable characters and a believable plot. However, Emmerich's inexperience with screenwriting surely is displayed upon the screen.
2012 works like this: It's a disaster movie, and also, the movie is a disaster. Its about spectacle, and the build up is slightly longer than it should be but it works in that entertaining sort of way, and then the event happens...and it's great, a good fun scene full of joyous special effects and loud bangs and clangs, children screaming and people running, but then the first money scene ends and the fun just...stops. What happens for the rest of the movie is the build up, then an action scene, a build up, another action scene, a build up etc etc. We get characters who we do not care about (through by the numbers dialogue) talking about lives we do not care about. And this goes on and on and on until my brain literally turned to mush and i spent the rest of the two and a half hour durati...
I'm a sucker for a good disaster movie and this was a good disaster movie. The whole 2012...Mayan calender thing is just there to grab people's attention and give a reason for the global disaster. I liked this movie. I can't help it.......it was like a bunch of different disaster movies rolled into one. What more could you want? There were earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, huge fires, floods and some in the air excitement involving an airplane. I know people are saying that the story lines weren't very deep..and I suppose that's true enough, but it didn't matter to me...I was drawn in by the action and disasters. The special effects were fantastic. This movie completely kept my attention. Like I said...I love good disaster movies. I was seeing Airport, The Posiedon Adve...
"2012" has been talked about for a while now since it's only 3 years away. So it is naturally fit to make a movie about the destruction of mankind in 2012. Well, there is no one probably more fitting to helm this film than disaster movie director, Roland Emmerich. While he has regain is footing and made a much better film than his last two efforts, he still can escape his own pitfalls that have hurt some of previous films. The thing Emmerich does so well is destroying the world, and boy does he do it here! "2012" contains some jaw-dropping, top notch diasaster scenes that are worth seeing just for them. What Emmerich doesn't so well is his attention to character developement and a story as powerful as the disasters. Emmerich tries here with the story and its characters but in end the film...
