So you say you want a disaster movie. Well, boy, I have a movie for you to be the mother of all disasters.
This does not mean 2012 is a bad film. This is actually reasonable and entertaining film. Long on special effects, but unfortunately, hokieness too long (if that is even a word). And for a long time in 2 hours and 38 minutes, which is about an hour too long, give or take a disaster or two. 2012 is just one disaster after another until it left the film to the end of breath and hoping that in fact some air left in our world to breathe.
2012, which was directed by Roland Emmerich as the pinball routing is corny and contrived. "B" movie disguised as "A" film extravaganza. It is melodramatic in a funny sort of way. Predicted, but somewhat enjoyable, if you do not mind the unnatural dialogue, and less than believable plot line medium. If it was manufactured as a "B" movies with lesser known actors, this film could have become something of a bright spot.
2012 sadly short on even the slightest bit of uncertainty about what will happen next. I actually sat back and said what will happen in the next minute film, even to the point where I knew the mistress of the big, bad Russian billionaire is going to shoot him the finger because he sneaked out of the survival case (yes, there is actually 3 survival ARKS) while he was stranded outside.
The film begins in 2009, when a scientist Dr Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) travels to India to discover from fellow scientists that the Earth's core temperature rises very quickly, he rushes back to America, and the fund raiser, he accosts White House Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser, played brilliantly always reliable Oliver Platt, and his hands work that basically say the world as we know it is going to end, probably in 2012, because that's when some of the ancient Mayan calendar says it will end, 21st December 2012, to be precise. Anahauser informs U.S. President Thomas Wilson (Danny Clover, who played the entire film with a view of shock and disbelief. Morgan Freeman is a lot better) than the dire circumstances. By 2010, the United States and leaders of 46 countries begin a massive, secret project to build several "ARKS" to ensure the survival of the human race.
They decided that only 400,000 people will be able to fit on the ARKS, which is built on Cho Ming, Tibet in the Himalayas. In order to finance the ARKS, without tipping off the normal citizens of the world, they decided to sell these sites for a billion seats. Well guess who will survive the coming disaster. Not people like you or me, of course, but only the leaders of the world, their staff, scientists involved in the project, a thousand billionaire and wind-bags from dozens of countries.
Enter Jackson Curtis (John Cusak) in 2012, science fiction writer who wrote a book of only 500 copies that were sold, one of which is, surprisingly, etc. Helmsley, who carries the book around with it as a pet rock. . Talk about non-credibility. Curtis has also failed as a writer, he now drives limo for Russian billionaire Russian (Zlatko Buric), which was without the knowledge of Curtis, he bought a few places on the ark, for himself, his annoying brat two sons, and his pilot (Johann Urb), and his girlfriend Tamara (Beatrice Rosen), who is secretly banging his pilots. For animal lovers, Tamara is constantly clutching a tiny dog in her arms, which leads to predictable "oh please save a small dog from destruction" scene. (Insert cheer here)
Enter Jackson Curtis (John Cusak) in 2012, science fiction writer who wrote a book of only 500 copies that were sold, one of which is, surprisingly, etc. Helmsley, who carries the book around with it as a pet rock. . Talk about non-credibility. Curtis has also failed as a writer, he now drives limo for Russian billionaire Russian (Zlatko Buric), which was without the knowledge of Curtis, he bought a few places on the ark, for himself, his annoying brat two sons, and his pilot (Johann Urb), and his girlfriend Tamara (Beatrice Rosen), who is secretly banging his pilots. For animal lovers, Tamara is constantly clutching a tiny dog in her arms, which leads to predictable "oh please save a small dog from destruction" scene. (Insert cheer here)
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Curtis arrives, hate, of course, to his children on a camping trip in Yellowstone Park, where they meet Charlie Frost (Woody Harrelson), panic hippie who does a daily radio show, which predicts the end of the world. He talks about Curtis Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, which says we are all finito 21st December 2012. Curtis initially thought Charlie was a little bats in the belfry, but relented after Charlie showed him a draft for the ark, and the image of government officials from around the world who are killed because they found out about the end of the world, and the ark, and were about to warn the rest of us peons.
Curtis rushing home with their children and tried to say Kate and Gordon abut the upcoming disaster. Before you can say that Curtis is crazy, the house begins to fall apart and everyone rushed to Curtis cars. So begins the crazy car chase, where Curtis' car being chased by the city of Pasadena shooting behind them. They rush to a small private plane that Curtis just rented and Gorden engineers take off very shakily. Then, as Bob and weave through the fall of the buildings and bridges safe. But not for long.
This is the beginning of a disaster in another. Too many to innumerate. Cities crumble like dust and tidal waves destroyed the national znamenitosti.Zgodnih is where a tsunami destroys Washington DC, and the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, carried out on the waves, personally led the White House. (The damage was not occupied by today's inhabitants .)
Obviously 2012 is not Oscar material. No, it does not take you on a wild ride, which is quite pleasant if you do not care too much land is full of holes so it does not hold water as a top flight film.
I'll give the 2012 half past two stars out of five stars. Just because the special effects look doozy.
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