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Reviews Counted:199
Fresh:74
Rotten:125
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: Roland Emmerich's 2012 provides plenty of visual thrills, but lacks a strong enough script to support its massive scope and inflated length.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release:Nov 13, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $108,131,263
Synopsis: Roland Emmerich has given movie watchers several apocalyptic films in the past in INDEPENDENCE DAY and THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, and he offers another look at the end of the world in 2012. This... [More]
Starring: John Cusack, Chjwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt
Director: Roland Emmerich
2012 is so long, and its special effects are at once so outrageous and so thunderously predictable, that by the time I lurched from the theatre I felt that three years had actually passed and that the apocalypse was due any second.
It was your average D Day film with all the bells and whistles and while many will enjoy it, it could have been better.
2012's cutting-edge CGI special-effects technology combine with the campy failings of the worst of the 1950's B-movies making for an unlikely comedy of disaster-epic proportions.
After the deplorable 'Day After Tomorrow' I wasn't expecting much, but this is an entertaining movie with mind-boggling special effects.
With a planet sized disaster film, there are nation sized holes to pick at if you choose, but there's a world of fun to be had if you sit back and let the destruction wash over you in this fantastical, mind blowing visual feast.
A boring, stupid, overlong, obnoxious, soulless piece of Hollywood "product."
Spectacular special effects and one of the dumbest screenplays of the year.
2012 is a fun ride, so long as you don't think about how silly it all is.
Primal, not tactful
Emmerich doesn't mess around when intent on messing up the world for good. But his pop apocalypse multiplying man's worst fears, always goes down easy with a side order of popcorn. Apocalypse Wow.
An eye-popping, insult to the intelligence strictly for the kiddies and crackpot doomsday enthusiasts.
It's pointless to fault '2012' for being silly or perpetuating scientific and historic baloney. Instead, the new movie's unforgivable transgression is that it fails to make any of the apocalyptic destruction fun.
Amazing special effects assume the starring role here, but cast members also deserve recognition for adding a humanistic touch to this over-the-top disaster movie.
There's a dash of Tibetan mysticism, a soupcon of comeuppances, and one family discovering what is really important. Take it for what it is and leave logic to fend for itself
...2012's relentless emphasis on destruction ensures that most viewers will inevitably walk away satisfied.
The movie never takes its foot off the accelerator, leaving the viewer with little time to breathe. You will be sorry if you have to take a bathroom break.
Throw in bits and pieces from all other disaster movies, up the global destruction ante, turn on the waterworks (literally and figuratively) and you've got 2012.
There's a calamity far greater than the disintegration of the Earth's core that dooms the film '2012,' it's a lesser known phenomenon that most disaster films are smart enough to steer away from ... the magic of 'star power.'
Despite gasp worthy special effects, '2012' clunks along with yakety, cliched speeches and a familiar aka cliched plot that taps into virtually every disaster flick ever produced.
The Ron Jeremy of disaster porn.
November 15, 2009:
Box Office Guru Wrapup: 2012 Destroys the Competition
This weekend Audiences were warned - by Mayans and film critics alike - but moviegoers around the world still flooded the multiplexes to see Roland Emmerich's latest disaster... More...
November 14, 2009:
Emmerich doesn't mess around when intent on messing up the world for good. But his pop apocalypse multiplying man's worst fears, always goes down easy with a side order of popcorn. Apocalypse Wow.
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November 13, 2009:
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November 13, 2009:
Roland Emmerich Talks 2012 DVD/Blu-ray, Shakespeare Project, and More
Roland Emmerich is poised to destroy the world -- and rule the box office -- one more time with this weekend's release of "2012." What's next for Emmerich? Shakespeare. More...
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