As you might expect with director Roland Emmerich, the movie isn’t a patch on the trailer.
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11/13/09
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2012 (2009)
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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
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Reviews for 2012
Despite the frenetic action scenes, the movie sags, done in by multiple story lines that undercut one another and by the heaviness of its conceit.
11/13/09
Why does Roland Emmerich enjoy killing off humanity?
11/13/09
Even if most of the Earth were to be destroyed by a natural cataclysm predicted long ago by the ancient Mayans, director Roland Emmerich would surely survive, if only to crawl back and polish off what little was left.
11/13/09
It is as if screenwriters Roland Emmerich, who also directed, and Harald Kloser simply screened earlier films and borrowed bits and pieces.
11/13/09
2012 is straight ahead smash the world to smithereens while a cadre of characters placed in soap opera situations deliver unintentionally laughable lines.
11/13/09
Fundamentally terrible, but almost irresistibly entertaining. Its horrors get a tad monotonous in the mid-section, but it’s still a value-for-money hoot.
11/13/09
Congratulations, John Cusack! You star in the worst movie of the year!
11/13/09
Bigger, louder, crazier and more wildly exhilarating than anything previously attempted.
11/13/09
...Roland Emmerich has done it again - he has delivered a movie that can pass for either a sunny atrocity or a brilliant black joke.
11/13/09
It's the end of the world as escapism. It's an event movie. It's daft. The visual effects are amazing. See it on a big screen.
11/13/09
You don't get off a rollercoaster and complain about the lack of storytelling.
11/13/09
The scenes of destruction composed by Emmerich's team--earthquakes, tsunamis, rains of earth and fire--have an enveloping majesty; they transcend mere expensive photorealism and cross over into art.
11/13/09
2012, a near three-hour movie built entirely out of special effects set pieces and join-the-dots characterisation.
11/13/09
The latest end-of-the-world effort from director Roland Emmerich, who there but for the grace of God goes Michael Bay.
11/13/09
160 minutes of this nonsense is at least 90 minutes of back story too many.
11/13/09
The audience paid for money shots, and money shots are what they get.
11/13/09
The crowning achievement in Emmerich's long, profitable career as a destroyer of worlds.
11/13/09
Emmerich's vision of global huddling and new-dawn optimism has a harebrained naivety you almost want to treasure, but that's this idiot behemoth of a film all over: dim, dim, dim, and so absurdly overscaled that we're not supposed to mind.
11/13/09
Packages the disaster-happy director's greatest hits into one cataclysmic picture.
11/13/09
Latest News for 2012
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:
Friday Harvest: Clash of the Titans, Kick-Ass, and more!
Happy Friday Harvest, a weekly round-up of the best pictures, posters, and videos that have become available for viewing/download on Rotten Tomatoes. Each section features the... More...
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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