Chimpcheng
19-Nov-2009, 06:59 AM
If you're anything like me (you should hope to God that you're not) then you're a fan of sweet loving. Now, if there's one thing that comes close to sweet loving in terms of brilliance, it's apocalyptic devastation, and 2012 shovels it on.
The films main premise is that the ancient Mayans were correct and that on December 21st 2012 (the 2012 phenomenon), the world as we know it will come to an end.
Cue worldwide destruction, beginning with huge solar flares, cracks appearing in roads, boiling water, lakes disappearing and eventually the shifting of the entire worlds tectonic plates and magnetic poles. Basically, all the good stuff from Revelation but minus the angels and trumpets.
If you like disaster movies, then there's no better disaster movie than this. You got people being shanked by falling debris, buildings collapsing, planes falling out of the skies, ships being wrecked, car chases, it's 'Armageddon', 'Titanic', 'The Posiden Adventure', 'The Day After Tomorrow' and John Cusack all rolled into one and multiplied by 100.
Like all Emmerich movies you get a mix of spectacular and not so great special effects, lots of pensive looking up into the skies, people across the world praying, the worlds governments uniting to fight for the fate of mankind and dramatic "stirring" speeches.
If you enjoy big, dumb, Hollywood blockbusters then this is for you, leave your brain in the car and just enjoy it at the cinema (I can't imagine this movie being watchable on a TV screen).
For everyone else, it's overlong, quite taxing and might leave you with a bad head.
If the Mayans are correct, and why wouldn't they be?, then we're in for a rocky ride come December 21st 2012 - Merry Christmas for then... :D
3/5 Stars
The films main premise is that the ancient Mayans were correct and that on December 21st 2012 (the 2012 phenomenon), the world as we know it will come to an end.
Cue worldwide destruction, beginning with huge solar flares, cracks appearing in roads, boiling water, lakes disappearing and eventually the shifting of the entire worlds tectonic plates and magnetic poles. Basically, all the good stuff from Revelation but minus the angels and trumpets.
If you like disaster movies, then there's no better disaster movie than this. You got people being shanked by falling debris, buildings collapsing, planes falling out of the skies, ships being wrecked, car chases, it's 'Armageddon', 'Titanic', 'The Posiden Adventure', 'The Day After Tomorrow' and John Cusack all rolled into one and multiplied by 100.
Like all Emmerich movies you get a mix of spectacular and not so great special effects, lots of pensive looking up into the skies, people across the world praying, the worlds governments uniting to fight for the fate of mankind and dramatic "stirring" speeches.
If you enjoy big, dumb, Hollywood blockbusters then this is for you, leave your brain in the car and just enjoy it at the cinema (I can't imagine this movie being watchable on a TV screen).
For everyone else, it's overlong, quite taxing and might leave you with a bad head.
If the Mayans are correct, and why wouldn't they be?, then we're in for a rocky ride come December 21st 2012 - Merry Christmas for then... :D
3/5 Stars