November 21, 2009
Really enthralling story. It keeps you fixated from start to finish. Loved it!
John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton
An academic researcher leads a group of people in a fight to counteract the apocalyptic events that were predicted by the ancient Mayan calendar.
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November 21, 2009Dont really care for disaster movies, and this was no exception, and despite the Star power, it was just a mess of CGI and a bad script.
What is with these doomsday movies?? I thought The Day After Tommorrow would be the last, but alas I was wrong... and here we are again with ...( read more) -
November 20, 2009Ok, I don't expect much more from Roland Emmerich than a bunch of stuff getting destroyed. He's good at it and that's about all he's good at.
Just like how with Michael Bay I expect big explosions, shiny cars and hot actors/-resses. And nothing more.
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November 19, 2009Spoiler warning!!
This film was abit misleading I discovered at the end, I thought everyone was gonna leave the earth in a spacecraft for deep space, it turns out it was just an ark to sail on the ocean, strange seeing how you are lead to believe the earth is gonna virtually imp...( read more) -
November 19, 2009This felt like a near-repeat of "Poseidon" from a few years ago...Found myself wishing it would end, but it just kept going and going and going. There were also a few goofy moments scattered throughout that just didn't work for me. Also, I can only watch asphalt crack and plane...( read more)
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Critic Reviews
November 16, 2009
A.O. Scott, At the Movies
November 16, 2009
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
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... full review
November 13, 2009
Edward Havens, FilmJerk.com
Why does Roland Emmerich enjoy killing off humanity? full review
November 13, 2009
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
This oafish epic about the End of Days -- as predicted by the Mayan calendar -- operates in a dead zone roughly equidistant between parody and idiocy. full review
November 13, 2009
Claudia Puig, USA Today
The movie is an undeniable visual spectacle, but just as unequivocally a cheesy, ridiculous story. full review
November 13, 2009
Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times
Roland Emmerich is an apocalypse chef. In 2012 he cooks America till it boils, adding live meat to the process at judicious intervals. full review
November 12, 2009
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Beware 2012, which works the dubious miracle of almost matching Transformers 2 for sheer, cynical, mind-numbing, time-wasting, money-draining, soul-sucking stupidity. full review
November 12, 2009
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
The effects are expensive-looking and impressive enough while you're watching them, although whatever awe they inspire doesn't last long: When you've seen one Washington Monument fall to bits, you've ... full review
November 12, 2009
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
People talk about "formula" almost always as a pejorative, but formulas get to be formulas because they work, and there's something to be said for a formula picture done almost to perfection. full review
November 12, 2009
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Films of this sort are plotted shish kebab style: disaster, change of scenery, new disaster. But on the level of spectacle, 2012 is top-notch. full review
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November 19, 2009Wow. It sounds a little bit idiotic in my mind... I don't know. One of my friends was on MSN with me while watching this and was telling me how bad it was and how much he hated it and almost laughed because it was so ridiculous.
"OF COURSE SOME RELIGIOUS LADY TELLS EVERYONE TO GO TO A TEMPLE! THE WORLD'S ENDING OF COURSE THAT'S GOING TO HELP!"
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November 15, 2009first off yes very good effects has you on the edge of your seat....but the hole reason i hated this film is because 1 just the media and fear mongers alone have struck fear into so many peoples hearts especially children that are worried about the end of the world and then this? a major block buster? just for amusement? hollywood is starting to loose all sense of morality....my 7 year old brother came home from school scared about this topic.....roland emmerich should be ashamed and if this does happen kick his ass off the boat take care
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November 15, 2009This year's wonderful mega block buster movie and the only movie i can say and i can point out by arguing with the whole world cinema is this film 2012... What a production and what a roles for everyone who acted and what kinda joints between the roles into the whole film... They started this film in India and by that way am really proud to see this film because its my country... and They finishes it by showing only Africa and it made me to think about the world's reconstructions by the nature... wow it was tremendous effort for the whole unit who worked in this film and there was a thin back line tag story into this film and that is the LOVE AMONG HUMANITY...It was a great feel to watch this movie in big screen and yes they have shown the masters destruction all among the world... wow the Tsunami and the earth quakes the volcano's wow wow wow the spaceships that was great and i was speechless when i see this movie with my friends in the big screen it hit the whole audience as those destruction's comes into the theater it was the real feelings to watch this kinda picture the digital sounds and graphics have been used as masters and it never been seemed that they used graphics because the airplanes the whole city and the whole world they have shown in such a wonderful way... Thanks and i salute to all those who have taken much efforts to make this film out to the universe and thanks to the producers and the director Rolland Emmerich he proved once again he is the master... In one word 2012 is "FABULOUS"....
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November 14, 2009cool movie...great graphics and great eye for details....some scenes were unnecessary but all in all not a bad movie....and plus it makes you think about how you would act or react to the news that the world is coming to an end...recomend it definitely...
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November 14, 2009Its just a movie based upon wt we thing of 2012.
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November 10, 2009This must be a great Movie based on what I have seen on TV, and trailers. It's a must see for me!!!!!
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November 7, 2009Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, & governments. A global cataclysm brings to end of the world & tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.
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