2012. What can I say? I understand in disaster movies like these you have to suspend reality, but Roland Emmerich made a more believable movie when he had Will Smith team up with Jeff Goldblum to fight aliens in Independence Day. Which, by the way, thank goodness those alien computers were Mac compatible.
In this latest apocalyptic feature, hometown boy John Cusack plays Jackson Curtis, a no name divorced writer, who finds himself trying to unite his family while out running an exploding Earth. While on the other side of the country Dr. Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Eljiofor) tries to wrangle world leaders, and the super rich in a top secret plan to survive the end of days, while preserving the humanity of the human race on the side.
The story lines are too convoluted, the characters, with the exception of maybe Cusack are one-dimensional, and the dramatic scenes literally bored me to sleep.
As for the special effects, they're good, but they still didn't help make the movie any better. I didn't believe the characters were in danger. Apparentyly everyone in that movie can fly like a Topper Harley, Goose, Ice Man, and Maverick all rolled into one. It was more like watching a nature documentary on steroids.
I didn't feel any real suspense or anticipation until hour eight of the movie, when they drop all the CG effects and start using the water tank sets.
On the good side... Woody Harrelson has a great cameo, and I thought about Zombieland for about five minutes.
Rating: 3/10
I hate to spoil, but I can't help myself. Why would you build the largest boats ever conceived of, in the history of the human race, at the top of the Himalayas? You are going to have to sail those giant ass ships through a mountain range. Not to mention the shipping cost of moving the raw materials up a mountain. 2012. Seriously?
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