2012 (2009)
John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton, Amanda Peet, Danny Glover ... (see more) , Chiwetel Ejiofor , George Segal , Oliver Platt , Morgan Lily , John Billingsley , Jimi Mistry , Patrick Bauchau , Thomas McCarthy
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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PG-13, 2 hr. 38 min.
Directed by:
Roland Emmerich
Release Date: Nov 13, 2009
DVD Release Date: Mar 02, 2010
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This was good as the previews looked! Wanna watch it again with my bf. Think he would like it too!
really fantastic special efx but this movie lacked originality! take john cusacks character from 1408 and put him in Volcano/ Deep Impact/ and any other natural disaster movie, roll it in to 1 and Tada 2012
What a crock of shit!!! Where's the aliens??? This has already been done before... they just all float away in a boat, didn't they do that in the bible?????? Crap.
Run. Run far away from this disaster of a flick. The plot sucks. The acting is nowhere near the level at which a normal person can tolerate bad acting. But anyone could have predicted this.
The real harm done by this film is the regression of specia... (read more) Run. Run far away from this disaster of a flick. The plot sucks. The acting is nowhere near the level at which a normal person can tolerate bad acting. But anyone could have predicted this.
The real harm done by this film is the regression of special and visual effects seen in the final product. After years of making disaster films, one would think Roland Emmerich would have perfected the genre. Wrong! His best film in this genre is "Independence Day", which also happens to be his first major film. "2012" is just another example of Emmerich's failure to meet, much less surpass the success of his 1996 classic.
worst movie I saw in 2009, possibly of the decade, why, John Cusack, why?
Can someone say "The Day After Tomorrow"? Arguably one of the only movies I can say was solely to created to humor a graphically inclined special effects artist...person...child? Storyline leaves much to be desired, characters are far from captivatin... (read more) Can someone say "The Day After Tomorrow"? Arguably one of the only movies I can say was solely to created to humor a graphically inclined special effects artist...person...child? Storyline leaves much to be desired, characters are far from captivating, and there is hardly any admirable characteristic worth noting in this review. Scenes were buildings are collapsing were cool, but to create such a montage would be, at best, 8 minutes of cinematic skill for a 2 hour and 40 minute sorry excuse for a film.
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Even though this movie's running time of two and a half hours is about one hour too long, there's still some pretty cool disaster stuff on the way.full review
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.full review
Why does Roland Emmerich enjoy killing off humanity?full review
The movie is an undeniable visual spectacle, but just as unequivocally a cheesy, ridiculous story.full review
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
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
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 seen them all.full review
This is fun. 2012 delivers what it promises, and since no sentient being will buy a ticket expecting anything else, it will be, for its audiences, one of the most satisfactory films of the year.full review
2012's narrative is super-banal and so are its special effects.full review
Roland Emmerich has thrown everything imaginable at the screen in this mother (nature) of all destruction flicks.full review
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