Once again Roland Emerich destroys our world as we know it! Once again he gets A+ for entertainment value but fails miserably at giving his story any depth. 2012 has been spawned by the idea the world will end in December of that year, this is according to the ancient Mayan Calendar coming to an end at that point. Of course it’s more than likely nothing will happen but if it did happen like this it’s a shame you won’t see it like this, the end of the world never looked so good.
I think the biggest problem for me is how any of the characters in this film are always in the right place at the right time, narrowly escaping almost every natural disaster known to man in a limo, camper and two planes. It’s also shamefully predictable, the story and even the shots; if the roof of the
Then again I loved Independence Day, despite it being over American it was good fun and mostly because I didn’t take it seriously as a young sci-fi geek who watched the xfiles! As a critic it’s a rather shocking movie but you get plenty of bang for your buck (would have looked great in 3D!). Then we get to the characters that might as well be crash test dummies that the director has thrown at earthquake / volcano / tidal wave delete as appropriate! Despite John Cusack being so damn likeable in everything, his everyman is completely lost in separated parent cliché hell!
That’s that then, the end of the world and of course we all pull together to help people as the Director continues to push this ideal humanity. But when the end is shown in this happy go lucky fashion you never really feel the dread that would make sense if it was actually happening. Then again who wants the real emotions of the end of the world?
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