2012 (2009)

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	Year of first release: 2009
	Director: Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, Stargate)
	Actors: John Cusack (Being John Malkovich), Thandie Newton (Mission: Impossible II), Chiwetel Ejiofor, Woody Harrelson (Ed-TV), Danny Glover (Leathal Weapon), Oliver Plat (A Time to Kill, Fargo TV-series)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action
	Conditions of visioning: 07.04.2015, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: Scientists discover solar anomalies that will announce a major cataclysm. When things go wrong, divorced unsuccessful writer Jackson Curtis (Cusack) does everything he can to save his family.
Review: A disaster movie of epic proportion that fits well in the filmography of the most American of German directors, surfing on the trendy story of the Mayan calendar that predicted the end of the world for the year 2012. One should watch this movie only for the impressive destruction scenes, because otherwise you can be disappointed. Indeed I appreciate the talent of the director for showing the destruction of cities, a talent largely improved since the famous mock-up of the White House in Independence Day. In 2012 we get to see gigantic volcanoes, entire cities sinking in the ocean or in the ground, kilometer-high tsunamis, all thanks to the magic of digital effects. Around those scenes the scientific credibility is very low (the Earth crust shifting by 2000 kilometers in a matter of hours), the characters development ultra-simplistic (the ex-husband still in love with his wife, the president sacrificing himself, the father not talking to his son, the forgetful scientist, Chinese monks...), like in World War Z the main character is always at the wrong place when a unique event occurs and survives it all, and towards the end the hurdles this guy has to cross are just too much, and the image quality even gets poor during the last half hour in the ships. A half hour too long.
Rating: 3 /10