2012: Review #2

Summary:


When a global cataclysm brings the world into chaos, divorced writer Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) starts a race to protect is family.


Cast:


John Cusack: The Thin Red Line, 1408, Con Air, Serendipity
Amanda Peet: The Whole Nine Yards, Something’s Gotta Give
Oliver Platt: Year One, Frost/Nixon, Casanova
Chiwetel Ejiofor: American Gangster, Children of Men
Thandie Newton: RocknRolla, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Chronicles of Riddick
Danny Glover: Lethal Weapon, Saw, The Royal Tenenbaums


Opinion:


This major box office hit cost 260 million dollars and is 158 minutes long. So at roughly 2 million dollars a minute, you’d expect a disastermovie that would let Independance Day pale in comparison. Nothing is less true.
This movie is so unreal thanks to the cliché storyline, technically flawless but totally overused CGI, constant ‘close calls’ (a fuelless plane is going to crash in the sea, when suddenly it turns out that the earth’s crust has moved a couple of thousand miles so that they can crashland safely in a barren environment and be safely rescued within minutes).


The short summary of this film lets you already see how plotless this film is. It’s been a while since I last saw acting as bad as this. And except from the fact that it has cost a fortune to make this movie, a lack of decent acting and a slow-paced, pourly-written storyline are the main cause the movie is such a failure. It is clearly viewable that the director (Roland Emmerich) wants to show you he is A Very Serious Writer and that 2012 is an Important Film About Our Time. Therefore, he tried to mix Independance Day with An Inconvenienth Truth but got something like a Day After Tomorrow gone (Super) bad.
I advise everyone not to spend their money on this movie so that hopefully Hollywood will never try to feed us this shit again. Cause seriously, I have had craps floating around in my toilet that were more appealing than this film.


IMDB’s rating: 6,5/10
Jack’s rating: 3/10

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