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Starring: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet,
Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, Woody Harrelson
Director: Roland Emmerich
Screenwriter: Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser
Genre: Action
Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony)

An epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.

2012 Movie Reviews:

The Montreal Lacordaire Guzzo cinema was one of the many theaters that premiered the movie 2012 . Boasted by the surrounding conspiracy and the wild theories, the year long running trailers were instrumental in bringing a great number of disaster fans out to see this epic, not letting even the cold deter their resolve. After the usual 8 to 10 minutes forced advertisement , the movie started and for many, the most anticipated movie of 2009 was about to commence . With cell phones hushed from minute one for once, an anxious and full theater was finally treated to the feature exploiting the widely popular theme of the moment: the predicted disaster and end of times foretold by the Mayas nearly 5000 years ago, prompt to happen on the 21st of December of the titled year.
Deemed by a few now as “The day after Tomorrow 2” in another perspective, 2012 opens pretty conservatively. Chiwetel Ejiofor plays a scientist who discovers that a super solar flare emanating exotic particles is about to heat up the inside of the earth and we, as a race, have no time left to continue enjoying the frivolities of life.


Our American scientist jumps over to Washington and takes Oliver Platt, playing a White House representative, out of a fund raiser to announce that the world, as we know it, is about to end. From there on, you would think the story would get interesting and that we would like to see in more detail what the government is about to do, the plan of action at work. Instead, we jump to a writer/limo driver Jackson Curtis played by John Cusack and somewhat, for a while, we try to live his life. Since there has to be familial drama to spice things up, we learn that Jack is divorced and has to juggle a hectic schedule of tending to the caprices of a Russian millionaire boss while taking his kids to Yellowstone. As we are called upon to establish a rapport with the lead of the movie, surrounding events, of course, remind us that disaster is pregnant and much expected torment mixed with wide scale misery is about to hit.
The eventual trip to Yellowstone avers fruitful for our limo driver who does not get only the chance to bond more with his alienated kids but discovers odd happenings. While investigating why the park lake has suddenly died up, he is detained by the National Guard for being behind forbidden lines. However, before his release, he makes the acquaintance of Ejiofor who convinces him that all is well and that the presence of the military in a quarantined national park is just routine. Needless to say that our American scientist spawns a few great words about Jackson Curtis’ only published book which sold scarcely, adding that he had a cherished copy in his possession. Suspicious Jack, content to be free, becomes more puzzled when he meets crack pot Woody Harrelson who inspires pretty vexed feelings with his curious questions. Nonetheless, on a second meeting, our “loony” brings our lead actor up to speed on the whole 2012 prophecy and government conspiracy. With events unfolding further, Ejiofor discovers that the time allocated for preparations are less than expected and it is time for politicians, the rich and the celebs to board so called Arks, in an effort to replenish the planet later with a bourgeoisie of stuck up royal diplomats… for the most.
As the planet falls apart gradually, Cusack aspires to save his ex wife and kids, not forgetting his children’s step father/plastic surgeon/rookie pilot from a never ending series of situations fraught with grave danger. Escaping from crumbling California in calculated to the millimeter precision maneuvers, leaving us to ponder how lucky one dysfunctional family could be, their eventual destination, with more perils to come, is China. According to a map charted by nut case Woody Harrelson , this is the country where arks are supposed to be waiting. With the reluctant assistance of his Russian boss in the company of his mistress Tamara and his twin sons, our hero and his entourage manages to get to one of those arks which they all board, some legally, others clandestinely with the help of some Tibetan workers. Of course, along the way, we get to witness Yellowstone erupting into a super Volcano, Hawaii becoming one big lava fest, runways disintegrating only seconds after take off, not once but three times, as our select group make their impossible getaway towards China.
While the whole world succumbs to various calamities, we are asked to intake the idea that repression of the end of days conspiracy was a success. With this in mind, a suddenly conscientious President of the US played by Danny Glover finds it imperative now to announce to the planet that they should get ready to embrace certain death. Too honorable in duty to join the other leaders on the ark, our president is, in due time, washed away by a huge wave and the USS Kennedy as the White House is destroyed. Sharing similar fate is his Italian counterpart in Rome who joins a massive prayer session at Vatican City. Alas, the16th chapel roof caves in and all the worshipers understand that god was right and wrong with Armageddon upon them. It was certainly not only the infields who were paying for their sins.
The finale of 2012 sees us wrestle our eyes open to watch unwarranted and useless ambiguous scenes of Tamara, the Paris Hilton look alike, waiting for her dog to acrobatically jump on the ark as an illegal, a cameo of a running Queen of England rushing to board one of the arks, a despicable Russian millionaire who jumps to his death saving his kids in near slow motion. If that was not enough to bring some compassion to your heart from people you barely got time to know on screen, a torturous 10 minutes of delayed moral dilemmas follows. Clearly there for some feel good moments or time filler, no one will ever know, we are summed human nature in a few seconds and actions. Before long, the three arks surpass the ever rising waters in melodramatic style and we cross to events of a month after the deluge. All is well as our survivors discover Africa has not been affected and is now their new destination to seek new refuge.
To be fair, when the movie ended, the feelings of disappointment lurked. Personally, I was not satisfied but talking to a few other people reinforced my belief that this movie indeed merited only 3 stars on an overall 5 star rating system. If other Roland Emmerich movies such as “Independence Day” had Will Smith to disport us with comedy and “Stargate” had an enticing story with the strong characters of James Spader and Kurt Russell to propel it forward, this one reminded me of the “10000 BC” fiasco. It again counted only on special effects to do the job. John Cusack did his best of course but the personage he played barely attracted sympathy for anyone to shed a tear or identify with.
Despite the mentioned amazing visuals, one would think that disaster itself has enough drama and spectacle on offer to dazzle. However, seeing Jackson Curtis escape catastrophe so many times, it become staggeringly obvious that making some parts of this movie credible was not on the agenda of the writers. In fact, it became so tiring that some of the spectators admitted rooting for his swift demise at some point. Once you get above the absurdity of the super luck factor, the convenient coincidences, there is the conflicting morality this flick tries to thrust upon us. Sometimes, we can save a few chosen, mostly the useless and anybody who has 1 billion euros, to start the human race again. On other times, a pestering scientist will remind us that we are obligated to save the rest of humanity despite the odds staking towards impossibility. And then there is the numerous worthless personages in 2012 that could have been stripped away without consequence to the movie. Thandie Newton is a prime example playing the first daughter of the United States and Ejiofor’s father and his jazz buddy, not forgetting Tamara and her agile dog.
In the end, come to think of it, between the doggy gymnastics certainly there to please those PETA people and the ill-developed characters, the people behind 2012 left us with a lot of internal illogic. May be the point was to impress with falling buildings and huge Tsunamis but this arduous work of cinematography fell short of being riveting. They should have spent much more time providing a decent storyline and develop the various thespian roles accordingly. If they did execute the otherwise poor character development and misplaced contrived dialogue with the same fervor as those effects, we would have something that could easily incrust into our minds. But depicting that guy, in detail, falling from the 150th floor of a torn apart building, from an eagle’s eyes distance, was supposedly more important than giving us credible characters that mattered.