2012 Review

It's Final Destination on a global scale

WARNING!: MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS

I watched this movie a bit late because of finals (nyeh finished on the second week of finals) but fortunately the movie was worth the wait. Once again Roland Emmerich returned to destroy the world. He destroyed the world with aliens in Independence Day, destroyed NY in Godzilla, and destroyed the world (almost) in The Day After Tomorrow. Now he destroyed the world with a prophetic Mayan calender that ends on 21st December 2012 which marks the end of the world.

The movie had a flair of characters one can attached quickly within the 2.5 hours of the movie run (yeah, it's that long). Once the CG doomsday starts playing, all the ooh-ahhs come out despite the morbid nature of the movie. Too bad some humans (400,000 of them) survived in the end.

Despite all the epic tsunamis, platonic earth shifts, super volcanoes of epic proportion expected from a Hollywood movie, 2012 have some downsides as well. Some parts are way too cliché and predictable. Look! An Aston Martin! Oh noes he's going to hit that AM! Yes he did! NOESS! Worse still several scenes and plots are reminiscence of other disaster movies like The Day After Tomorrow, Deep Impact and the like. Oh yeah did I mention likable characters? Well they all will die in horrendous ways ala Final Destination along with the extras.

All in all, it's a good one-shot movie. I'm not looking forward to watching it again anytime soon. Maybe give me 2-3 days when I return to my hometown to watch it with friends coming back for the semester break.

Yuri: Engine. Start.

Ham: It's been a while since a movie made me go YEAH! OH-HO! and OHSHIT! But some parts are clearly borrowed from previous movies...

Bladder: 2.5 hours?! Are you ******* kidding me?!

Mayan Dude who carved the calender: Dude! I got tired making a calender worth 5,000 years so I stopped at 21/12/2012 before signing up for Facebook. Read the damn facts!