Cinematic extortion comes with lack of originality

Rating: 5/10 (9 December 2009)

This years 2012 was supposed to be thé highlight of the year. Unfortunately for the audience the only thing epic about it was the grandeur of destruction. The movie starts normal, with lots of potential. Then, as it moves on to John Cusack's role Jackson, it becomes some mixture of War of the Worlds and Day after Tomorrow, and Armageddon. Somehow it has become basic principle that the main character in a disaster movie is either divorced, or split up from his girlfriend, and is necessary to find and win this 'true love' blabla back. Furthermore it's the government trying to cover the disaster up, because yeah, that's what governments do: cover things up. It's really a shame that this has to be another one of that kind of movies, because all potential it has flushes down the landfill together with whole continents.
What a shame.