A total disaster

Rating: 5/10 (26 November 2009)

It must be said that it will be hard to top the scenes where L.A. disappears because of the catastrophic events in the thin plot line. If only, someone had decided to put the care that went into the visuals, revising, editing, and maybe writing some good lines. It's possible. As we have seen before in the "Star Wars" films, many other action films, and even some of the many sources of inspiration for this project, there is more to a good film than just a lot of CGI.
Watching John Cusack play action hero is always a thrill, especially when the poor man doesn't have much to say, and we have always appreciated him for being able to speak in more than monosyllables and present the most trivial of events and dialogue in quite a sophisticated manner. He's a thinking actor. In here, he benefits from the fact that we are always distracted by the disaster that is either happening or is about to hit the screen.
It's amusing to see how much could actually fit in "2012" and somehow we were not completely exhausted by the end of the movie. I thought the iceberg was a little too much, but the crowds were happy...
The film is not boring, but it's just a bit too much, after all a thrilling ride is exciting, but how much can we expect from a total disaster? from the end of the world? and did anyone catch how those people got on board. It doesn't give us much to hope for if anything like that ever happens.