2012: Recycled Doomsday

Rating: 2/10 (17 November 2009)

Wrapped around some awesome special effects is the usual Roland Emmerich offering of cliché piled upon cliché, smart aleck cardboard stock characters and phony sentiment, most of it ripped off from other superior films of the past.
It would be futile to comment critically on the actors' performances in this film since the material they were given to work with is so weak and inadequate that not even Laurence Olivier could have gleaned anything useful to save it.
2012 plays like the writers simply attached the torso of WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE to the shaky arms and legs of THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW and hoped the typical film audience wouldn't notice. The sad fact is that most probably won't.
The only good news is that 2012 has the makings of a great video game or theme park thrill ride since that is essentially all it is already.