If Mankind Can Survive This Turd, It Can Survive Anything!

Rating: Null/10 (13 September 2015)

From the director of Independence Day, Godzilla & The Day After Tomorrow, 2012 features all the ingredients that one may find in a Roland Emmerich movie; be it the total disregard for science or logic, his obsession with the destruction of the world, nonsensical storyline, annoying characters, near-fatal overdose of visual effects & countless facepalm moments.
Inspired from the 2012 phenomenon that made a bunch of retards actually believe that the world is all set for an imminent apocalypse near the end of the mentioned year, the story of 2012 follows a science-fiction writer who struggles to keep his family safe when a series of global catastrophes threaten the fate of mankind, and covers his attempts to bring his kin to refuge.
Co-written & directed by Roland Emmerich, 2012 is another addition in the long list of brainless blockbusters that he's churned out throughout his filmmaking career. And although most of his works do rank amongst the worst movies ever made, there are still a few that are fun to watch, like Independence Day. However, 2012 simply sets a new benchmark for how dull & stupid a movie can actually get.
The set pieces are grand & digital, and their destruction is what this film relies on to entice its audience. The plot is illogical yet highly predictable, the script sucks and the dialogues are eye-rollingly cheesy, Camera is busy capturing every cataclysmic event this movie has in store, Editing is virtually absent for its 158 minutes of runtime actually feels like eternity. And its background score is loud & irritating for the most part.
The visual effects are all over the place for it's quite impressive in a few sequences but look totally cartoonish in other effects-laden segments. Almost every natural disaster make its way into the final print, and is so much exaggerated that it looks real funny & is eventually made all the more hilarious by the characters caught up in that situation. Coming to the performances, everyone attempts career suicide here but few still manage to survive.
On an overall scale, 2012 is by every means an insult to human intelligence. There's no fun to be had here unlike a few earlier works in Emmerich's filmography and just being able to sit through this turd of a cinema should be considered an achievement in itself. Guaranteed a place amongst the worst things anyone has ever made, 2012 effectively captures the indomitable will of human spirit to survive against all odds for if one can sit through this torture, then one is definitely capable of surviving an apocalypse! Skip it or suffer!