A banal End of the World

Rating: 2/10 (28 May 2012)

Considering that the plot of this movie is mostly concerned to the end of the world as we know it, for some strange reason, it feels pretty banal and forgettable.
I mean, the destruction scenes and the special effects are spectacular and all that, but there is just a very little, almost non-existent, emotional connection with the main characters of the story, being most of them flat and clichéd. Despite all the things that happen in the story, I was very hard to me to care about what happened to those characters, and their ultimate fates left me most of the time completely indifferent.
I know that this is pop-corn film, not a deep, psychological drama with an apocalyptic setting, but I guess that this could have been, at least, something way more entertaining, with better characters that somebody could sympathize, not just stereotypes that have been seen many times before.
But I have to admit that the special effects were incredible, being the only reason to watch this film, despite the boring story, the cheesy script and the flat characters.