A whole new lev... size, of disaster movies!

Rating: 6/10 (29 March 2010)

I admit, as a kid I loved disaster movies, and I don't know what is it about them, but they are always enjoyable and thrilling and watching building collapse, tornados pick them up etc. was always great fun. Not only for me.
When I first saw the trailer for 2012, I thought "Damn, this will be a good disaster movie! Look at those special effects!" and then I thought that I had similar expectations after seeing previous Emmerich's blockbuster - 10.000 BC, which turned out to be.. eh.. that's not the review. Let's go back to 2012.
So, apart from the effects I saw in the trailer, the cast didn't look bad - John Cusack and Amanda Pett (funny.. I just saw the Identity the night before), Danny Glover, Thandie Newton and... Woody Harrelson. The acting in the movie is decent, but nothing amazing.... only Harelson gives a great performance being also most colorful character of the plot.
As the plot goes, it's Emmerich - so the great Americans are saving the whole world once again, the president is black and everything is ultra-politically-correct while every single piece of the story i surprising and as far from being original as it's possible.
So what is good, you may ask? Well.. the effects! I have to say, no matter what people say about this movie, it might be just heaven for hardcore disaster movies fans. Of course, the CGI is nothing compared to Avatar (it's still perfect though!) and such, but that's not the point. The SIZE is the point. The destructions are amazingly big, perfectly shot with clear, realistic CGI and some scenes are easily breathtaking. And even though I gave the movie a 6, it's basically for Harelson and... the destruction. And still, I wish I had seen it in the cinemas.
Trust me, the disasters in the movies have never been so powerfully huge and enormous yet!