The literal definition of a movie

Rating: 7/10 (16 January 2020)

2012 is good, but it isn't the best disaster movie out there. Made by Mr. Destruction himself, Roland Emmerich. 2012 asks: What if the Mayan Calendar is accurate and the world WILL end at the titular year? Take an all-star cast, a notable director, a few amazing scenes of raging disasters and some cliched emotional scenes thrown in and you got 2012. Like The Day After Tomorrow, the film follows quite a few story arcs, but the main one is about a not-so-well-known writer named Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) trying to get his family into a huge ship created by the government to ensure that the human race will continue. SPOILER ALERT but also like in Day After, the President (In this case, Danny Glover), dies but this time, he chooses to. Riveting. So, yeah, 2012 was awesome, but not excellent.