utter piffle

Rating: 3/10 (12 June 2010)

How can anyone make such a turkey as this? CGI effects are way over the top and the number of "and with a single bound he was free" occasions just make this whole thing laughable. I find it hard to understand how great actors, and there are some in this pile of poo, can get themselves into kitsch fluff like this. It misses out on every level. In spite of the premise there is no tension,excitement or wonder at this movie. Yet there should be - the story is tailor-made for all those things. Emmerich should hang his head in shame. Independence Day was a similar idea - destruction on a grand scale etc, but that was involving and exciting in a way that 2012 never is. I guess everyone took part because they were handsomely rewarded. I bet they still wish that they hadn't. My headline is utter piffle because that is what this awful movie is. And it gets worse the more you see of it!