Midly Entertaining Disaster Flick

Rating: 7/10 (23 November 2009)

You used to think, if you seen one disaster flick, you've seen them all, but you'll discover you really haven't.
The movie is about a global cataclysm in 2012, where the earth is slowly destroying itself. Jackson(John Cusack) struggles to save his ex-wife (Amanda Peet), there two kids and her new boyfriend, and get them to safety. While the people in the White House(Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, and Chiwetel Ejiofor, from Talk To Me) are having there own struggle dealing with it.
From director Roland Emmerich, who brought you such epic classics like Stargate(1994), Indepence Day(1996), and The Day After Tommorow(2004). He also did such cinematic travesties known as Godzilla(1998), and 10.000 B.C.(2008). John Cusack and Amanda Peet gave really weak performances, they just did not come off as people believing that this is really happening. Now Glover,Newton,Platt, and Ejiofor gave real Oscar worthy performances. Now the effects where cool for one part,but for the other they looked too cartooned and over the top.
This movie is a reminder that this could happen, and teaches us to have faith in GOD