A doomsday of repetitions, clichés, coincidences, stupidities and provocations !

Rating: 2/10 (23 November 2011)

Would anybody save (Roland Emmerich) from himself, or from Hollywood? The man has been doing the same subject over and over and over again. Soon he'll make movies about "The end of the world" as fast as (Leonardo DiCaprio) was repeating words in The Aviator (2004)!
The weirdest thing is that he said, once, that he "completed" the "trilogy" of the world's end after Independence Day (1996), Godzilla (1998), and The Day After Tomorrow (2004). He did convince me while saying that he dealt with all the reasons: Aliens' invasion, nuclear-hybrid monster, and climatic disasters. Now, with 2012, it's the world's end again, climatic disasters again, so is it a quatrain or bankruptcy?? I would have forgiven him if only he managed to handle a new side that he missed before. But unfortunately, it looked like an album of his last movies, done with many many faults as well!
This has writing's disasters in a way that makes the movie a doomsday of a script. Mainly an invasion of the Body Snatchers: Anew there is a world ending (all the last 3 movies), someone is warning and nobody listens (The Day After Tomorrow), a widower American president with one daughter (Independence Day), 2 lovers come back to each other (Godzilla), a father sacrifices for his son (s) (The Day After Tomorrow), stupid bureaucrats run the crises (Godzilla), the scene of Air force one leaving the white house on the nick of time (Independence Day), the white house gets destroyed (Independence Day), and the happy end where the survivors gather to look to the daylight, and look forward building a new world (The Day After Tomorrow). In brief, it's clear that the West Germany-born (Emmerich) didn't hear the American proverb "Enough is Enough"!
Add to that a flood of clichés: the lead is running from many exploding volcanoes, yet nothing touches him in anyway. That shot is repeated throughout the movie whether it's the lead or the plane, all the planes, he rides! The lead, after saving the world by closing the door of the new Noah's ark, is dead, then No, he's alive!
Furthermore, an avalanche of coincidences: while going to camping, the lead finds himself accidentally in a governmental special area. The lead finds the radio announcer who he listens to accidentally in the woods. The presidency's bureaucrat read the lead's book, then runs into him, accidentally for sure, 2 times in 2 different continents right in the middle of the world's end. The lead knows the Russian who happens to own the last plane on earth, and he runs into him in Las Vegas. That plane itself crashes in nowhere but the place of transporting the selected people and animals to the ark. The lead, in mountains of snow, meets someone who happens to be working at the ark, imploring him to take his children to it!
Let alone many quakes of stupid points: the hippie announcer dies (because he's crazy!). The American president, who orchestrated the whole scheme of stealing the greatest artworks, and saving exclusively the "richest" humans on earth, chose to die among his people like a captain who doesn't abandon his ship (so noble my foot!). The rich people, who previously paid the very expensive price of their survival, 1 billion euro each, stands begging the rest to enter the ark, and the leaders of the world's superpowers agree in great sympathy (so noble my foot, number 2!). A hose crammed in shields of the ark's door causes the *real* end of the world (Idiocy!). Now, the lead is considered a hero when he fixes what he already caused by being such a clumsy fool (Super Idiocy!!). However, nothing is beyond the moment when the stepfather was killed so randomly just to secure the old husband in his old wife and children's open arms (hysterical melodrama at its Hindiest!).
And it's not complete without being offensive: The big nations didn't apply to the compiled contract, of saving the genetically superior humans. Instead, they chose the rich ones. OK, how that is known? It's easy. Put an Arab with a headband to tell the genetically superior from the rich, where the Arab - naturally - isn't the genetically superior. OH MY GOD, this is a different level of indignity that Hollywood reaches with the Arabs!
(John Cusack) couldn't persuade me as a lead of anything to date. He has no charisma, no wit, he's a perfect bore. I won't go through the rest of the cast. If anyone of them had an atom of self-respect, or right artistic sense, he / she wouldn't be in this in the first place. But they always think that being in flashy CGI celebration dominates success, fame, coolness.. whatever. Only (Oliver Platt) was lucky enough to handle a good written character, and the smart that he is made it believable. He was the sole person here who was disaster-proof I suppose!
I liked the third act, with that idea of new advanced Noah's ark, without it the movie immerses directly in a black hole of unoriginality. The CGI was decent, but I have seen all of that, and all what happens in it, before and in better shape too.
This is euphoric nonsense. It works with children, neophyte viewers, or someone with a desperate need to discharge some negative feelings. What I can't understand though is that how in God's name Godzilla (1998) was nominated for 5 Razzies, and this didn't get any nomination at all??!!